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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Jones 2013 Financial Business Manager $50,940 $275 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Teena Betourney 2016 Trustee $50,940 $0 MIDDLEBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
Cynthia Marshall 2014 Asst. Executive Director $50,874 $971 VERMONT FEDERATION OF FAMILIES FOR CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH
Melissa Murray 2014 Executive Director $50,858 $0 OUTRIGHT VERMONT
Mary Ellen Otis 2015 Executive Director $50,858 $0 ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER INC
Shirley Ryan 2017 Office Manager $50,855 $0 HOSPICE VOLUNTEER SERVICES INC
Jay Austin 2017 Business Mgr $50,829 $0 PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-VERMONT
Deborah Yonker Rn 2013 Past Trustee $50,811 $29,255 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Kurt Broderson 2017 Tech Coordinator $50,809 $0 MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY TV
Robert Chapman 2017 Executive Director $50,797 $24,890 ONION RIVER COMMUNITY ACCESS MEDIA INC
Mark Podgwaite 2017 Executive Dir. $50,780 $0 WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Gregory Sharrow 2015 Co-Director $50,750 $4,468 VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
Mike Debonis 2014 Executive Di $50,750 $2,250 GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC
Timothy Labombard 2015 Executive Board/Member Dev $50,739 $24,315 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Pamela Scott 2017 Cfo $50,736 $0 CALEDONIA-ESSEX AREA AMBULANCE
Gloria Bruce 2014 Executive Di $50,732 $0 NORTHEAST KINGDOM TRAVEL & TOURISM ASSOCIATION
Karen Topper 2016 Administrative Director $50,731 $0 GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC
Susan Dorn 2017 Executive Di $50,695 $0 VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC
Shawn W Howard Td Bank 2013 Trustee $50,687 $0 GLENS FALLS FOUNDATION
Beth Baldwin 2015 Executive Director $50,675 $0 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO INC
Jared R Gunnell 2017 Executive Dir. $50,667 $5,976 SPRINGFIELD AREA PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION
Macy Lawrence 2013 Executive Director $50,662 $0 WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY TV
Sharon G Russell 2015 Executive Director $50,654 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Sharon G Russell 2016 Executive Director $50,654 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION INC
Sharon G Russell 2017 Executive Director $50,653 $0 RUTLAND CITY RESCUE MISSION 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.