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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kathleen Burk 2016 Director $11,984 $0 ASSOCIATION FOR CORE TEXTS AND COURSES
Steve Greenslet 2013 Commander $11,962 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Dave Wyman 2015 Captain $11,942 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Nancy Rowden Brock As Of Dec 2014 2014 V.P. - Finan $11,872 $0 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Rebecca Yahm 2015 Secretary $11,865 $0 PACEM SCHOOL INC
Elizabeth Ryder 2015 International Placement Coordinator $11,834 $0 VOLUNTEERS FOR PEACE INC
Linda Tucker Asst Director 2015 5 Gill Terrace, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $11,810 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Steven Smith Md 2013 Trustee $11,800 $61,091 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Elizabeth Chase 2014 Manager $11,800 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Sherri Hermanowski 2016 Vice President $11,792 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Diane Ravenscroft 2013 Former Co-Ex $11,771 $17 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Andrea Ward 2014 Co-Executive Director $11,760 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Mark Wolinsky 2013 Administrator $11,700 $0 VERMONT GOLF ASSOCIATION INC
Renee A Swain 2014 Ex. Dir. $11,700 $0 UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC
Daniel Hecht 2016 Executive Di $11,700 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION
Susan Hammond 2017 Executive Director/Board Secretary $11,631 $6,339 WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC
Jennie Davis 2014 Interim Executive Director $11,620 $1,273 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Julie Payne 2014 Key Employee $11,604 $0 COMMUNITY JUSTICE NETWORK OF VERMONT
Linda Olson 2017 Vice President $11,600 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Pamela Cubbage 2013 Adm Asst To Bd $11,570 $0 PUTNEY CARES INC
Linda Tucker Asst Director 2014 5 Gill Terrace, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $11,550 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Adam P Harrington 2015 President $11,550 $0 JILL E HARRINGTON HANZALIK MEMORIAL FUND INC
Sarah Rooker 2015 Director $11,550 $0 FLOW OF HISTORY INC
Thomas Bailey 2015 Director - President $11,545 $668 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Brad Johanson 2015 Board/Editor $11,526 $0 BRIGHT BLUE 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.