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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Leif Goldberg 2015 Executive Director $12,933 $0 HARDWICK COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Madeline Craig 2015 Us Program Coordinator $12,921 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Guiyou Huang 2017 Svpaa/Provost $12,883 $964 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Rachel Kring 2017 Executive Director $12,850 $0 HINESBURG COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC
Steven Clark 2016 Former Ex Director $12,849 $0 COVERED BRIDGE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITIES INC
Susan C Ryan 2016 Past Chief Operating Officer $12,816 $12,292 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Charlie Karparis 2017 Club Manager $12,800 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Carol Maroni 2015 Director - 2Nd Vice President $12,770 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Matt Schade 2015 Trustee $12,767 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Peter Kim 2015 Club Director $12,750 $0 CAPITAL SOCCER CLUB INC
Carmen Vandegriek 2014 President $12,740 $0 SCHOOL STREET MONTESSORI
Carmen Vandegriek 2013 President $12,740 $0 SCHOOL STREET MONTESSORI
Elaina Noblet 2016 Trustee $12,727 $0 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Jayn A Stewart 2013 President $12,640 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Marion Posner 2017 Shelter Director $12,616 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Jay Craven 2015 Creative Dir $12,615 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Allan Heath 2014 Director $12,569 $0 GRANITE CITY HOUSING INC
Sharon Birkheimer Rooker 2016 Executive Direc $12,544 $0 HOME BUILERS & REMODELERS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN VERMONT
Linda Tucker Asst Director 2013 5 Gill Terrace, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $12,527 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Terrence Youk 2013 President / Treasurer $12,500 $0 FOCUS ON FILM
Carmen Vandegriek 2015 President $12,495 $0 SCHOOL STREET MONTESSORI
Linda Tucker Asst Director 2016 5 Gill Terrace, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $12,474 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Susan C Ryan 2015 Coo $12,438 $17,738 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Nina Meyerhof 2013 President $12,400 $0 CHILDREN OF THE EARTH INC
Kathy Clark 2014 Studio Manag $12,388 $0 MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL

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.