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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John Spencer 2015 Executive Director $64,177 $0 VEPP INC
Susan Pratt Fox 2013 Executive Director $64,145 $0 BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM
Nicole Lapointe 2014 Ex. Director $64,093 $0 NORTHERN VERMONT AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC
Carol Williams Howe 2016 Executive Dir. $64,077 $4,426 VERMONT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL INC
Sean P Campbell 2015 Cfo (Through 12/15) $64,036 $20,115 VERMONT ACADEMY
Elizabeth Sightler 2013 Executive Director $64,033 $13,576 CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
Kandi Thermansen 2016 Chief Administrative Officer $64,006 $17,032 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Samuel Abel-Palmer Began 8116 2016 Interim Ex. $63,975 $17,304 LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT INC
Seth Mobley 2013 Executive Dir. $63,942 $2,570 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Cheryl Read 2017 Chief Administrative Offic $63,800 $21,767 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
George Mathias 2013 Vp Of Development $63,763 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Caitrin Maloney 2016 Executive Dir. $63,720 $0 STOWE LAND TRUST
Seth Mobley 2016 Executive Dir. $63,711 $12,788 VERMONT COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA
Suzanne Smith 2014 Co Ex Dir $63,657 $0 ONION RIVER CROSSROADS INC
Pat Edwards 2014 Operations Supervisor(Term 2014) $63,622 $6,866 WHITE RIVER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC
Brian Callanan 2014 Executive Director $63,600 $0 CYSTIC FIBROSIS LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION
Mandy Mcdermott 2016 Business Manager $63,576 $19,719 PATHWAYS VERMONT INC
Chris Hultquist 2017 Executive Dir. $63,564 $0 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR
Anne Kraemer Diaz 2017 Executive Director $63,525 $0 WUQU KAWOQ SA
Elise Tillinghast 2014 Executive Director $63,506 $6,490 CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC
Scott L Borg 2015 President/Ceo/Chief Econom $63,500 $0 UNITED STATES CYBER CONSEQUENCESUNIT
Maria Fish 2014 Executive Director $63,477 $0 KILLINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
Jeffrey Couture 2017 Executive Dir. $63,462 $0 VERMONT SOFTWARE DEVELOPERSALLIANCE INC
Elizabeth O'Brien 2015 Executive Di $63,462 $0 KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS
Robin Way 2015 Exec Director $63,440 $5,754 CHAMPLAIN ISLANDERS DEVELOPING ESSENTIAL RESOURCES

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.