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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Melissa Houser 2017 Md $114,698 $28,243 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Robert M Paolini Esq 2015 Executive Director $114,620 $5,460 VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION
Mike Gardner 2016 Finance Director/Treasurer $114,601 $1,300 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Rachel Henry 2014 Vice President, Global Hr $114,543 $22,386 WORLD LEARNING INC
Meagan Downey 2013 Past Vp Of Development $114,509 $10,126 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Edward Mccollin 2016 Scout Execut $114,494 $7,998 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Ellen Gitomer 2014 Vp Of Development $114,482 $25,533 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Theresa Paquin 2017 Director Of Adult Home Care $114,468 $8,517 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Robert Gibson Term 2017 V.P. - Marketing $114,464 $22,978 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Michael Monte 2016 Chief Operating Officer $114,394 $28,641 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Kristina Choquette 2016 V.P. - Opera $114,390 $22,639 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Anne Levesque 2016 Director Of Human Resource $114,371 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Brian Fogg 2015 Ceo $114,321 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
William Shakespeare 2016 Program Dire $114,279 $10,140 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Michael Monte 2013 Chief Operating Officer $114,276 $0 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Alec Webb 2014 President $114,243 $7,605 SHELBURNE FARMS
Brenda Schill 2015 Executive Director $114,194 $0 EASTVIEW AT MIDDLEBURY
Edward Mccollin 2017 Scout Execut $114,190 $769 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Eileen Peltier 2016 Executive Di $114,183 $0 DOWNSTREET HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
Huppee Jane P 2015 Cfo $114,161 $10,589 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Tina Bleau 2016 Psychologist $114,156 $14,670 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Elise Annes 2015 Vp Community Relations $114,090 $3,675 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Laura Kass 2016 Behavrl Heal $114,071 $4,755 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Dr Howard M Schapiro 2013 Interim Pres/Ceo(Until 12/13) $114,050 $35,595 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
George Demas 2016 General Counsel $114,033 $13,288 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY

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.

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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.