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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Faith Brown 2013 Cfo $108,837 $0 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Yvonne Lockerby 2014 Vp Of Health Center Ops $108,811 $6,355 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Brad Ellis 2013 Exec. Direct $108,760 $3,263 VERNON ADVENT CHRISTIAN HOME INC
Huppee Jane P 2014 Cfo $108,701 $6,794 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Emily Mastaler 2014 Coo $108,685 $12,492 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Mr James Mazzonna 2015 Chief Information Officer $108,674 $9,865 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Robert Gibson 2014 V.P. - Marke $108,661 $15,390 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Jon Freeman 2016 President $108,616 $15,634 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Jon Freeman 2017 President $108,601 $17,194 NORTHERN COMMUNITY INVESTMENT CORP
Claire Wurmfeld 2015 Cfo $108,540 $9,275 SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE
Amos Turner 2016 Line Foreman $108,487 $30,948 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Alexander S Webb 2013 President $108,474 $6,805 SHELBURNE FARMS
Michael Luciani 2014 Vp Of Student Affairs $108,465 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Mary Beth Pinard 2015 Executive Director $108,449 $0 VERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
Vaughn T Collins 2014 Executive Director $108,417 $13,988 VERMONT STATE DENTAL SOCIETY
Philip T Susmann 2015 President $108,408 $45,053 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Sandra Mcguire 2014 Fin. & Oper. $108,376 $26,489 HOWARDCENTER INC
Kelly Bishop 2017 Cfo $108,373 $17,339 CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Brenda Schill 2017 Executive Director (Jan. - Sept. 2017) $108,355 $0 EASTVIEW AT MIDDLEBURY
Iloiko Eley 2014 Fcs Director $108,339 $13,298 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Matthew Derr 2017 President $108,303 $20,949 STERLING COLLEGE
Michael Schultz 2016 Lead Software Developer $108,169 $7,341 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Rebecca T Geary 2017 Executive Dir. $108,159 $20,441 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Cheryl Willette 2017 Director Of $108,140 $44,120 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Stephanie Rust 2014 Director, Washington, D.C. Office $108,124 $19,877 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

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.