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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
William Verboort 2014 General Manager $112,065 $6,848 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Jan Demers 2017 Executive Director $112,057 $2,502 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
Christine Apicella 2017 Cfo $112,052 $17,840 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Anne Levesque 2015 Director Of Human Resources $112,043 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
August Burns 2013 Executive Director $112,008 $0 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
Alan Blier 2013 Administrator Ending 12/13 $111,983 $24,450 MOUNT ANTHONY HOUSING CORPORATION
Grace Gilbert-Davis 2014 Chief Exective Officer $111,935 $6,279 BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Jerry Cross 2016 Ceo/President $111,918 $0 ONE CREDIT UNION
Jessica Fisch 2013 Pa $111,887 $27,818 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Sverre Caldwell 2015 Nordic Prog Dir $111,850 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL & SKI FOUNDATION INC
Jon Freeman 2014 President $111,796 $12,473 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Duncan Dobbelman 2013 Associate Dean Of The College $111,788 $18,301 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Bruce E Ingersoll 2016 Camp Director $111,711 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Dr William Raszka 1 2016 Director (At Large) (As 1/17) $111,689 $12,620 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Dane A Rank 2013 Administrato $111,682 $17,168 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Chelsea Gwyther 2013 Vice President Of Advancement $111,662 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Robert Turnau 2017 Cfo $111,617 $17,053 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Kathy Beyer 2016 Vp - Development $111,556 $0 HOUSING VERMONT
Kelly Bishop 2016 Cfo $111,503 $13,211 CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Timothy Shea 2014 Executive Di $111,491 $14,889 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EXPOSITION INC
William Cote 2016 Apnp $111,485 $8,170 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Stephanie Rust 2015 Director, Washington, D.C. Office $111,462 $25,066 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Richard H Rogers 2017 Exec Dir Of Strategic Mktg $111,417 $23,036 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Jennifer Frizzell 2013 Public Affairs Director $111,397 $7,771 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
William Neilson 2016 Treasurer $111,379 $0 BROWN LEDGE FOUNDATION 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.