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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patricia Cuyler 2017 Administrator $14,200 $0 VILLAGE HARMONY
Danielle Bombardier 2017 Trustee $14,193 $4,682 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECT WORKERS 300 HEALTH & WELFARE TR
Milton Willis Jr 2013 Dept Service Of $14,160 $1,999 AMERICAN LEGION
Steve Greenslet 2017 Commander $14,142 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Soovin Kim 2016 Co-Artistic Director $14,125 $0 LAKE CHAMPLAIN CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL
David A Otterman Esq 2017 Trustee $14,095 $0 RONALD J YORK SCHOLARSHIP FUND
Clare Cole 2017 Clerk/Director $14,075 $0 SWORD & SPOON WORKSHOP INC
Kathleen M Tellez 2014 3-Day Asst Teac $14,056 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
John Bride 2017 Treasurer $14,040 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Beatrice Birch 2015 President $14,040 $0 INNER FIRE
John Bride 2014 Treasurer $14,040 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
John Bride 2015 Treasurer $14,040 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
John Bride 2016 Treasurer $14,040 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Darby Gorham 2015 Bookkeeper/Office Assistant $14,031 $0 CARVING STUDIO AND SCULPTURE CENTER
Katherine L Coppock 2017 President $14,000 $0 OAKLAND FOUNDATION
John Scagliotti 2015 Program Director $14,000 $659 KOPKIND COLONY
George Joey Powers Iii 2013 Staff $13,985 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
William Amell 2015 Former Pres. $13,961 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Robert Stpierre 2015 Finance Offi $13,946 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Nicolas Ellis 2016 President/Ceo $13,937 $0 MEDLIFE
Paul Irish 2015 Executive Director $13,900 $0 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING
George Pearlman 2016 $13,866 $7,879 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Ashley Chevalier 2017 Secretary $13,865 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Anthony E Morgan 2013 Executive Dir. $13,860 $0 PARK STREET HEALTHSHARE INC
Marcia Levison 2014 Board/Officer $13,854 $0 RICHMOND FOOD SHELF AND THRIFT STORE

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.