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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Mitch Golub 2014 President & Ceo $83,911 $7,479 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
Ann Martin 2016 Executive Director $83,870 $3,592 PROJECT HARMONY INC
Steve Stettler 2016 Second Vice-Chair / Prod. Dir. $83,812 $10,394 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Robert Turnau 2016 V.P. - Finan $83,733 $10,737 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Ann Fitzgerald 2016 Board Member $83,728 $0 SOUTHSHIRE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC
David Cannamela 2016 Executive Director $83,723 $15,811 FRANCIS FOUNDATION INC
Lynn Rubinstein 2015 Secretary/Executive Direct $83,677 $10,007 NORTHEAST RECYCLING COUNCIL
Julie Iffland 2014 Executive Di $83,665 $0 RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Virginia Mcginn 2015 Executive Direc $83,654 $0 CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
Sara Kobylenski 2015 Executive Director $83,654 $6,340 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Jane Paine 2015 Financial Director $83,608 $20,668 LAMOILLE HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Jane Newland 2014 Senior Vice President $83,579 $9,904 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Breck Knauft 2016 Executive Di $83,564 $10,309 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Bruce Bouchard 2017 Executive Dir. $83,554 $0 PARAMOUNT CENTER INC
Kristine Bickford 2017 Executive Director $83,529 $13,015 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VT INC
Susan Boyer 2016 Executive Director $83,520 $8,970 VERMONT NURSES IN PARTNERSHIP INC
Thomas Mauhs-Pugh 2014 Vp Academic $83,502 $2,983 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Robert Haynes Jr 2017 Executive Dir. $83,500 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP
Breck Knauft 2015 Executive Di $83,445 $17,630 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Enid Wonnacott 2016 Executive Director $83,429 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Joseph E Petrick 2014 Vp Student Life $83,400 $11,424 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
David Welenc 2014 Cfo $83,328 $2,546 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
Gail Potter 2017 Former Admin $83,302 $0 OUR LADY OF PROVIDENCE VT INC
William Claessens 2014 Cfo $83,294 $16,283 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Lee Ann Goodrich 2017 Executive Director $83,247 $0 COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST 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.