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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jan Demers 2015 Executive Director $95,519 $2,092 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Christine Johnson 2017 Deputy Director $95,490 $698 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Rotimi Suberu 2013 Professor $95,483 $16,744 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Kristina Senna 2015 Cfo $95,464 $21,416 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Jill Fortier 2017 Vp-Cfo $95,448 $18,600 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Lynn Pilcher 2017 Executive Dir. $95,442 $26,499 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
John Barbour 2013 Executive Di $95,413 $7,777 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
Andrea Colnes 2014 Executive Di $95,370 $14,038 ENERGY ACTION NETWORK
Lance Olson 2016 Executive Director $95,361 $11,032 SPRUCE PEAK ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC
Joseph Tymecki 2016 Cto $95,272 $16,835 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Michelle Ollie 2016 Ccs, President $95,271 $10,578 THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES INC
Andrew Winter 2017 Executive Director $95,245 $10,085 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Mike Spillane 2014 President & Ceo $95,242 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Marilyn B Miller 2013 Executive Direc $95,198 $18,963 VERMONT AUTOMOBILE DEALERS INC
Michael Livingston 2013 Head Of School $95,159 $3,997 SHARON ACADEMY
Julie-Ann Graves 2016 Cfo $95,102 $15,008 VERMONT FOODBANK
Paige Gallo 2014 Chief Financial Officer $95,051 $4,716 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Ellen Kahler 2017 Executive Di $95,008 $11,011 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Robert Wolterstorff 2013 Executive Director $95,000 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Matthew Federici 2016 Executive Director $95,000 $6,590 COPELAND CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INCORPORATED
Karen Gennette 2015 Executive Dir. $95,000 $0 CRIME RESEARCH GROUP INC
Orly Munzing 2013 Executive Dir. $95,000 $0 STROLLING OF THE HEIFERS
Stephen Perkins 2016 Sec./Exec. D $94,994 $15,739 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
George Hauenstein 2013 Secretary $94,984 $15,612 VERMONT ETV INC
Viviana Waisman 2013 Executive Dir. $94,973 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE 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.