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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Don Myers 2017 Quartermaster $18,400 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Don Myers 2016 Quartermaster $18,400 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Ronald Sanchez 2015 Trustee $18,396 $7,329 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Krista Hoffsis 2017 Secretary & Program Coordinator $18,340 $0 LEWIS CREEK WATER SHED ASSOCIATION
Melissa Ball 2017 President $18,324 $0 PROJECT PEARL
Jacqueline Fischer 2015 Executive Director $18,304 $549 OTTAUQUECHEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP
L Paul Irish 2016 Executive Director $18,294 $0 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
Emily Bridges 2015 Teacher $18,274 $0 QUARRY HILL SCHOOL INC
Kelly Cochrane-Collar 2017 Executive Dir. $18,267 $0 VERMONT SOCIETY OF LAND SURVEYORS INC
Karen Dillon 2017 Executive Director $18,262 $0 FOCUS ON FILM
Jenevieve Johnson 2015 Executive Vice President $18,231 $0 SPRINGFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Christy Mitchell 2014 Executive Dir. $18,230 $0 GENERATOR INC
Don Myers 2013 Quartermaster $18,200 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
William Riley 2017 Vice President $18,200 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Don Myers 2015 Quartermaster $18,200 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Sandra Macleod 2014 Executive Director $18,176 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Barbara Hatch 2013 Executive Director (Part Yr) $18,152 $0 ST JOHNSBURY WORKS
Susan Sawyer Trustee 2014 & Educator $18,143 $334 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Jessica Schmidt 2016 Executive Director $18,136 $0 ORANGE COUNTY DIVERSION PROGRAM
Cara Croteau 2013 Past Director $18,117 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT PREGNANCY SERVICES INC
Matt Schade 2016 Trustee $18,116 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Briana Howard 2017 Director $18,105 $0 GREATER NORTHFIELD SENIOR CITIZENS INC
Carolyn Munno 2014 Business Man $18,102 $0 EARTHWALK VERMONT
Larry J Gammon 2013 President & Ceo $18,082 $82,020 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Robert Donnelly 2015 Grand Secretary $18,047 $0 FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF VERMONT

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.