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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Patti Gannon 2014 Executive Di $10,000 $0 WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS NETWORK
Douglas Lemire 2017 Executive Dir. $10,000 $0 FLETCHER FARM FOUNDATION INC
Penny Bishop 2014 Secretary $10,000 $0 MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE
Benjamin O'Brien 2013 President $10,000 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Rachael Z Miller 2016 President $10,000 $0 ROZALIA PROJECT
John S Lutz 2017 Vice-Pres $10,000 $0 OAKLAND FOUNDATION
David Pope 2016 Program Dir. $10,000 $0 STOWE STORY LABS
David Pope 2017 Program Dir. $10,000 $0 STOWE STORY LABS
Debra Goodwin 2015 Executive Dir. $9,990 $0 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC
Carol Maroni 2017 Director - 2Nd Vice President $9,980 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Linda Tucker Asst Director 2017 5 Gill Terrace, Ludlow, Vt 05149 $9,976 $0 BLACK RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Ben Pincus 2016 Executive Direc $9,957 $0 AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY INC
Kaitlyn Desautels 2015 Secretary $9,934 $7,886 THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
John Ward 2017 Director - Treasurer $9,930 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Terry Granger 2015 Treasurer $9,914 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Susan Quinn 2014 Secretary $9,875 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Greg Macdonald 2015 Cfo $9,862 $550 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Jane Lee Wolfe 2015 Executive Director $9,856 $0 BOG CHAPEL
Marc Richter 2015 Vice President $9,854 $0 NETWORKS INC
Lauren Groves 2017 Secretary & Treasurer $9,849 $509 TWIN STATE CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC
Norma Segale 2017 Shop Manager $9,849 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC
Kelli Shuttleworth 2016 Treasurer $9,837 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Carolyn Wysocki 2017 Program Director $9,800 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Jay Nichols 2016 Former Director/Instructor $9,782 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
Penny Senesac 2013 Bookkeeper $9,767 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED

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.