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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Nardino 2013 Secretery $70,766 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Suzanne Fitzsimmons 2014 Cfo $70,720 $16,309 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Suzanne Fitzsimmons 2015 Cfo $70,720 $14,619 RECOVERY HOUSE INC
Kristie Johnson 2014 Treasurer $70,615 $6,479 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Scott Campitelli 2014 Executive Direc $70,585 $11,000 REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORK INC
Daren Houck 2014 Headmaster $70,543 $11,032 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Nancy Cathcart Resigned In 2017 2016 Executive Di $70,535 $4,900 HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY
Bob Coates 2017 Outgoing Coo $70,515 $21,953 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Lawrence Crist 2017 Executive Director $70,500 $5,000 VERMONT PARENT REPRESENTATION CENTER INC
Stephanie M Neil 2013 Asst. Secretary $70,479 $33,348 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Jean Watkins 2017 Administrator $70,440 $20,831 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECT WORKERS 300 HEALTH & WELFARE TR
Kim Roberge 2017 Exec. Direct $70,305 $0 CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER
Sandra Dragon 2015 Executive Dir. $70,300 $3,219 ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF VERMONT
Sandra Tumosa 2015 President $70,292 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Sandra Dragon 2014 Executive Dir. $70,292 $3,517 ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF VERMONT
Thomas Mansfield 2016 Former Director Of Finance $70,279 $16,180 BROC-COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT
Susan Pelkey Smith 2014 Director Of Fin. & Operations $70,171 $20,754 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Judith Franz 2014 Asst. V.P. - $70,123 $4,672 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Joanna Kelly 2016 Finance Directo $70,115 $24,184 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Mary Pappas 2016 Supervisor $70,106 $0 KINGS DAUGHTERS HOME INC
Philip Rowell 2015 Progfacil Mgr $70,037 $0 VETERANS PLACE INC
Linda Wichlac 2017 Executive Director $70,023 $0 BENNINGTON PROJECT INDEPENDENCE INC
Susan Pelkey Smith 2015 Director Of Fin. & Operations $70,008 $21,216 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Sandra Dragon 2017 President $70,000 $3,225 ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF VERMONT
Evelyn Sirois 2015 Ceo $70,000 $0 MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION

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.