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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kes Boynton 2015 Business Mgr $80,036 $5,021 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Evelyn Sirois 2017 Ceo $80,002 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION
Owen Robinson 2014 Executive Dir. $80,000 $5,977 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Julia Coffey 2014 Executive Di $80,000 $0 BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE COUNCIL INC
Robert Haynes Jr 2016 Executive Dir. $80,000 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP
Julia Coffey 2013 Executive Di $80,000 $0 BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE COUNCIL INC
Robert Fleming 2014 President $80,000 $0 MALAYAKA HOUSE INC
Sara Kobylenski 2014 Executive Director $80,000 $2,331 UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC
Owen Robinson 2015 Executive Dir. $80,000 $6,189 HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC
Joan Goldstein 2013 Executive Dir. $80,000 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP
Geoff Gevalt 2013 Executive Dir. $80,000 $20,212 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Robert Haynes Jr 2015 Executive Dir. $80,000 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP
Robert Fleming 2013 President $80,000 $0 MALAYAKA HOUSE INC
Fred Kniffin Md 2015 Interim Ceo $79,989 $30,580 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Kathleen A Mcgowan Until 11818 2017 Executive Di $79,985 $2,738 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Carol Shults-Perkins 2017 Executive Director $79,828 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC
David Welenc 2013 Cfo $79,785 $2,394 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
Susanne Shapiro 2014 Executive Director $79,749 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Ann Martin 2013 Executive Director $79,637 $4,776 PROJECT HARMONY INC
Susanne Booth 2016 Vp $79,621 $0 SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
Nick Richardson 2013 Vp For Enterprise $79,617 $20,403 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Susan Monica 2015 Cfo $79,615 $14,518 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Marsha Hopkins 2016 Treasurer $79,614 $28,154 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Christopher C Rimmer 2017 Trustee, Executive Directo $79,602 $15,547 THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC
Regan Shaw 2016 Chief Financial Officer $79,588 $3,979 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.