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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
George Cook 2014 Club Director $17,550 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Maria Graham 2016 Executive Director/President $17,542 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Penny Bishop 2015 Secretary $17,500 $0 MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE
Lucille Mccullough 2016 Dir @ Lrge & $17,500 $0 CATAMOUNT OUTDOOR FAMILY CENTER NON-PROFIT INC
Havah Armstrong-Walther 2016 Executive Director As Of 7/18/16 $17,451 $0 SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY
H Gail Wolf 2014 Outgoing Executive Director $17,436 $17,436 DORSET VILLAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
Cindy Lavender 2013 Vice President $17,429 $0 SCHOOL STREET MONTESSORI
Tom Kearns 2016 Studio Manager $17,426 $0 CARVING STUDIO AND SCULPTURE CENTER
Maria D Allen 2016 Board Chair $17,376 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Kelly Frederick 2017 Executive Director $17,339 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Jennifer Straub 2017 President $17,308 $0 THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE INC
Andrea Cohen 2015 Executive Dir. $17,273 $332 VERMONT BUSINESSESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESRCH & EDCTN FDTN
Scarlett Clark 2017 Director $17,269 $0 ALL BREED RESCUE INC
Kristine Hutchin 2015 Left Dec 2015 $17,247 $8,765 LAKE CHAMPLAIN WALDORF SCHOOL
Chris Runcie Chair 2013 & Educator $17,222 $326 FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED
Elizabeth Johnson 2013 Director $17,202 $0 KIDSPLAYCE A CHILDRENS CENTER FOR SOUTH VERMONT
Linda Elbow 2015 Treasurer $17,200 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Linda Elbow 2017 Treasurer $17,200 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Linda Elbow 2016 Treasurer $17,200 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Heather Morris 2014 Executive Dir. $17,195 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN PERFORMING ARTS INC
Jane Rodd 2015 Former Executive Director $17,150 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Linda Elbow 2013 Treasurer $17,136 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Kevin Romano 2016 Rescue Chief $17,056 $260 CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC
Darin Muzzy 2017 1St V. Commander $17,025 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
John Scagliotti 2016 Program Director $17,000 $3,773 KOPKIND COLONY

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.