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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Lisa Daigle-Farney 2013 Vice Preside $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Charles Stringer 2013 O/G Cfo - 06 $240,324 $15,631 HOWARDCENTER INC
Judith Chalmer 2013 Executive Direc $50,600 $0 VSA VERMONT INC
Patrick Keith 2013 Past Trustee/Med. Staff. Pres. $3,150 $0 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Pamela Laser 2013 Co-Chair, Secretary, Board Of Directors $0 $0 PLANTING HOPE INC
Peter T Smith 2013 Member At Large $0 $0 ALANA COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
Select Board Of Sheffield Vt 2013 Directors KENISTON AND DANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
Dominique Couture 2013 Board Member $0 $0 UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY INC
Melissa Gomez 2013 Member $0 $0 HARTLAND COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL
James Tewksbury 2013 Founding Board Member-At-L $38,846 $9,187 GLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATION
Patricia Sears 2013 President $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM TRAVEL & TOURISM ASSOCIATION
Peter Albert 2013 President $0 $0 VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY INC
Maryellen Mendl 2013 Exec. Dir. (Beginning 9/1/13) $16,452 $4,995 UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT
Lawrence Bailey 2013 Finance Off $9,100 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Martha Halnon 2013 Executive Di $87,690 $10,389 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Mary Paul Loomis 2013 Vice Chair $0 $0 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Eric Avildsen 2013 Exec. Direct $93,661 $3,106 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Lamont Barnett 2013 Trustee $1,077 $0 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Michael Geisler 2013 Vpls Sch Aboard & Graduate $219,747 $169,875 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Will Eberle 2013 Executive Director $39,721 $14,350 ANOTHER WAY INC
Dan Cox 2013 Co-Founder/Chair Emeritus $0 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Catherine Stephan 2013 Executive Director $55,000 $0 YELLOW BARN INC
Rita Markley 2013 Executive Di $93,183 $16,854 COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER
Anne Doremus 2013 Board Member Vice Chair $0 $0 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Sean P Brennan 2013 Head Of School $196,480 $41,610 VERMONT ACADEMY

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.