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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Susan Wilson 2014 Dean $68,315 $17,006 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Christopher O'Keefe 2013 Finance Director $68,303 $0 VERMONT FARM BUREAU INC
Robin Way 2017 Executive Director $68,302 $7,050 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDERS DEVELOPING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
Raymond Hathaway 2013 Executive Di $68,275 $0 SPECIALIZED COMMUNITY CARE
Jody Fried 2017 Executive Director $68,203 $0 CATAMOUNT FILM & ARTS CO
Jan-Roberta Tarjan 2015 Executive Director $68,195 $1,945 DISMAS OF VERMONT INC
Tom Mckone 2016 Executive Di $68,168 $13,085 KELLOGG HUBBARD LIBRARY
Jess Wilson 2017 Executive Director $68,117 $11,428 REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORK INC
David Mullin 2013 Executive Di $68,105 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Colleen Lafont 2016 Director Of Finance $68,093 $1,832 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Philip Rowell 2014 Progfacil Mgr $68,087 $0 VETERANS PLACE INC
Patrick Mckee 2014 Ceo $68,054 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Laurie Garrison 2017 Executive Direc $68,000 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC
Thomas Mansfield 2014 Director Of Finance $67,940 $13,685 BROC-COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT
Micaela M Myers 2017 Executive Direc $67,936 $5,067 BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY FOUNDATION INC
Robert Fanzoni 2014 Exec. Director $67,890 $0 CATV INC
David Ganapol 2014 Vice President $67,858 $0 NETWORKS INC
Matt Powers 2015 Director $67,816 $0 WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC
Sarah Waring 2015 Executive Dir. $67,800 $0 THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
Ric Mcclary 2013 General Mana $67,777 $13,381 CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
Sarah Corry 2016 Executive Di $67,708 $0 PURPLE HEARTS REUNITED INC
Ed Leclair 2014 Executive Direc $67,704 $2,031 THE CIRCUS BARN INCORPORATED
Cherryll Bunnell 2015 Chief Financial Officer $67,679 $11,479 RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORTATION INC
Kristie Johnson 2013 Business Mgr $67,600 $5,945 COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH
Susan Monica 2013 Cfo $67,505 $8,282 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE 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.