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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Cindy Bruzzese Mpa 2017 Ex. Dir. $86,833 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Robert Flint 2016 Executive Director $86,800 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Brian Shupe 2016 Executive Director $86,713 $4,867 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Mark Hudson 2015 Previous Exe $86,700 $14,280 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Doug Wysockey-Johnson 2016 President $86,638 $10,922 LUMUNOS INC
Owen Robinson 2016 Executive Dir. $86,622 $7,264 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Vaughn T Collins 2013 Exec. Dir. (From 2/15/13) $86,600 $11,431 VERMONT STATE DENTAL SOCIETY
Dennis Kane 2013 Executive Dir. $86,540 $0 VT-HEC INC
Andrew Winter 2015 Executive Director $86,538 $10,700 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Lynn Rubinstein 2016 Secretary/Executive Direct $86,522 $0 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Thomas Gregory Saylor 2013 Coo $86,470 $16,295 VERMONT ASSOCIATES FOR TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT INC
Marilyn E Cormier 2013 Secratary Of The Board $86,453 $15,122 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Lee E Randlett 2015 Maint Supvr $86,448 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Lynn Rubinstein 2017 Secretary/Executive Director $86,447 $11,129 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Roger Allbee 2014 Trustee (End 11/14)/Ceo $86,400 $0 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Steve Stettler 2017 Second Vice-Chair / Prod. Dir. $86,327 $10,830 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Dee Deluca 2017 E.D. And Tre $86,310 $0 AWAKENING SANCTUARY INC
Marsha Hopkins 2017 Treasurer $86,302 $29,429 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Joseph Tymecki 2013 Secretary $86,288 $8,376 VERMONT ETV INC
Constance Snow 2013 Executive Director $86,268 $0 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Andrew Winter 2014 Executive Director $86,188 $8,768 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Holly Morehouse 2015 Executive Director $86,154 $4,480 VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC
George Pearlman 2013 Executive Dir. $86,152 $18,125 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Robert Stanton 2015 Executive Director $86,075 $0 LAMOILLE AREA PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY INC
Kathy Sweeten 2016 Executive Vp $86,044 $7,735 NORTHWESTERN VERMONT BOARD OF REALTORS 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.