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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Joseph Tymecki 2015 Cto $96,827 $18,430 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Robert Litchfield 2014 Administrator $96,773 $13,761 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Gail Potter 2016 Administrato $96,720 $0 OUR LADY OF PROVIDENCE VT INC
Michelle Ollie 2017 Ccs, President $96,707 $20,617 THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES INC
Thomas Longstreth 2015 Executive Di $96,707 $10,998 RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC
James Sturm 2015 Ccs, Director $96,688 $29,858 THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES INC
Anthony Iazzo 2013 Executive Director $96,568 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
William Bugg 2014 Head Of School $96,551 $33,560 THETFORD ACADEMY
Bob L'Ecuyer 2015 Rink Manager $96,514 $21,139 DORSET PARK SKATING ASSOCIATION INC
Stephen J Kelly 2016 Cfo $96,509 $8,810 THE BOMA PROJECT INC
Marilyn B Miller 2015 Executive Direc $96,500 $15,478 VERMONT AUTOMOBILE DEALERS INC
Madeleine Mongan 2013 Vp Of Policy $96,481 $24,657 VERMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY
William Bugg 2013 Head Of School $96,463 $2,850 THETFORD ACADEMY
Mr David Sleeper 2013 Executive Director $96,447 $0 HUBBARD BROOK RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
Kenneth Page 2013 Executive Direc $96,445 $11,484 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Joanne Corbett 2015 Executive Director $96,438 $0 ELDERLY SERVICES INC
Sandra Mcguire 2013 I/C Cfo, Fin $96,429 $23,504 HOWARDCENTER INC
Pam Mccarthy 2013 Executive Di $96,347 $0 VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK
Martha E Maksym 2015 Executive Director $96,325 $16,141 UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
Susanne Shapiro 2017 Executive Director $96,293 $0 VALLEY CARES INC
Thomas Pitts 2014 Cfo $96,282 $11,239 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Forest Weyen 2017 Executive Director $96,252 $8,666 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Jennifer Frizzell 2017 Vp Of Public Policy $96,243 $6,776 PLANNED PARENTHOOD NEW HAMPSHIRE ACTION FUND INC
Siobhan Smith 2013 Vp For Conservation $96,239 $3,788 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Cheryl Thrall 2016 Executive Director $96,217 $14,986 LINCOLN STREET 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.