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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joe Patrissi 2016 Executive Director $76,646 $8,958 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Lesley Koenig 2016 Managing Director $76,609 $7,880 WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Shaun Fielder 2016 Executive Director $76,582 $6,104 VERMONT RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
John Killion 2014 Director Of Finance $76,532 $8,457 NORTH EAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Lorei Dawson 2015 Director Of Finance $76,531 $7,867 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Cathleen Lamberton 2015 Executive Vp $76,507 $0 ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF VERMONT INC
Cathleen Lamberton 2014 Executive Di $76,500 $0 ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF VERMONT INC
Hattie Johnson 2017 Executive Di $76,499 $8,317 VERMONTS CAMP TAKUMTA
Elizabeth Stern 2015 Ex. Director $76,490 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT COUNCIL ON AGING INC
Dana Michalovic 2017 Executive Director $76,440 $0 GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC
Timothy Smith 2013 Executive Director $76,428 $22,064 FRANKLIN COUNTY INDUSTRIAL
Danny Hale 2015 Executive Director $76,391 $0 VERMONT ATV SPORTSMANS ASSOCIATION INC
Sadie Brightman 2016 Executive Di $76,383 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER
Carol Nardino 2015 Secretery $76,373 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Linda Johnson 2014 Executive Direc $76,318 $3,203 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Mary Pappas 2017 Supervisor $76,303 $0 KINGS DAUGHTERS HOME INC
Gariot Louima 2014 Dean $76,295 $8,696 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Adam Kane 2015 Executive Director $76,292 $0 FAIRBANKS MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM
Adam Kane 2016 Executive Director $76,292 $0 FAIRBANKS MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM
Carol Cunningham 2014 Administrator $76,288 $9,345 MERTENS HOUSE INC
David Welenc 2016 Cfo $76,281 $0 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
Carol Cunningham 2016 Administrator $76,278 $7,797 MERTENS HOUSE INC
Jill Fortier 2015 Vp-Cfo $76,225 $3,015 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Paul Fonteyn 2016 Former College President $76,205 $4,304 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Mary Alice Mckenzie Until 72617 2016 Former E.D. $76,205 $3,343 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON 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.