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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ann Martin 2017 Executive Director $84,712 $3,476 PROJECT HARMONY INC
Breck Knauft 2017 Executive Di $84,693 $26,816 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
William Claessens 2015 Cfo $84,685 $16,465 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Marilyn Carter 2013 Acting Executive Director $84,672 $9,328 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Luanne Cantor 2013 Vice-President/Cfo $84,672 $17,837 GREATER BURLINGTON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
Leonard Cunningham 2017 Treasurer $84,660 $27,123 VERMONT ETV INC
Steve Geller 2016 Executive Director $84,623 $13,615 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Eileen Peltier 2013 Executive Di $84,568 $4,684 DOWNSTREET HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
Lisa Denatale 2015 Executive Director $84,500 $3,380 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT
Lori Fisher 2016 Secretary/Ex $84,445 $3,710 LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMITTEE INC
Lauren Wooden 2014 Executive Director $84,341 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
Melvin Aaron 2014 Administrato $84,332 $0 GREENSBORO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC
Coleen Healy 2016 Director $84,315 $0 SOUTHSHIRE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC
Theresa Southworth 2016 Administrato $84,268 $0 INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS
Todd Kingsbury 2016 Executive Di $84,246 $3,735 FAR POST SOCCER CLUB INC
Sarah Mcmullen 2014 Co-Interim Director $84,205 $1,669 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
William Claessens 2013 Cfo $84,130 $2,926 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Julie-Ann Graves 2013 Cfo $84,119 $15,122 VERMONT FOODBANK
Dawn Smith Pliner 2015 Executive Director $84,000 $2,520 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Dee Deluca 2016 E.D. And Tre $84,000 $0 AWAKENING SANCTUARY INC
Robert Flint 2014 Executive Director $83,999 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Robert Flint 2013 Executive Director $83,945 $0 SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Brian Shupe 2014 Executive Director $83,923 $504 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Amy Hamlin 2013 Executive Director $83,916 $12,565 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INSTITUTE INC
Amy Hamlin 2014 Executive Director $83,916 $7,703 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INSTITUTE 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.