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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gary Clark 2015 President $94,966 $24,173 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Jonathan Wilson 2015 Coo $94,960 $17,062 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Susana Williams 2015 Manager/Treasur $94,802 $2,262 CENTRAL VT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Ed Leclair 2017 Ex Dir (Former) $94,760 $7,880 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Robert Stanton 2014 Executive Director $94,670 $0 LAMOILLE AREA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC
Peter Espenshade 2015 Executive Dir. $94,637 $19,838 VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY INC
Adam Grinold 2016 Executive Director $94,533 $9,953 THE BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORPORATION
Bob L'Ecuyer 2014 Rink Manager $94,494 $20,902 DORSET PARK SKATING ASSOCIATION INC
Randy Schoonmaker 2013 General Manager $94,486 $17,223 SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
Kathy Benoit 2015 Finance Dir. $94,481 $5,807 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Rita Markley 2015 Executive Di $94,416 $29,348 COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER
Rita Markley 2016 Executive Di $94,416 $35,181 COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER
Kathy Beyer 2013 Vp - Development $94,380 $5,663 HOUSING VERMONT
James Sturm 2016 Ccs, Director $94,347 $21,101 THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES INC
Thomas Pitts 2013 Cfo $94,180 $11,881 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Siobhan Smith 2015 Vp For Conservation $94,146 $21,386 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Sarah Mcmullen 2017 Deputy Director/Executive Director $94,097 $0 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Marcos Stafne 2015 Executive Director $93,969 $5,372 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Gregory Stefanski 2015 Executive Di $93,858 $1,878 LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
Gregory Stefanski 2016 Executive Di $93,822 $1,876 LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
Nick Richardson 2015 Vp For Enterprise $93,814 $21,686 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Kerry Woods 2013 Professor $93,805 $12,681 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Thomas Longstreth 2017 Executive Director $93,801 $13,532 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Pam Mccarthy 2016 President/Ce $93,750 $18,750 VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK
Eric Avildsen 2013 Exec. Direct $93,661 $3,106 VERMONT LEGAL AID 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.