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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Van Chesnut 2015 Executive Director $102,305 $18,364 ADVANCE TRANSIT INC
Cheryl Fatnassi 2015 President & Ceo $102,300 $7,684 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Susan Monica 2017 Cfo $102,248 $22,325 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
David Rekas 2015 Controller $102,248 $10,340 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Victoria Dibner 2015 Asst Manager $102,229 $0 CASCADE FOUNDATION
Daniel Dibner 2015 Manager $102,229 $0 CASCADE FOUNDATION
Simone Rueschemeyer 2017 Executive Di $102,189 $2,313 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC
Bryan Kent 2014 Vice President $102,184 $12,491 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT CREDIT UNIONS INC
Timothy Golden 2013 Senior Vice President $102,170 $0 ONE CREDIT UNION
Ellen Krajewski 2016 Cfo $102,145 $25,045 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
William J Rider 2014 V.P. Of Finance $102,086 $9,664 POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
Kathy Desjardins 2013 Assoc Vp Advancement Services $102,037 $25,078 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
James A Finger 2013 Cea $102,018 $13,179 REGIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Andrea Colnes Former Ed 2016 Executive Di $102,014 $17,982 ENERGY ACTION NETWORK
Pamela Clapp 2016 Employee $101,977 $21,506 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Tim Brownell 2017 Executive Director $101,940 $3,989 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Shawn Tester 2015 Coo $101,918 $0 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Harry Snyder 2016 Hr Director $101,877 $7,662 VNA & HOSPICE OF THE SOUTHWEST REGION INC
Elisabeth Kulas 2015 Executive Director $101,866 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Kevin Connolly 2014 Physician $101,831 $37,057 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Stephanie Daniels 2017 Senior Program Director $101,808 $0 SUSTAINABLE FOOD LAB
Paul Bruhn 2013 Executive Director $101,800 $6,425 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Carol Nardino 2017 Secretery $101,792 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Joseph Tymecki 2017 Cto $101,751 $20,743 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Randy Schoonmaker 2015 Ceo $101,736 $0 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT 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.