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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sverre Caldwell 2017 Nordic Prog Dir $112,962 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL & SKI FOUNDATION INC
Lyne Limoges 2016 Executive Director $112,945 $4,193 ORLEANS-ESSEX VNA & HOSPICE INC
Dave Adams 2014 Chief Of Program Operations $112,898 $32,536 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Helyn Kerr 2013 Asst Dir Of Communications $112,775 $2,449 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Robert Thorn 2013 Exec. Dir. $112,723 $3,774 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Ross Powers 2017 Snowboard Prog Dir $112,707 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL & SKI FOUNDATION INC
Gail Auclair 2016 Ceo $112,594 $19,980 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Catherine Fulton 2017 Executive Director $112,562 $8,923 VERMONT PROGRAM FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE INC
Laura Weylman 2014 Physician $112,476 $3,374 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
William Cote 2013 Apnp $112,464 $8,308 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Brett A Smith 2017 Ceo $112,447 $0 ONE CREDIT UNION
Eric Palola 2014 Exec Dir/Sec'Y $112,424 $28,613 GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND
Eric Palola 2015 Exec Dir/Sec'Y $112,423 $29,312 GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND
Eric Palola 2013 Exec Dir/Sec'Y $112,423 $28,153 GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND
Jerry Cross 2015 Ceo/President $112,375 $0 ONE CREDIT UNION
Elise Annes 2013 Vp Community Relations $112,348 $1,555 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
James Mazzonna 2017 Chief Information Officer $112,273 $10,963 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Harry Snyder 2017 Hr Director $112,264 $8,033 VNA & HOSPICE OF THE SOUTHWEST REGION INC
Corinne Bell 2016 Chief Tecnology Officer $112,263 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Matthew Vogel 2016 Executive Director $112,246 $13,703 HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
Rebecca Bowen 2013 V.P. - Finan $112,218 $28,497 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Manju Bannerjee 2014 Vice President And Director Of Lcirt $112,166 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Karen Geraghty 2014 Major Gifts Officer $112,165 $13,122 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
James R Allen 2013 Research Manager $112,119 $28,637 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Randall Smith 2013 Chief Financial Officer $112,100 $16,092 PUTNEY SCHOOL 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.