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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Mullin 2017 Executive Di $88,269 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Cathy Conway 2017 Vice President $88,262 $21,617 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
James Ehlers 2013 Executive Director $88,221 $12,224 LAKE CHAMPLAIN INTERNATIONAL INC
Peter Delaney 2015 Exec Dir. $88,206 $1,764 RUN VERMONT INC
Kathy Sweeten 2014 Executive Vp $88,171 $1,500 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS INC
David Welenc 2017 Cfo $88,169 $0 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
Chris Boget 2015 Executive Director $88,141 $29,172 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
J Scott Lee 2014 Exec Directo $88,132 $1,567 ASSOCIATION FOR CORE TEXTS AND COURSES
Robert Flint 2017 Executive Director $88,032 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Peter Delaney 2016 Exec Dir. $88,020 $2,314 RUN VERMONT INC
Susana D Williams 2013 Treasurer/Manager/Ceo $87,989 $2,171 CENTRAL VT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Andrew Stickney 2013 Vice Pres. $87,959 $6,671 VERMONT CENTER FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES INC
Lynn Rubinstein 2014 Secretary/Executive Direct $87,948 $8,795 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Luanne Cantor 2014 Vice-President/Cfo $87,874 $19,115 GREATER BURLINGTON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
Dennis Kane 2014 Executive Dir. $87,869 $0 VT-HEC INC
Dennis Kane 2015 Executive Dir. $87,869 $0 VT-HEC INC
Lee E Randlett 2014 Maint Supvr $87,809 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Steve Geller 2015 Executive Director $87,804 $13,516 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Marilyn E Cormier 2014 Secretary Of The Board $87,753 $16,180 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Thomas Gregory Saylor 2017 Vice Preside $87,740 $4,751 VERMONT ASSOCIATES FOR TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT INC
Jane Newland 2015 Senior Vice President $87,705 $21,677 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Martha Halnon 2013 Executive Di $87,690 $10,389 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Cornelia Carey 2015 Executive Di $87,684 $13,664 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Peter Delaney 2017 Exec Dir. $87,681 $8,445 RUN VERMONT INC
Jan Demers 2014 Executive Director $87,667 $2,465 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 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.