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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kathy Keating 2013 Vice President $10,281 $0 NETWORKS INC
Erik Nielsen 2014 Secretary $10,280 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Carol Maroni 2016 Director - 2Nd Vice President $10,280 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Don Miller 2016 President $10,260 $0 BURLINGTON BICYCLE PROJECT CORP
Kathleen M Tellez 2013 3-Day Asst Teac $10,248 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Alecia Armstrong 2013 Executive Director $10,231 $0 TURNING POINT RECOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD VERMONT
Donald Tetreault 2017 Adjutant $10,200 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Jose Rincon 2017 Executive Di $10,192 $0 LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY
Peter Schumann 2015 President $10,183 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Michael Connett Jd 2015 Executive Director $10,168 $0 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDIES PROJECT INC
Bentham Paulos 2016 Director / Consultant $10,141 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
Erik Nielsen 2013 Secretary $10,140 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Jodi Wheeler 2015 Executive Director $10,140 $0 HELPING OTHER PEOPLE EVERYDAY INC
Elka Schumann 2014 Secretary $10,119 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Peter Schumann 2014 President $10,119 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Kelly Dougherty 2014 Executive Director $10,086 $860 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Terry Granger 2017 Treasurer $10,071 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Terry Granger 2016 Treasurer $10,071 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
John Ward 2016 Director - Treasurer $10,030 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Stephen Wise Tulin Esq 2017 Secy-Treas $10,000 $0 MARION E KENWORTHY-SARAH H SWIFT FDN INC
David Pope 2017 Program Dir. $10,000 $0 STOWE STORY LABS
David Riegel 2017 Executive Dir. $10,000 $0 VERMONT FOUNDATION OF RECOVERY INC
Conrad Reining 2017 Manager $10,000 $0 FRANK AND BRINNA SANDS FOUNDATION
Patti Gannon 2014 Executive Di $10,000 $0 WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS NETWORK
Penny Bishop 2014 Secretary $10,000 $0 MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE

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.