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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard Green Left 10915 2015 Ed Of Communications $100,417 $11,763 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Kathy Benoit 2016 Finance Dir. $100,385 $6,117 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Eric Grims 2014 Executive Di $100,378 $11,214 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Jamie Belchak 2015 Rehab Manager $100,370 $15,517 VNA & HOSPICE OF THE SOUTHWEST REGION INC
Ellen Malone 2016 Disability D $100,347 $4,715 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Stuart Lopez 2014 Database Ana $100,344 $21,481 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Sven Birkerts 2014 Writing Seminars Director $100,337 $7,045 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Seline H Skoug 2013 Director $100,308 $0 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INCORPORATED
Marilyn B Miller 2017 Executive Direc $100,300 $20,170 VERMONT AUTOMOBILE DEALERS INC
Darlyne S Franzen 2015 Assistant Secretary $100,273 $54,282 THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC
Robert Johnson 2015 Assoc. Director $100,236 $12,436 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Bryant Morgan 2014 Chief Budget & Planning Officer $100,219 $25,480 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Eric Avildsen 2014 Exec. Direct $100,160 $3,106 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
Brett A Smith 2016 Cfo $100,142 $0 ONE CREDIT UNION
Tom Hark 2015 Outgoing Ed $100,056 $18,312 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
Andrew Stickney 2015 Vice Preside $100,007 $9,592 VERMONT CENTER FOR EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES INC
Concetta Sanderson 2014 Executive Director $100,000 $0 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Matthew Derr 2013 President $100,000 $16,645 STERLING COLLEGE
Zeke Davisson 2016 Executive Director $100,000 $0 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Steven J Lutton 2017 Director Of Admissions/Director $100,000 $29,526 VERMONT HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER INC
Robert Wolterstorff 2014 Executive Director $100,000 $0 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
David Berge 2015 President $100,000 $0 UNDERDOG FOUNDATION
Rev Tm Moore 2015 Chairman $99,980 $0 FELLOWSHIP OF AILBE
Mike Gardner 2014 Finance Director/Treasurer $99,975 $7,509 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Van Chesnut 2014 Executive Director $99,902 $20,326 ADVANCE TRANSIT 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.