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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Amy Putnam 2015 Cfo (7/1/15- $105,059 $7,088 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Van Chesnut 2016 Executive Director $105,055 $18,064 ADVANCE TRANSIT INC
Steve Schutlz 2016 Chief Human Resources Offi $105,033 $1,931 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
David Willis 2014 Assist Headmaster $105,000 $0 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
Mark Redmond 2013 Exec. Dir. $104,975 $13,926 SPECTRUM INC
Nancy Burzon 2015 Fmr Exec Director $104,922 $0 RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORPORATION
Pat Elmer 2015 President & $104,899 $16,404 VERMONT ASSOCIATES FOR TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT INC
Stephen Broer 2015 Behav. Healt $104,887 $6,438 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Philip T Susmann 2015 Vp Strategic Ptnrshp $104,832 $45,053 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Constance Snow 2016 Executive Di $104,807 $4,095 WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC
Yvonne Nicole Lockerby 2016 Vp Of Centralized Operations $104,804 $786 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
James A Finger 2015 Cea $104,797 $11,724 REGIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
Julie Tessler 2014 Executive Dir. $104,790 $15,777 VERMONT COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Todd Bauman 2016 Child & Fami $104,783 $6,144 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
George Demas 2013 General Counsel $104,782 $14,824 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Martha Halnon 2016 Executive Di $104,780 $9,781 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Josh Smith 2017 Executive Director $104,771 $18,551 GREEN MOUNTAIN SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Gary Gordon 2017 Emergency Se $104,719 $20,462 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Ms Beth Choiniere 2013 Assistant Headmaster For Campus Life $104,669 $44,967 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Kathleen Demars 2013 Executive Director $104,661 $25,872 LAMOILLE HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Kevin Ff Quigley 2015 President (As Of 07/2015) $104,615 $5,000 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Debra Lucey 2015 Advanced Pra $104,577 $0 UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Joan Cook Left 41516 2015 Senior Dir Of Major Gifts $104,550 $12,337 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Janice Guyette 2013 Cfo $104,536 $15,260 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
John Barrengos 2015 Admissions Director $104,500 $20,348 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.