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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Friedman Nd 2017 Exec. Dir./Pres $20,000 $0 ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RESTORATIVE MEDICINE INC
Jonathan Gregg 2017 $20,000 $0 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Jay Craven 2016 Creative Dir $20,000 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Ann Zalinger 2015 Director & Shop Mgr $20,000 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC
Darin Muzzy 2016 1St V. Commander $19,981 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Barbara Ann Cochran 2013 Director $19,975 $0 COCHRANS SKI AREA INC
Richard Johnsen 2017 Executive Director $19,915 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
Janet Hunt 2016 Executive Director $19,908 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF AREA AGENCIES ON AGING INC
Jan L Hubbard 2016 Gallery Manager $19,904 $0 BRISTOL FRIENDS OF THE ARTS INC
Jane Alsofrom 2016 Program Coor $19,808 $0 IMAGING THE WORLD CORP
Barbara Ann Cochran 2014 Director $19,800 $0 COCHRANS SKI AREA INC
Amy-Jo Morse 2014 Finance Director $19,794 $0 ORLEANS-ESSEX VNA & HOSPICE INC
Dr Richard Ohara 2014 Director $19,793 $0 UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
Erica K Falk 2016 President/Co $19,789 $0 WHOLE SYSTEMS HEALTH
Meg Scherbatskoy 2016 Director $19,763 $0 THE INITIATIVE A VERMONT WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL
Pat Cassidy 2016 Co Operations Supervisor $19,691 $3,544 WHITE RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Carol Lighthall 2016 E.D. As Of S $19,690 $175 COMMUNITY CAPITAL OF VERMONT INC
Emily Boedecker 2017 E.D. Until 3 $19,682 $197 LOCAL MOTION INC
Judy Brown 2014 Director $19,670 $0 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Elizabeth Reid 2017 Co Director $19,650 $0 CAMP THORPE INC
John Dyer 2015 Head Coach $19,650 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Stephanie Lockhart 2017 Exec Dir $19,608 $0 CENTER FOR AMERICAS FIRST HORSE
Sarah Gerdes 2015 Manager/Steward $19,604 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Samantha Farrell Schmitt 2014 Teacher $19,582 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Justin Seguin 2015 President/Em $19,556 $0 FIRST BRANCH AMBULANCE SERVICE 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.