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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Enid Wonnacott 2013 Executive Director $73,380 $0 NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT
Julia Muller 2015 Secretary $73,380 $5,236 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Jacquie Werner-Gavrin 2017 Director $73,359 $0 RED CEDAR SCHOOL INC
Elizabeth Stern 2013 Executive Direc $73,344 $2,809 CENTRAL VERMONT COUNCIL ON AGING INC
Mitch Golub 2016 President & Ceo $73,333 $0 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
Gabrielle Stebbins 2015 Executive Dir. $73,283 $1,415 RENEWABLE ENERGY VERMONT
Katrina Harris Do 2014 Director & Hospitalist Physician $73,282 $1,139 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
Shaun Fielder 2013 Executive Director $73,272 $7,800 VERMONT RURAL WATER ASSOCIATION
Virginia Mcginn 2013 Executive Direc $73,269 $10,513 CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
Hattie Johnson 2015 Executive Di $73,249 $6,045 VERMONTS CAMP TAKUMTA
Carol Nardino 2014 Secretery $73,192 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Marcella Zalot 2017 Secretary $73,183 $0 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Lee Lauber 2014 Exec. Dir. $73,174 $5,983 WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER
Elise Tillinghast 2015 Executive Director $73,140 $17,800 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Kathleen A Mcgowan 2013 Executive Di $73,121 $2,800 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Lawrence Knowles 2013 President $73,116 $2,190 ADVENT CHRISTIAN RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES INC
Robert Fanzoni 2016 Exec. Director $73,087 $0 CATV INC
Karen Cedergren 2015 Vp-Branch Administration $73,038 $2,869 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Cathy Davis 2014 Corp Vice Pr $73,033 $5,904 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
George Malek 2015 President $73,020 $2,028 CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Sherry Greifzu 2015 Executive Director $72,958 $4,696 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Robert Howard 2013 Paramedic/Super. $72,926 $11,956 REGIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Mary Grant 2016 Executive Director $72,880 $11,762 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Cathy Davis 2015 Corp Vice President $72,800 $6,264 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Mary Alice Mckenzie 2015 Exec. Direct $72,778 $3,206 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.