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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jonathan Wilson 2013 Chief Oper Off. $87,632 $17,804 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Peter Delaney 2013 Exec Dir. $87,600 $1,752 RUN VERMONT INC
Kelly Thompson 2013 Cfo $87,569 $4,097 CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Matthew Federici 2014 Executive Director $87,550 $8,420 COPELAND CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INCORPORATED
Travis Marcotte 2016 Executive Director $87,524 $7,237 INTERVALE CENTER INC
Mary Paul Loomis 2015 Executive Director $87,457 $14,369 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Jane Paine 2016 Financial Director $87,398 $19,538 LAMOILLE HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Robin Scheu 2015 Executive Dir. $87,369 $13,694 ADDISON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Alexander L Aldrich 2014 Exc Dir - See Sch O $87,349 $11,299 VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC
Elisabeth Kulas 2014 Executive Director $87,327 $0 HOUSING TRUST OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC
Dawn Smith Pliner 2016 Executive Director $87,300 $2,619 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Jan Demers 2013 Executive Director $87,223 $1,471 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Kreig Pinkham 2014 Executive Direc $87,206 $792 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Mary Paul Loomis 2014 Executive Director $87,169 $12,999 VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC
Amy Hamlin 2015 Executive Director $87,143 $8,694 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INSTITUTE INC
Olivia Campbell 2016 Executive Dir. $87,140 $0 RENEWABLE ENERGY VERMONT
Tom Roberts 2017 Executive Director $87,106 $505 VITAL COMMUNITIES INC
Daniel Summers Ii 2017 Vp Enroll. Mgmt $87,101 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE
Brian Murphy 2014 Vp For Finance & Administration/Treasurer $87,082 $4,205 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Timothy Watkins 2016 President/Assistant Busine $86,977 $32,629 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Cathy Conway 2015 Vice President $86,969 $26,230 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Andrew Winter 2016 Executive Director $86,908 $12,279 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Daryl Burtnett 2013 Executive Director (Eff 2/13) $86,900 $0 NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST
Timothy Watkins 2015 President/Assistant Busine $86,886 $32,099 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Sarah Mcmullen 2016 Deputy Director $86,833 $1,000 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION 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.