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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Hilary Melton 2016 Executive Director $79,501 $11,665 PATHWAYS VERMONT INC
Linda Johnson 2016 Executive Direc $79,478 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Tom Garrett 2015 Executive Di $79,454 $3,563 LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT INC
Stephen Dale 2015 Former Ex Dir $79,402 $5,261 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Dave Yocavone 2015 Executive Director $79,393 $9,380 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
James Duff Lyall 2017 Executive Dir. $79,383 $0 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
Kathleen A Mcgowan 2015 Executive Di $79,364 $2,702 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Kes Boynton 2014 Business Mgr $79,353 $10,716 SPRING LAKE RANCH INC
Ginger Bartlett 2014 Finance Manager $79,299 $723 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Sandra Affenito 2017 Provost $79,298 $22,789 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Susan G Bornstein 2017 Vice-President $79,285 $10,260 THE BOMA PROJECT INC
Michael Gauthier 2016 Fiscal Director $79,158 $19,155 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
J Scott Lee 2016 Exec Directo $79,012 $0 ASSOCIATION FOR CORE TEXTS AND COURSES
Steve Stettler 2014 Vice-Chair / Prod. Dir. $79,001 $7,032 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Benjamin Cadwallader 2016 Executive Director $78,923 $12,241 VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
Richard Keane 2013 Ceo- Former $78,921 $3,120 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Michael Wright 2017 Ceo $78,773 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Kreig Pinkham 2015 Executive Direc $78,759 $779 WASHINGTON COUNTY YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU AND BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
Jeff Webster Through 123114 2014 Ceo/General $78,750 $0 BURLINGTON COUNTRY CLUB CORP
Ayeshah W Al-Humaidhi 2017 $78,750 $0 VINE-VEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED
Tom Garrett 2014 Executive Di $78,710 $3,688 LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT INC
Tom Garrett 2013 Executive Di $78,698 $4,737 LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT INC
David Berge 2013 Pres $78,696 $0 UNDERDOG FOUNDATION
Dennis Moynihan 2017 Executive Di $78,670 $3,406 BTVIGNITE INC
Karl N Larson 2013 Course Manager $78,604 $0 RUTLAND COUNTRY CLUB 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.