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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Claire Wallace 2013 President $11,500 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS INC
John Scagliotti 2013 Program Director $11,500 $829 KOPKIND COLONY
Susan Bokelberg 2015 Assist.Teacher $11,481 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Harold Mitchell 2017 Resident Dir $11,450 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Sherry Mitchell 2017 Executive Di $11,450 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Shari Bergquist 2017 Chief Operating Officer $11,440 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES PRACTICE GROUP
Shari Bergquist 2016 Chief Operating Officer $11,440 $0 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES PRACTICE GROUP
Robert Gibson 2013 V.P. - Marke $11,394 $0 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Peter Schumann 2017 President $11,375 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Mark Woodward 2015 Director - Secretary $11,370 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Michael J Bonfanti 2015 Senior Vp Information Technology $11,367 $27,243 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Tina M Sharby 2015 Chief Human Resource Officer $11,366 $6,013 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Elin A Treanor 2013 Cfo & Coo $11,357 $13,758 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Marilyn Binagi-Brault 2015 Former Exec Dir $11,312 $0 BARRE AREA SENIOR CENTER INC
Tina M Sharby 2016 Chief Human Resources Officer $11,294 $5,944 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Melanie Sheehan 2016 Executive Director $11,292 $0 OTTAUQUECHEE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP
Anne Ward Med 2017 Executive Di $11,289 $0 SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS TEAM OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
Thaddeus Cooke 2017 Treasurer $11,273 $0 NEW MORAN INC
Erick Crockenberg 2017 Vice President $11,273 $0 NEW MORAN INC
Doris Gallipo 2016 Trustee $11,272 $0 SPECIALIZED COMMUNITY CARE
Diane Ravenscroft 2014 Interim Executive Director $11,265 $25 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Aida Luce-Reed 2014 Vice President $11,254 $0 NETWORKS INC
Stephen Fleming 2016 President $11,250 $0 VERGENNES AREA RESCUE SQUAD
Lawrence G Jensen 2015 President & Ceo $11,250 $0 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Ben Pincus 2015 Executive Direc $11,250 $0 AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY 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.