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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Athey Lutz 2017 Secretary $7,000 $0 OAKLAND FOUNDATION
Teal Scott 2014 President $7,000 $0 CENTER FOR MINDFUL LEARNING INC
Scott Moore 2016 Managing Director $7,000 $0 CAMP EXCLAMATION POINT INC
William Bruett 2017 Chairman $7,000 $0 WINDHAM FOUNDATION
Ron Furman 2017 Manager $6,989 $0 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPT OF VERMONT
Don Worth 2017 Director $6,960 $7 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Erik Nielsen 2015 Secretary $6,920 $0 MUSIC COMPOSITION ONLINE MENTORING PROGRAM INC
Bruce Harmon 2015 Bookkeeper $6,920 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Micheline Tremblay 2017 French Language Center Director $6,912 $0 ALLIANCE-FRANCAISE OF THE LAKECHAMPLAIN REGION
Sharon T Radtke Dbasharon Eventsllc 2016 Operations Manager $6,900 $0 BURLINGTON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC
Eric Rhomberg 2014 Secretary $6,876 $0 COMPASS SCHOOL INC
Lisa Von Kann 2013 Executive Director $6,850 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN LIBRARY CONSORTIUM
Tayo Gabler 2016 Treasurer $6,841 $0 HOME BASE INC
Sheila Bailey 2013 Executive Director Interim $6,813 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT PREGNANCY SERVICES INC
Jean Richard 2017 Treasurer $6,796 $0 FRANKLIN HOMESTEAD INC
Dale O'Reilly 2017 Director $6,787 $0 RETREAT PROJECT INC
Alison Howe 2015 Secretary $6,775 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
David King 2017 Vice President $6,771 $0 NORTHEASTERN BAPTIST COLLEGE INC
Roberta Lillie 2016 Co Manager $6,750 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Laura Jacoby 2016 Executive Di $6,740 $0 BURLINGTON BICYCLE PROJECT CORP
Gary Poe 2014 Actor $6,735 $0 OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS
Zeke Davisson 2014 Executive Director/Director $6,731 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
C Sue Sharp 2015 Vice President $6,720 $0 HIS INDEPENDENCE PROJECT INC
Kevin Donovan 2013 Officer/Ceo $6,700 $61,993 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Kevin Donovan 2014 Ceo $6,700 $50,536 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION

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.