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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Nancy Chiquoine 2017 Director Or Marketing $115,381 $11,941 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Anne Levesque 2017 Director Of Human Resources $115,362 $11,627 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Jennifer Castle 2014 Associate Medical Director $115,341 $4,088 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Catherine Schneider 2017 Homecare Director $115,331 $15,405 VNA & HOSPICE OF THE SOUTHWEST REGION INC
Kathleen Landry 2016 Vp Of Human Resources $115,291 $9,870 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Ms Carol Lyon 2016 Assistant Headmaster For B $115,269 $28,962 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Bryan Kent 2016 Vice President $115,245 $15,990 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT CREDIT UNIONS INC
Susana E D Williams 2017 Secretary $115,212 $1,822 CENTRAL VT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Margaret Bolton 2015 Psychiatrist $115,202 $2,776 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Thomas R Connors 2014 Chief Financial Officer $115,110 $23,826 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Judith Franz 2015 V.P. - Clien $115,085 $8,262 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Jose Zirena 2015 Cfo $115,059 $14,645 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Dr Robert Wolterstorff 2015 Executive Director $115,000 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
Janet Spitler 2015 Treasurer $115,000 $0 HOUSING VERMONT
Luke Fontaine 2013 Chief Financ $114,998 $19,097 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Anthony Vargo 2014 Chief Financial Officer $114,996 $10,162 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Dane A Rank 2015 Administrato $114,914 $17,117 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Brenda Schill 2016 Executive Director $114,906 $0 EASTVIEW AT MIDDLEBURY
Barbara Mcandrew 2014 Vp For Institutional Advancement $114,869 $25,135 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
John Shenot 2015 Senior Associate $114,867 $21,243 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
William J Rider 2016 V.P. Of Finance $114,863 $9,918 POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
Carol Lyon 2017 Assistant Headmaster For B $114,819 $54,983 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Catherine Iacuzzi 2015 Executive Director $114,787 $17,172 MAPLE LEAF FARM ASS INC
Claudia Courcelle 2014 Secretary $114,716 $7,049 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
George Idelkope Md 2013 Board Member $114,699 $0 BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

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.