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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Tara Saltis 2015 Cfo $82,000 $2,460 FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC
Sasha K Bianchi 2017 Executive Director $81,994 $14,010 VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INSTITUTE INC
Cynthia Moore 2014 Exec Dir $81,969 $0 SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
J Scott Lee 2015 Exec Directo $81,937 $0 ASSOCIATION FOR CORE TEXTS AND COURSES
James Grout 2016 Executive Dir. $81,899 $0 HIGH FIVE ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC
Carol Flint 2015 Former Executive Director $81,880 $14,914 BROC-COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT
Carol Shults-Perkins 2015 Executive Dir. $81,876 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC
Susan Stitely 2013 President $81,808 $15,250 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INDEPENDENT COLLEGES
Susanne Shapiro 2015 Executive Director $81,802 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Mike Debonis 2016 Executive Di $81,755 $13,761 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Robin Scheu 2014 Executive Dir. $81,741 $3,793 ADDISON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Robert Lake 2015 Ceo $81,692 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN CREDIT UNION
Tamara Mount 2016 Head Of School $81,622 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Peter Delaney 2014 Exec Dir. $81,616 $1,632 RUN VERMONT INC
Gabrielle Ratte Smith 2017 Sr. Assoc. For Strat $81,600 $17,891 THE ORTON FAMILY FOUNDATION
Virginia Mcginn 2017 Executive Direc $81,600 $0 CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
Cyrus Patten 2015 Ex Dir (Former) $81,558 $22,203 CAMPAIGN FOR VERMONT PROSPERITY INC
Jill Doyle 2013 Finance Dir $81,554 $0 UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Hilary Melton 2015 Executive Director $81,550 $15,881 PATHWAYS VERMONT INC
Kreig Pinkham 2013 Executive Direc $81,540 $789 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Cindy Bruzzese Mpa 2016 Ex. Dir. $81,528 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Jane Rodd 2014 Former Executive Director $81,522 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Joyce Touchette 2017 Executive Director $81,514 $15,179 THE CONVERSE HOME INC
Seth B Bongartz 2017 President $81,500 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC
Seth B Bongartz 2016 President $81,500 $0 FRIENDS OF HILDENE 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.