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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
George Pearlman 2014 Executive Dir. $13,333 $14,986 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Becky Jensen 2013 Director $13,312 $0 PEACHAM LIBRARY
Steven Smith Md 2014 Trustee $13,308 $104,187 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Rev Msgr Peter Routhier 2016 Board Member $13,292 $0 VERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
Richard Johnsen 2016 Executive Director $13,275 $0 POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY
Shannon Swan 2017 Past Executive Director $13,266 $0 CONNECTING HOPE INC
Wanda Bezio 2014 Interim Executive Director $13,265 $1,280 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Mark Wolinsky 2015 Administrator $13,260 $0 VERMONT GOLF ASSOCIATION INC
Diana Ferguson 2017 Former Ex. D $13,248 $0 ESSEX CHIPS INC
Tara Holt 2015 Assistant Executive Director $13,218 $0 ST JOHNSBURY WORKS
Noah Levinson 2014 President $13,200 $0 CALCUTTA KIDS INC
Maria Graham 2014 Co-Executive Director $13,200 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Barry M Ross 2015 Treasurer $13,200 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Barry M Ross 2014 Treasurer $13,200 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Noah Levinson 2015 President $13,200 $0 CALCUTTA KIDS INC
Stephanie Keep 2017 Non Voting Member, Administrator $13,148 $0 GARLAND SCHOOL INC
Robert Lake 2013 Ceo $13,077 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CREDIT UNION
James Nagle 2014 President/Treas $13,000 $0 MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE
Brian Gallagher 2013 Vice President/General Manager $13,000 $0 NEW ENGLAND COLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE INC
Pam Blum 2014 Treasurer $13,000 $0 DRAGONHEART VERMONT INCORPORATED
Mark Wolinsky 2014 Administrator $13,000 $0 VERMONT GOLF ASSOCIATION INC
Brian Gallagher 2014 Vice President/General Man $13,000 $0 NEW ENGLAND COLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE INC
Andrea Cohen 2014 Executive Dir. $13,000 $1,560 VERMONT BUSINESSESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESRCH & EDCTN FDTN
Frederick Haas 2014 Director $12,994 $0 INTERPLAY JAZZ & ARTS INC
Jenna Sonneborn 2015 Vice President $12,974 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD 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.