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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jeannine Riley 2016 Cfo $85,319 $2,048 BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Robert Allen 2016 President $85,257 $710 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Nicole Clegg 2017 Vp Of Public Policy $85,253 $5,913 PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAINE ACTION FUND INC
Robert Flint 2015 Executive Director $85,189 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Chris Boget 2014 Executive Director $85,136 $28,050 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
Elizabeth Sightler 2014 Executive Director $85,131 $19,116 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Gregory Stefanski 2013 Executive Di $85,089 $1,726 LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
John Mandevelle 2015 Exect. Direc $85,050 $0 LAMOILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC
Steven Lutton 2014 Project Leader/Director $85,000 $25,455 VERMONT HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER INC
John Tashiro 2014 Interim Ed $85,000 $28,581 1 FOR THE PLANET INC
Tara Saltis 2017 Director Of Finance Operations $85,000 $2,550 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Sara Kobylenski 2016 Executive Director $85,000 $3,089 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Sara Kobylenski 2017 Executive Director $85,000 $3,396 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Elizabeth Howard 2015 President/Trustee $85,000 $8,073 JOURNEY NORTH
Matthew Federici 2015 Executive Director $85,000 $6,116 COPELAND CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND RECOVERY INCORPORATED
Trisha Ingalls 2015 Chief Executive Officer $85,000 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Tara Saltis 2016 Cfo $85,000 $2,550 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Dawn Smith Pliner 2017 Executive Director $85,000 $2,550 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Enid Wonnacott 2017 Executive Director $84,944 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Timothy Smith 2017 Executive Director $84,879 $6,447 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
J Michael Smiles 2015 Executive Director $84,869 $9,168 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
David Welenc 2015 Cfo $84,864 $0 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
David Mullin 2016 Executive Di $84,844 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Merten Bangemann- Johnson 2015 Chief Executive Officer $84,797 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Regan Shaw 2017 Chief Financial Officer $84,754 $4,238 VETERANS EDUCATION & RESEARCH ASSOC OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND 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.