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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Martha Edwards Manning 2016 Secretary $7,478 $0 CAMBRIDGE RESCUE SQUAD INC
Deborah Chevrier 2016 Secretary $7,456 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Jay A Hoyt 2016 Director Software Solutions $7,425 $2,464 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Richard North 2017 Executive Direc $7,425 $0 BLACK RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER
Daniel Carswell 2017 Director - President $7,350 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Jay A Hoyt 2015 Director Software Solutions $7,350 $2,437 EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC
Ellen Thompson 2016 Former Director/Instructor $7,330 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
Aimee Koch 2015 Executive Director $7,326 $0 VERMONT CHIROPRATIC ASSOCIATION
Karen Lane 2015 Former Ex Direc $7,301 $0 ALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY
Robert Cummings Jr 2017 V. President $7,300 $0 OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
William J Fisk 2017 President $7,300 $0 OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Charles Letourneau 2017 Secretary $7,300 $0 OLIN SCOTT FUND INC
Peter Cobb 2016 Former Ed $7,293 $0 VERMONT HOME AND COMMUNITY CARE INC
Sabrina Brown 2014 Administration $7,286 $0 INTERPLAY JAZZ & ARTS INC
Lisa Von Kann 2015 Administrative Coordinator $7,286 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Bradley Reed 2016 President $7,275 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Bradley Reed 2015 President $7,275 $0 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS
Krista Hoffsis 2016 Program Coordinator & Secretary $7,250 $0 LEWIS CREEK WATER SHED ASSOCIATION
Erin Dahlstrom 2017 Assist. Teacher $7,249 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
Meg Scherbatskoy 2017 Director $7,229 $0 THE INITIATIVE A VERMONT WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL
Tim Fort 2016 Producing Director $7,200 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Denise Boucher 2017 Treasurer $7,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Michael A Lisai 2017 Director-Tru $7,200 $0 GEORGE A DASCOMB CHARITABLE EXEMPT TRUST
Malcolm Ewen 2014 Producing Director $7,200 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Kathleen Lisai 2017 Director-Tru $7,200 $0 GEORGE A DASCOMB CHARITABLE EXEMPT TRUST

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.