Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Taylor Mitchell | 2016 | Executive Di | $96,136 | $2,884 | GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT |
| Jonathan Wilson | 2014 | Coo | $96,115 | $19,746 | FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC |
| Gregory Stefanski | 2017 | Executive Di | $96,045 | $21,479 | LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES |
| Terry Mcknight | 2013 | Executive Di | $96,002 | $22,522 | ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST |
| Deborah L Riley | 2015 | Executive Director/Ceo | $95,983 | $4,066 | VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS |
| Siobhan Smith | 2017 | Vp For Conservation | $95,958 | $27,135 | VERMONT LAND TRUST INC |
| Mark Wunderlich | 2013 | Professor | $95,925 | $11,638 | BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION |
| Andrea Colnes | 2015 | Executive Di | $95,903 | $17,079 | ENERGY ACTION NETWORK |
| Gail Auclair | 2013 | Ceo | $95,892 | $12,329 | LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC |
| Peter Espenshade | 2016 | Executive Dir. | $95,858 | $17,550 | VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY INC |
| Stephen Duclos | 2014 | Vp-Mortgage Lending | $95,838 | $3,695 | RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION |
| James Sturm | 2017 | Ccs, Director | $95,784 | $31,931 | THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES INC |
| Andrew Stickney | 2014 | Vice Pres. | $95,764 | $7,849 | VERMONT CENTER FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES INC |
| Sarah Mcmullen | 2015 | Deputy Director | $95,749 | $2,930 | CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC |
| Amy Putnam | 2014 | Cfo | $95,746 | $6,026 | NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC |
| Jonathan Wilson | 2016 | Coo | $95,726 | $22,626 | FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC |
| Forest Weyen | 2014 | Executive Director | $95,716 | $7,249 | TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC |
| Lauren Wooden | 2017 | Executive Director | $95,700 | $0 | CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC |
| Darlyne S Franzen | 2014 | Assistant Secretary | $95,668 | $53,809 | THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC |
| Paul Dery | 2013 | Acting Cfo | $95,658 | $10,747 | WORLD LEARNING INC |
| Melanie M Canon | 2015 | Physician | $95,644 | $7,054 | MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC |
| Timothy Shea | 2013 | Executive Di | $95,609 | $22,532 | CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EXPOSITION INC |
| Paul Costello | 2014 | Executive Direc | $95,602 | $11,332 | VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC |
| Darren Houck | 2013 | Head Of School | $95,594 | $19,446 | MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC |
| Van Chesnut | 2013 | Executive Director | $95,557 | $26,434 | ADVANCE 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.
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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.