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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Katherine Borne 2014 Secretary, Executive Assistant $89,246 $19,675 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Lee E Randlett 2016 Maint Supvr $89,238 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Kyle Dodson 2016 President & Ceo $89,235 $9,077 GREATER BURLINGTON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
Joanne Corbett 2013 Executive Director $89,208 $0 ELDERLY SERVICES INC
Brian Shupe 2017 Executive Director $89,196 $4,989 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
James Ehlers 2014 Executive Director $89,192 $3,047 LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
Lori Furrer 2016 Executive Di $89,154 $0 MT MANSFIELD WINTER ACADEMY INC
Mike Debonis 2017 Executive Di $89,109 $11,389 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Alan Jordan 2014 Former Executive Director $89,093 $18,492 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Eileen Peltier 2014 Executive Di $88,975 $5,232 DOWNSTREET HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
Jill Doyle 2017 Finance Dir $88,974 $0 UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Julie Cunningham 2016 Executive Director $88,897 $18,090 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC
Susan Stitely 2016 President $88,875 $21,729 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
Jill Doyle 2014 Finance Dir $88,821 $0 UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Joseph E Petrick 2013 Vp Student Life $88,745 $15,651 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Eric Brigham 2017 Vice President (End 8/2017) $88,708 $5,206 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
James Harrison 2016 President: 1/1/16 - 12/31/16 $88,671 $19,437 VERMONT RETAIL AND GROCERS ASSOCIATION INC
Theresa Southworth 2014 Administrato $88,614 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Elisabeth Kulas 2013 Executive Direc $88,582 $2,000 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Jill Fortier 2016 Vp-Cfo $88,574 $3,302 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Jared Duval 2017 Executive Director $88,503 $0 ENERGY ACTION NETWORK
Tom Roberts 2016 Executive Director $88,416 $249 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Holly Morehouse 2017 Executive Director $88,377 $3,476 VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC
Cheryl Fatnassi 2013 President & Ceo $88,300 $8,817 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Tim Palmer 2016 Executive Di $88,285 $0 THE HOUSING FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

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.