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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jeffrey Vande Griek 2017 Secretary $77,400 $19,575 VERMONT ETV INC
Mitch Golub 2015 President & Ceo $77,333 $0 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
Sharon Bernard 2015 Former Director Of Finance $77,277 $7,906 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Michael Gauthier 2015 Fiscal Director $77,263 $13,585 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
David Cannamela 2014 Executive Director $77,250 $15,263 FRANCIS FOUNDATION INC
David Cannamela 2014 Ex Director $77,250 $15,263 FRANCIS HOME PROVIDERS SERVICES INC
Chris O'Keefe 2014 Administrator $77,235 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Samuel Abel-Palmer 2017 Executive Di $77,208 $17,560 LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT INC
Janel Kittredge 2016 Medical Dir. $77,190 $0 CARLOS OTIS STRATTON MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC
Travis Marcotte 2013 Executive Director $77,156 $6,690 INTERVALE CENTER INC
Christopher C Rimmer 2016 Trustee, Executive Director $77,065 $17,074 THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC
Carol Shults-Perkins 2014 Executive Dir. $77,060 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC
John Killion 2016 Director Of Finance $77,040 $9,145 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Greg Macdonald 2016 Cfo $77,018 $6,600 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Catherine Conley 2013 Administrator $76,884 $25,416 HISTORIC HOMES OF RUNNEMEDE INC
Steve Geller 2014 Executive Director $76,856 $7,177 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Marissa Parisi 2016 Executive Di $76,830 $11,065 HUNGER FREE VERMONT
Kevin Christopher 2016 Exec Director $76,821 $6,964 LAKE CHAMPLAIN ACCESS TELEVISION INC
Carol Jenkins 2013 Evp For Global Development $76,821 $6,400 WORLD LEARNING INC
Michael Wright 2016 Ceo $76,775 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Rebecca T Geary 2014 Executive Dir. $76,766 $8,267 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Katherine Borne 2016 Sec, Exec Asst Until 4/10/17 $76,766 $19,400 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Steve Stettler 2013 Vice-Chair / Prod. Dir. $76,700 $9,958 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
John Killion 2015 Director Of Finance $76,698 $9,445 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Thomas Donahue 2014 Executive Dir $76,657 $0 RUTLAND REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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.