Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

By default, this table shows results from all filings. Select a year to narrow your search.

Name Year Title Compensation Other Compensation Organization
Julie Brophy 2015 Director $20,494 $0 JOURNEY NORTH
Penny Bishop 2017 Secretary $20,400 $0 MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE
Helen Riehle 2015 Executive Director $20,352 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INCORPORATED
Lexi Shear 2016 Executive Di $20,325 $0 PACEM SCHOOL INC
Chic Mcmaster 2015 Director $20,308 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Anera Foco 2014 Interim Executive Director $20,305 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Lizabeth Antonoff 2013 Director $20,280 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC
Chris Runcie Chair 2014 & Educator $20,277 $379 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Crystal Lampman 2014 Secretary/Treasurer $20,271 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Donna Dawson 2013 Asst Director $20,260 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Carolyn White 2013 Director $20,212 $3,809 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENTER
Patricia Nowlan 2017 Chair/Director $20,210 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Mark W Mcelroy 2016 Director $20,200 $0 CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ORGANIZATIONS INC
Lisa Frost 2017 Teacher $20,186 $0 RIVER ROCK SCHOOL INC
John Dyer 2016 Head Coach $20,160 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Martha Mclafferty 2015 Executive Director $20,160 $0 HARTFORD COMMUNITY RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER
Carolyn Ashby 2013 Gallery Manager $20,152 $0 BRISTOL FRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC
Maxine Neal 2016 Executive Di $20,131 $0 LAMOILLE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CORP
Richard Howe 2014 Production Director $20,084 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Richard Brockway 2015 Treasurer $20,075 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
Richard Brockway 2013 Treasurer $20,050 $0 VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION
Georgia Brehm Executive Director 2013 15 Meadow St, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $20,046 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Michael Friedman Nd 2016 Exec. Dir./Pres $20,000 $0 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RESTORATIVE MEDICINE INC
Patti Gannon 2013 Executive Di $20,000 $0 WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS NETWORK
Michael Friedman Nd 2017 Exec. Dir./Pres $20,000 $0 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RESTORATIVE MEDICINE INC

About this tool

As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.

Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

See something interesting? Want access to this data? Let us know!

About the data

To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.

Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.

In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.

In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.