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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robert Johnson 2014 Assoc. Director $98,706 $12,863 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Gary Clark 2016 President $98,700 $25,044 VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC
Cynthia Moore 2016 Exec Dir $98,682 $0 SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
Bob L'Ecuyer 2016 Rink Manager $98,546 $22,113 DORSET PARK SKATING ASSOCIATION INC
Jonathan Wilson 2017 Coo $98,518 $25,758 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Kenn Sassorossi 2015 Vp - Asset Management $98,500 $0 HOUSING VERMONT
Xanthe Larsen 2017 Secretary/General Counsel $98,400 $0 ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION RISK INSTITUTE INC
Thomas Sell 2015 Coach $98,400 $0 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
Karen Taylor Mitchell 2017 Executive Di $98,385 $2,951 GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT
Darlyne S Franzen 2013 Assistant Secretary $98,242 $37,191 THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC
W Eric Schmitt 2016 Vice President, Asset Mana $98,200 $0 HOUSING VERMONT
Nicole Mace 2015 Executive Dir. $98,121 $9,172 VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
Diana L Petrovs 2013 Cfo $98,111 $2,818 FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD
Diana L Petrovs 2014 Cfo $98,106 $777 FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD
Martha E Maksym 2014 Executive Director $97,979 $16,111 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Martha Halnon 2014 Executive Di $97,977 $9,933 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Gail Auclair 2015 Ceo $97,888 $18,070 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Gaye Symington 2016 President $97,875 $30,683 HIGH MEADOWS FUND INC
Karen Gennette 2016 Executive Director $97,850 $0 CRIME RESEARCH GROUP INC
Jennifer Taylor 2017 Coo $97,815 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Stephen Duclos 2015 Vp-Mortgage Lending $97,813 $3,842 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Michael Zacharias 2016 Executive Di $97,806 $0 COLLABORATIVE SOLUTIONS CORP
Chris Boget 2017 Executive Director $97,768 $23,652 LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
William Bugg 2015 Head Of School $97,680 $45,133 THETFORD ACADEMY
Simone Rueschemeyer 2015 Executive Di $97,649 $2,681 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF 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.