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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Livingston 2017 Head Of School $117,924 $2,460 SHARON ACADEMY
Bryan Kent 2017 Vice President $117,891 $16,412 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT CREDIT UNIONS INC
Ms Beth Choiniere 2016 Assistant Headmaster Campus Life $117,867 $47,776 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Eileen Peltier 2017 Executive Di $117,807 $10,063 DOWNSTREET HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
David Simmons 2015 Director Of $117,741 $15,387 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Mary Jane Russell 2016 Director Business Intellegence $117,664 $29,405 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
George Demas 2017 General Counsel $117,653 $13,621 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Stephen Genereaux 2013 Physician $117,651 $21,883 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Thomas P Navin 2014 Acting Vp, Philan & Alumni Engmt [From 01/2015] $117,640 $18,021 WORLD LEARNING INC
Lynn Smith 2013 Administrato $117,627 $3,628 THE MANOR INC
Larry Goetschius 2013 Executive Officer $117,590 $12,699 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Samuel Mcdowell 2013 V.P. - Opera $117,572 $30,950 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Holly Amoth 2015 Director Of Human Resource $117,559 $6,289 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
David Simmons 2017 Cfo $117,460 $24,563 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Christopher Bondi 2013 Physician $117,450 $17,664 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Robert Gibson 2016 V.P. - Marke $117,438 $28,727 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Fay Homan 2016 Physician $117,437 $32,349 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Claudia Courcelle 2015 Secretary $117,423 $38,589 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Michael Monte 2017 Chief Operating Officer $117,415 $36,596 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Stephanie Rust Director 2016 Wash.,Dc Office - Until 01/2017 $117,384 $23,890 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Steve Nicholas 2013 Vp For U.S. Programs $117,349 $24,324 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Jacqueline Hayes 2013 Assoc Academ Dean $117,347 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Kathleen Demars 2015 Executive Director $117,325 $29,003 LAMOILLE HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
David Mortensen 2017 Dir Of It $117,321 $22,536 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Savi Van Sluytman 2017 Executive Di $117,283 $49,422 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE

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.