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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Rebecca Elgood 2014 Executive Direc $16,020 $0 MONTEVERDI MUSIC SCHOOL INC
Michael Raymond 2013 Bus & Fin Dir $16,007 $0 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
Rebecca Elgood 2013 Executive Direc $16,000 $0 MONTEVERDI MUSIC SCHOOL INC
Patricia Hornbeck 2013 House Direct $16,000 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY HOUSE INC
Maria D Allen 2015 Board Chair $15,974 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Kelly Carlin 2015 Nondirector Board Secretary $15,930 $0 LANDMARK TRUST USA INC
Richard Johnsen 2014 Executive Director $15,920 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
Collin Kimball 2016 Programming Coordinator $15,919 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Linda Treash 2016 Executive Director $15,900 $0 BARN ARTS CENTER FOR THE ARTS COMPANY
Melanie Riddle 2016 Executive Di $15,879 $0 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSN INC
Jane Alsofrom 2015 Program Coor $15,782 $0 IMAGING THE WORLD CORP
Milton Willis Jr 2014 Dept Service Of $15,773 $1,988 AMERICAN LEGION
Christine Decker 2015 Actress $15,764 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Tim Watkins 2017 Executive Director $15,763 $0 VERMONT JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING COMMITTEE
Sue Minter 2017 President & Ceo (Nov - Dec) $15,755 $1,698 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Kathy Clark 2016 Director $15,754 $0 MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL
Ronald Sanchez 2016 Trustee (Stepped Down 1/2017) $15,720 $0 HEARTBEET LIFESHARING CORPORATION
Marcia Levison 2016 Board/Officer $15,720 $0 RICHMOND FOOD SHELF AND THRIFT STORE
Chic Mcmaster 2014 Director $15,654 $0 WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC
Barbara Nelson 2013 Executive Dir. $15,642 $0 MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL
Shannon Trigos 2017 Executive Director $15,637 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT PREGNANCY SERVICES INC
Brian Bashaw 2015 Staff $15,620 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Kaitlyn Daniels 2015 Trustee (Until Dec. 2015) $15,616 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Laurie Marcoux 2013 Acting Executive Director $15,600 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
Richard S Smith 2015 Trustee $15,600 $0 SILAS L GRIFFITH TRUST

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.