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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kristina Senna 2017 Cfo $83,211 $14,380 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Carol Cunningham 2017 Administrator $83,191 $7,909 MERTENS HOUSE INC
Brian L Fogg 2013 Ceo $83,190 $20,891 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Elise Shanbacker 2017 Executive Di $83,179 $7,880 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Cathy Conway 2014 Vice President $83,157 $10,326 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
David Cannamela 2017 Executive Director $83,150 $17,721 FRANCIS FOUNDATION INC
Kreig Pinkham 2017 Executive Di $83,132 $687 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Kreig Pinkham 2016 Executive Di $83,132 $785 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Katherine Borne 2015 Secretary, Executive Assistant $83,130 $20,018 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Todd Kingsbury 2017 Executive Di $83,097 $2,605 FAR POST SOCCER CLUB INC
Brian Shupe 2013 Executive Dir. $83,000 $0 VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
Alan Jordan 2013 Executive Director $82,964 $16,622 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
James Grout 2015 Executive Dir. $82,952 $2,688 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Lee E Randlett 2013 Maint Supvr $82,945 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Steve Stettler 2015 Second Vice-Chair / Prod. Dir. $82,935 $9,978 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Dorothy Raynolds 2016 Swim Team Head Coach $82,910 $2,392 SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Elise Shanbacker 2016 Executive Di $82,893 $13,921 ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST
Ann Martin 2015 Executive Director $82,874 $3,592 PROJECT HARMONY INC
Elizabeth Sightler 2016 Executive Director $82,839 $21,758 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Susan Stitely 2014 President $82,838 $17,333 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
James Grout 2017 Executive Dir. $82,727 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Jennifer Frizzell 2016 Vp Of Public Policy $82,710 $8,544 PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEW HAMPSHIRE ACTION FUND INC
Elizabeth H Howard 2014 President/Trustee $82,700 $8,831 JOURNEY NORTH
Walter D Manz 2016 Executive Director $82,592 $0 ESSEX RESCUE INC
Joan Goldstein 2014 Executive Dir. $82,590 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP

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.