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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jane Van Buren 2017 E.D. Until 1 $7,898 $0 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Thomas Bailey 2017 Director $7,830 $668 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Steven Young 2017 Chief $7,811 $0 BEECHER FALLS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Trust Company Of Vermont 2017 Trustee $7,805 $0 WILLIAM DEAN FAUSETT CHARITABLE TRUST
Joesph Degray 2017 President $7,800 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Deborah Chevrier 2013 Secretary $7,800 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Rev Dr William E Cobb 2015 Director $7,800 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Lynne Dapice 2014 Former Executive Director $7,764 $0 ANA-VERMONT INC
Elka Schumann 2015 Secretary $7,746 $0 BREAD & PUPPET THEATRE INC
Erika Floriani 2014 Bookkeeping $7,723 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Cheryl Dickenson 2013 Executive Dir. $7,717 $0 CONNECTICUT RIVER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Rj Thompson 2017 Executive Director $7,700 $0 VERMONT HUTS ASSOCIATION LTD
Robert Clark 2017 Director $7,680 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Christine Porter 2014 Director $7,668 $0 WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
Sarah Munro 2016 Executive Director $7,664 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Micheline Lemay 2015 Director $7,650 $0 MOUNTAIN RIVER SCHOOL LTD
Daniel Carswell 2016 Director - President $7,630 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Mary Ellen Parkman 2014 Executive Di $7,625 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN WATER ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATION
Benjamin K Falk 2017 Secretary $7,615 $0 WHOLE SYSTEMS HEALTH
Barry Bernstein 2016 President $7,615 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Deborah Chevrier 2017 Secretary $7,602 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Deborah Chevrier 2015 Secretary $7,600 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Susan Bokelberg 2014 2-Day Asst. Tea $7,589 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Dareth Gage 2015 Train. Off. $7,580 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Mark Woodward 2016 Director - Secretary $7,580 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE 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.