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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mary Just Skinner 2016 Director $3,380 $0 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Allyson Bolduc Md 2015 Director $3,370 $0 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS
Allison Devery 2016 Former Ed $3,360 $0 MONTEVERDI MUSIC SCHOOL INC
Tari Prinster Kytle 2016 President $3,360 $0 RETREAT PROJECT INC
Susan Vigne 2016 Director $3,350 $0 AURORA SCHOOL
Tim Clark 2015 1St Asst Chief $3,341 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
Charles Popovitch 2015 Secretary $3,338 $0 ITALIAN AID SOCIETY INC
Megan Cannella 2016 Treasurer $3,323 $0 EAST MONTPELIER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC
Leonard Stell 2017 Treasurer/Director $3,315 $0 MISSISQUOI VALLEY RESCUE INC
Suzannah Park 2017 Trustee $3,300 $0 VILLAGE HARMONY
Chad Whitcomb 2015 Fire Chief $3,300 $0 THETFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Chad Whitcomb 2014 Fire Chief $3,300 $0 THETFORD VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
Josi Kytle 2016 Secretary $3,300 $0 RETREAT PROJECT INC
John S Burket 2016 Director $3,300 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Dale Drendel 2015 Director $3,300 $0 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Jennifer Carlo 2017 Executive Dir. $3,289 $598 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
James Foster 2015 Interim Secretary $3,271 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Todd Fischer 2013 Chief $3,265 $0 UNDERHILL JERICHO FIRE DEPARTMENT
John Richards 2016 Treasurer $3,250 $0 NEW MUSIC ON THE POINT INC
Kerrith Livengood 2016 Secretary $3,250 $0 NEW MUSIC ON THE POINT INC
Kerrith Livengood 2015 Secretary Treasurer $3,250 $0 NEW MUSIC ON THE POINT INC
John Richards 2015 At Large $3,250 $0 NEW MUSIC ON THE POINT INC
Jesse Rocheleau 2013 Treasurer $3,250 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Stephanie H Mcconaughy 2014 Director $3,242 $0 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Leslie A Rescorla 2014 Vice-President $3,242 $0 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES 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.