Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellen Serra | 2014 | Director - Adult Day Services | $13,846 | $0 | OXBOW SENIOR INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM INC |
| Margaret Gundersen | 2015 | President | $13,846 | $0 | FAIREWINDS ENERGY EDUCATION CORP |
| Deborah Ingram | 2013 | Execuitive D | $13,831 | $28,094 | VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION INC |
| Rebecca Yahm | 2014 | Secretary | $13,830 | $0 | PACEM SCHOOL INC |
| Tom Murphy | 2014 | Natl Outreach Coord-Left In 2014 | $13,800 | $0 | VOTE HEMP |
| Sabrina Brown | 2016 | Administration | $13,750 | $0 | INTERPLAY JAZZ & ARTS INC |
| Adam Pearce | 2014 | Officer | $13,668 | $0 | LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC |
| Alex Stradling | 2014 | Executive Director | $13,634 | $0 | FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC |
| Sheila Bailey | 2014 | Executive Director Interim | $13,628 | $0 | CENTRAL VERMONT PREGNANCY SERVICES INC |
| Rebecca Levine | 2016 | Assistant Chief | $13,618 | $0 | POWNAL RESCUE SQUAD INCORPORATED |
| Maria Graham | 2013 | Co-Executive Director | $13,514 | $0 | JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC |
| Andrea Ward | 2013 | Co-Executive Director | $13,514 | $0 | JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC |
| Gordon M Cook Jr | 2017 | Past President | $13,514 | $0 | HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA |
| William Polk | 2014 | Assistant Treasurer (Non-Voting) | $13,500 | $0 | PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC |
| Benjamin Kinsley | 2016 | Executive Dir. | $13,477 | $298 | CAMPAIGN FOR VERMONT PROSPERITY INC |
| Avram Patt | 2015 | Interim Ed/ | $13,475 | $0 | VERMONT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY |
| Steve Greenslet | 2016 | Commander | $13,442 | $0 | AMERICAN LEGION |
| Johannes Wheeldon | 2015 | Former Ex. Dir. | $13,414 | $0 | COMMUNITY JUSTICE NETWORK OF VERMONT |
| Milton Willis Jr | 2015 | Dept Service Of | $13,413 | $1,988 | AMERICAN LEGION |
| William Amell | 2013 | President | $13,412 | $0 | EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC |
| Larry Gordon | 2017 | Artistic Director | $13,400 | $0 | VILLAGE HARMONY |
| Kathy Clark | 2013 | Studio Manager | $13,374 | $0 | MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL |
| Christine Everett | 2017 | Director | $13,369 | $0 | MOUNTAIN RIVER SCHOOL LTD |
| Leonard Stell | 2015 | Treasurer/Director | $13,350 | $0 | MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC |
| George Pearlman | 2014 | Executive Dir. | $13,333 | $14,986 | VERMONT STUDIO CENTER 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.
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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.