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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Carol Shults-Perkins 2013 Executive Dir. $71,649 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC
Sharon Bernard 2014 Co-Interim Director $71,645 $6,839 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Katherine Borne 2013 Secretary, Executive Assistant $71,639 $17,642 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Susan Monica 2014 Cfo $71,636 $11,343 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Thomas Mansfield 2015 Director Of Finance $71,607 $12,606 BROC-COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT
Chad Butt 2017 Executive Dir. $71,592 $7,678 MOBIUS INC
Paul Cillo 2013 President $71,520 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Paul Cillo 2016 President $71,520 $0 PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC
Lauren Wooden 2013 Executive Director $71,500 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
Sandra Tumosa 2013 President $71,472 $420 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Kathleen A Mcgowan 2014 Executive Di $71,462 $2,260 UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Cathleen Barkley Resigned 2017 Executive Di $71,441 $8,577 HOPE WORKS INC
William Mapes 2017 Coo $71,421 $0 BRANDON AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC
Julia Muller 2014 Secretary $71,400 $4,552 NORTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE INCORPORATED
Paul Craven 2016 Executive Dir. $71,373 $0 VERMONT LOW INCOME TRUST FOR ELECTRICITY INC
Thomas M Achenbach 2017 President/Treasurer $71,317 $20,397 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Thomas M Achenbach 2014 President/Treasurer $71,317 $18,685 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Thomas M Achenbach 2013 President/Treasurer $71,317 $18,685 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Thomas M Achenbach 2016 President/Treasurer $71,317 $19,613 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Thomas M Achenbach 2015 President/Treasurer $71,317 $19,541 RESEARCH CENTER FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES INC
Heather Hobart 2017 Executive Director $71,280 $0 LAMOILLE COUNTY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC
Mary Alice Mckenzie 2013 Exec. Direct $71,266 $1,380 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
Suzanne Fitzsimmons 2016 Cfo $71,262 $0 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Nancy Cathcart 2014 Executive Di $71,258 $1,110 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Anthea Lavallee 2016 Executive Director $71,246 $561 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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.