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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Ann Levesque 2014 Director Of Human Resources $106,747 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Mark Metivier 2015 Assis Vp And Controller $106,663 $22,118 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Jay Gundy 2014 Director Of Advancement $106,625 $36,672 VERMONT ACADEMY
Jennifer Rickards 2017 Deputy Director $106,586 $15,143 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Debra Lucey 2016 Advanced Pra $106,529 $0 UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Ellamarie Russo-Demara Do 2015 Director/Med Staff President $106,509 $38,917 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Kenn Sassorossi 2016 Vp - Asset Management $106,500 $0 HOUSING VERMONT
Jeffrey Lewis 2013 Executive Director $106,495 $5,605 THE BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORPORATION
Anthony Vargo 2013 Chief Financial Officer $106,464 $1,323 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Tom Brown 2014 Director Of Human Resources $106,456 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Lorraine Jenne 2016 Chief Operat $106,439 $14,691 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Bryan Kent 2015 Vice President $106,419 $15,218 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT CREDIT UNIONS INC
Heidi Hall 2016 Cfo $106,374 $19,860 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Mr James Mazzonna 2013 Chief Technology Officer $106,315 $13,659 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Thomas Longstreth 2014 Executive Di $106,300 $8,336 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
Savi Van Sluytman 2013 Executive Di $106,265 $43,677 LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Laura Weylman 2013 Physician $106,260 $3,188 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Bob Johnson 2017 Assoc Ex Dir $106,258 $0 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Iloiko Eley 2013 Fcs Director $106,190 $0 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Paul Costello 2016 Executive Direc $106,185 $11,680 VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC
Susan Monica 2016 Cfo $106,182 $17,582 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Edward Mccollin 2015 Scout Execut $106,178 $16,996 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Barbara Noordsij 2014 Psychiatrist $106,175 $14,146 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Ross Powers 2014 Snowboard Prog Dir $106,111 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL & SKI FOUNDATION INC
Julie Cunningham 2017 Executive Director $106,080 $18,135 FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT 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.