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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kathleen Lisai 2017 Director-Tru $7,200 $0 GEORGE A DASCOMB CHARITABLE EXEMPT TRUST
Denise Boucher 2017 Treasurer $7,200 $0 AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
Malcolm Ewen 2014 Producing Director $7,200 $0 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Lisa Von Kann 2016 Administrative Coordinator $7,200 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Rev Dr William E Cobb 2016 Director $7,200 $0 FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERNCOMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP
Steve Keene 2017 Director $7,200 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Dareth Gage 2016 Train. Off. $7,180 $0 ORLEANS EMERGENCY UNIT INC
Barry Bernstein 2013 President $7,175 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Michael Gunn 2013 Recorder $7,160 $0 SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL
Katie Sweeney 2017 Shop Manager $7,145 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HOSPITAL AUXILIARY INC
Lisa Von Kann 2014 Administrative Coordinator $7,100 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Robert Sanders 2013 Former Director/Consultant $7,099 $0 CLEAN ENERGY STATES ALLIANCE INC
John Braun 2013 Cfo $7,071 $160 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
Daniel Carswell 2015 Director - 1St Vice President $7,070 $16 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Melanie Riddle 2017 Former Exe D $7,024 $0 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSN INC
Susan Bokelberg 2013 2-Day Asst. Tea $7,021 $0 PRESCHOOL AT FAITH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC
William Dick 2016 Treasurer $7,020 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Kimberly Ingraham 2016 Secretary $7,015 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Kimberly Ingraham 2014 Secretary $7,015 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Lynn Bondurant 2015 Executive Director $7,008 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
William Bruett 2017 Chairman $7,000 $0 WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Christina Adams 2016 Director $7,000 $0 SOUL SUPPORT SYSTEMS INC
Rob Hodgkins 2015 President $7,000 $0 NEWPORT CITY RENAISSANCE CORPORATION
Roger Marcoux 2013 President $7,000 $0 VERMONT SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION INC C/O SHERRIFF GARY FORREST
Robert Fleming 2015 President $7,000 $0 MALAYAKA HOUSE 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.