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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Georgia Brehm Executive Director 2016 15 Meadow St, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $19,002 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Julia O'Donnell 2014 Director - Adult Day Services $19,000 $0 OXBOW SENIOR INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM INC
John Scagliotti 2014 Program Director $19,000 $1,185 KOPKIND COLONY
Ellen Connett 2015 Secretary/Treasurer $19,000 $0 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDIES PROJECT INC
Robert Mckay 2014 Faculty Rep $18,951 $0 THE INITIATIVE A VERMONT WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL
David Savidge 2017 Former Ex Director $18,938 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Richard Howe 2015 Production Director $18,932 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Erica K Falk 2015 President/Co $18,846 $0 WHOLE SYSTEMS HEALTH
William Polk 2015 Assistant Treasurer (Non-Voting) $18,750 $0 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Laurie Marcoux 2017 Interim Executive Director $18,717 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
Brystol Rayno 2014 Director - Staff $18,702 $0 THE CHILD CARE CENTER IN NORWICH INC
Barbara Ann Cochran 2016 Director $18,700 $0 COCHRANS SKI AREA INC
Rene Meilleur 2015 Past President $18,642 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Daniel Garcia-Galili 2016 Trustee $18,600 $9,519 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Susan Sawyer Director 2016 & Educator $18,571 $361 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
James Hathaway 2015 Ceo $18,535 $278 MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF VERMONT
Ed Oeschlie 2014 Vice President $18,503 $0 NETWORKS INC
Leif Goldberg 2016 Executive Director $18,489 $0 HARDWICK COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Rev David J Theroux Sse 2014 Trustee $18,480 $0 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Theodore Rappahahn 2017 Director Of Finance $18,476 $3,601 BROC-COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT
Donald Wright 2013 Exec Director $18,474 $0 VERY MERRY THEATRE
Holly Morehouse 2013 Executive Director - 10/1/13 To 6/30/14 $18,461 $554 VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC
Linda Dyer 2017 Founder $18,455 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Paul Faenza 2016 Executive Dir. $18,415 $0 BLACK RIVER AREA COMMUNITY COALITION CORPORATION
Frederick Haas 2016 Director $18,408 $0 INTERPLAY JAZZ & ARTS 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.