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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Milton Willis Jr 2016 Dept Service Of $14,593 $1,988 AMERICAN LEGION
John G Wood Jr 2015 Secretarytreasurer $14,592 $0 NEW ENGLAND DIVISION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE
Theresa Murray-Clasen 2014 Executive Dir. $14,585 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Marc Richter 2013 President $14,578 $0 NETWORKS INC
Benjamin K Falk 2016 Secretary/Co $14,549 $0 WHOLE SYSTEMS HEALTH
Jeff Lewis 2014 Former Executive Director $14,507 $0 THE BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORPORATION
John O'Farrell 2014 Executive Director $14,472 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
Kristen M Andrews 2015 Executive Dir. $14,465 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Walter Otten 2017 Vice President $14,400 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Noah Levinson 2017 President $14,400 $0 CALCUTTA KIDS INC
Laury Tarver 2016 Business Manager $14,400 $0 AZIMUTH COUNSELING AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC
Noah Levinson 2016 President $14,400 $0 CALCUTTA KIDS INC
Laury Tarver 2015 Business Manager $14,400 $0 AZIMUTH COUNSELING AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES INC
Laurie Garrison 2016 Executive Direc $14,385 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Germaine Romano 2013 Business Manager $14,375 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Laura Mccaffrey 2017 Faculty Rep $14,348 $0 PACEM SCHOOL INC
Claudia Bookspan 2017 Trustee $14,347 $0 LORE F LEDER FOUNDATION TRUST
Alan Bookspan 2017 Trustee $14,347 $0 LORE F LEDER FOUNDATION TRUST
Brad Reed 2014 Secretary/Treasurer $14,325 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Peter Kim 2013 Club Director $14,250 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
George Cook 2013 Club Director $14,250 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Rene Meilleur 2014 President $14,248 $0 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
Kathy Wheatley 2016 Programmer $14,247 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY TV
Veronica Freeman 2013 Executive Dir. $14,208 $0 WESTMINSTER CARES INCORPORATED
Emma P Burke 2015 Secretary/Trea $14,203 $0 HIS INDEPENDENCE PROJECT 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.