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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robert Gould 2015 Vp Finance $9,765 $559 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Anika Klem 2014 Director You $9,755 $0 EARTHWALK VERMONT
Alison Howe 2016 Secretary $9,749 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Dr Robert Althoff 2014 Executive Vice-President $9,746 $1,364 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Dr Robert Althoff 2016 Executive Vice-President $9,746 $1,452 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Dr Robert Althoff 2015 Executive Vice-President $9,746 $1,394 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Jaime L Bedard 2015 Executive Dir. $9,743 $0 JUST BASICS INC
Andre Demers 2016 Secretary $9,738 $0 FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
Rebecca Yahm 2016 Secretary $9,699 $0 PACEM SCHOOL INC
Brittney Bemis 2017 Former Program Director $9,698 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Ann Zalinger 2013 Director & Shop Mgr $9,694 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC
Nancy Kaplan 2014 Executive Director $9,692 $0 CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC
Thomas Bailey 2016 Director $9,650 $668 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Michael Schirling 2017 Ex-Officio $9,615 $600 BTVIGNITE INC
Megan Cannella 2017 Treasurer $9,600 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Charlie Magnant 2014 Quarter Master Adjuant $9,600 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
James H Douglas 2015 Interim Exec $9,600 $0 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Kimberly Ingraham 2015 Secretary $9,600 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Crystal Lampman 2015 Secretary $9,599 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Jane Lee Wolfe 2016 Executive Director $9,588 $0 BOG CHAPEL
Ken Hoeppner 2016 Director $9,580 $11 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Courtney Greene 2014 Director $9,572 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Don Worth 2015 Director $9,570 $21 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
James A Fahey 2015 Senior Vp Program Services $9,549 $19,414 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Paul Irish 2014 Executive Director $9,547 $300 VT INFO TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING

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.