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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
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
Elissa Cobb 2013 Board Of Directors $0 $0 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Derk Berquist 2013 Board Member $0 $0 CHARLOTTE DAY CARE CENTER INC
Tracey Holbrook 2013 Trustee $0 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Elizabeth Bassett 2013 Board Vp $0 $0 HOWARDCENTER INC
Judith Chalmer 2013 Executive Direc $50,600 $0 VSA VERMONT INC
Mary Bell 2013 Trustee (Resigned 6/2014) $0 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Robert Marine 2013 Vice President $0 $0 BENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
Geo Honigford 2013 Wndsr Assoc Rep $0 $0 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Anne Doremus 2013 Board Member Vice Chair $0 $0 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Todd Centybear 2013 Board Member $0 $0 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
John Van Hoesen 2013 Vice President $120,563 $13,285 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Randall E Weeks Phd 2013 President $4,000 $0 HEADACHE COOPERATIVE OF NEW ENGLAND INC
Jacob Stradling 2013 Executive Director $33,800 $0 FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC
Jennifer Carnahan Md 2013 Vice Preside $0 $0 WOMEN IN MEDICINE INC
Alan Stearns 2013 Vice Chair $0 $0 NORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL INC
Pamela Parsons 2013 President $0 $13,422 CHC2012 INC
Katie Beaulieu 2013 Trustee $0 $0 CAMP DOWNER INC
Richard Cleveland 2013 Chairman/Director $1,200 $0 THE VERMONT QUILT FESTIVAL INCORPORATED
Nicholas Roosevelt 2013 Trustee $0 $0 THE PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE INC
Thor Ramsing 2013 Trustee $0 $0 THE PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE 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.