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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Schulz 2017 Head Programmer $116,185 $10,436 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Savi Van Sluytman 2015 Executive Di $116,143 $53,206 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Jane Paine 2017 Cfo $116,083 $22,873 LAMOILLE HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Manju Bannerjee 2015 Vp And Director Of Lcirt $116,060 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Brad Ellis 2014 Exec. Direct $116,057 $3,532 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
Devon Green 2017 Vp Of Gov Relations $116,019 $33,744 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Jason Richardson 2013 Chief Financial Officer $115,988 $23,978 AREA RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES INC
Peter Gilbert 2017 Executive Director $115,950 $0 VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL
David Long 2015 Health Direc $115,915 $17,147 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Brenda Torpy 2016 Chief Executive Officer $115,903 $29,789 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
David Long 2014 Health Direc $115,857 $21,492 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Robert Lester 2013 Director Of It $115,824 $18,557 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
David Simmons 2016 Cfo $115,824 $8,679 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Savi Van Sluytman 2016 Executive Di $115,819 $54,464 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Barbara Keough 2015 Executive Direc $115,749 $0 MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC
Paul Dery 2015 Former Acting Cfo $115,573 $10,943 WORLD LEARNING INC
Matthew Denhart 2015 Executive Dir. $115,560 $14,980 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Orly Munzing 2016 Executive Dir. $115,554 $0 STROLLING OF THE HEIFERS
Don Seville 2017 Co-Director $115,533 $0 SUSTAINABLE FOOD LAB
Gerhard K Friedrich 2015 Partnerships Director $115,519 $30,465 GRASSROOT SOCCER INC
Julie Tessler 2017 Executive Dir. $115,518 $21,592 VERMONT COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Kriss Barker 2014 V.P. Of International Programs $115,482 $12,092 POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
Shawn Tester 2016 Ceo $115,461 $16,093 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Brian Donahue 2013 Cfo, Vp $115,456 $22,580 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
James A Finger 2017 Cea $115,409 $11,800 REGIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE 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.