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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amy Yeager Geier 2014 Term Trustee $15,000 $0 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Nance Shaw 2014 Executive Di $15,000 $0 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSN INC
Bernard M Bandman Phd 2017 Executive Direc $15,000 $0 INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL HUMANISM INC
Cathy Palmer Md 2015 Trustee,Pres Cvmc Med Staff $15,000 $42,497 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Peter Rohloff 2016 Chief Medical Officer $15,000 $0 WUQU KAWOQ SA
Barry M Ross 2016 Treasurer $15,000 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Maria D Allen 2013 Board Chair $14,990 $0 NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL
Tim Watkins 2013 Executive Director $14,976 $0 VERMONT JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING COMMITTEE
Tim Watkins 2015 Executive Director $14,976 $0 VERMONT JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING COMMITTEE
Tim Watkins 2014 Executive Director $14,976 $0 VERMONT JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING COMMITTEE
Jody Woos 2013 Executive Director $14,950 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
Lucille Mccullough 2017 Dir @ Lrge & $14,893 $0 CATAMOUNT OUTDOOR FAMILY CENTER NON-PROFIT INC
Maria Graham 2015 Executive Director/President $14,885 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Ann Smith 2015 Executive Dir. $14,862 $892 FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INCORPORATED
John O'Farrell 2013 Executive Director $14,853 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
Jennifer Poehlmann 2017 Exec Director $14,823 $4,826 VERMONT CHILDREN S ALLIANCE INC
Jenna Sonneborn 2016 Vice President $14,815 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Andy Shapiro 2014 Consultant $14,810 $0 VERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INCORPORATED
Paul Gambill 2015 Executive Dir. $14,808 $0 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC
Allan Heath 2017 Director $14,773 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Barbara Nelson 2015 Exec Dir/Tre $14,742 $0 MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL
Matt Schade 2014 Trustee $14,742 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Jenna Sonneborn 2017 Vice President $14,730 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Jay Copping 2013 Former Pres. $14,637 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Mike Frisbie 2016 Executive Dir. $14,604 $0 KIDS REHABGYM 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.