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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Nancy Cathcart 2015 Executive Di $73,800 $1,103 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Jim Lovinsky 2016 Executive Di $73,785 $0 LAMOILLE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
Cindy Bruzzese 2014 Ex. Dir. $73,748 $0 VERMONT ETHICS NETWORK INC
Carolyn Meub 2013 Executive Director $73,733 $0 PURE WATER FOR THE WORLD INC
Elise Tillinghast 2016 Executive Director $73,730 $16,340 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Kristina Senna 2013 Finance Director $73,710 $15,371 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Linda Haltinner 2013 Chair $73,700 $0 SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
Erick Tichonuk 2017 Co-Executive Director $73,663 $589 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Sarah Munro 2017 Executive Director $73,632 $0 VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC
Tom Mckone 2017 Executive Di $73,628 $10,866 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Jim Lovinsky 2017 Executive Di $73,612 $0 LAMOILLE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC
Stephanie M Neil 2015 Asst. Secretary $73,599 $37,418 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Kathleen M Johnson 2016 Business Manager $73,570 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Emily Boedecker 2016 E. D. At 12/ $73,566 $736 LOCAL MOTION INC
Geoffrey Gevalt 2017 Executive Dir. $73,558 $4,006 YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC
Dolly Fleming 2016 Executive Di $73,554 $11,355 MERCY CONNECTIONS INC
David Mullin 2014 Executive Di $73,516 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Cathleen Lamberton 2013 Exec. Direct $73,500 $0 ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF VERMONT INC
Melissa Corbin 2017 Executive Dir. $73,500 $0 VERMONT BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC
Marcella Zalot 2016 Secretary $73,500 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Mary Grant 2017 Executive Director $73,462 $12,534 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Rev Tm Moore 2016 Chairman $73,450 $0 FELLOWSHIP OF AILBE
Suzanne Fitzsimmons 2013 Cfo $73,440 $18,412 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
James Collins 2013 Paramedic $73,433 $16,986 REGIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Michael Batsimm 2017 Director Of Finance $73,422 $10,453 LUND FAMILY CENTER 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.