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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Melanie Riddle 2015 Executive Di $9,158 $0 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSN INC
Wendy Loomis 2017 Exec Director $9,153 $1,563 VERMONT CHILDREN S ALLIANCE INC
Andy Shapiro 2016 Dir. Of Science $9,144 $0 VERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INCORPORATED
Seth Gabriel 2017 Director $9,125 $0 NJTL OF BENNINGTON VT
Sandy Clavelle 2013 Chair $9,125 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Derek Coleman 2017 Operations, Bod Vice President $9,125 $0 GLOBAL RESPONSE MANAGEMENT INC
Sabrina Brown 2013 Administration $9,107 $0 INTERPLAY JAZZ & ARTS INC
Lawrence Bailey 2013 Finance Off $9,100 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Nancy Shaw 2017 Co-Exe Direc $9,048 $0 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSN INC
Jennifer Straub 2016 President $9,040 $0 THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE INC
Marty Irion 2016 Executive Di $9,032 $0 ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Bernard M Bandman Phd 2014 Executive Direc $9,000 $0 INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL HUMANISM INC
Ty Rolland 2013 Chief $8,983 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Chase Ackerman 2015 Vice Pres/Em $8,951 $0 FIRST BRANCH AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Kelli Shuttleworth 2017 Treasurer $8,949 $0 JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC
Johnathon Lafarge 2016 Studio Manager $8,929 $0 CARVING STUDIO AND SCULPTURE CENTER
Lawrence Baily 2014 Finance Officer $8,925 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Corey A Geiger 2017 Vice President $8,907 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Peter Insalaco 2013 Director $8,900 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Patrick Skehan 2013 Executive Director $8,885 $0 HARTFORD AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Michelle Davia 2016 Director $8,830 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Susan Quinn 2013 Secretary $8,813 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Darcie Johnston 2014 Treasurer $8,800 $0 VERMONTERS FOR HEALTH CARE FREEDOM
Brittany Bemis 2014 Program Director $8,750 $0 THETFORD AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INC
Marie Thomas 2017 Executive Director $8,750 $0 OUR COMMUNITY CARES CAMP

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.