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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kenn Sassorossi 2014 Vp - Asset Management $93,069 $12,482 HOUSING VERMONT
Ellen Kahler 2016 Executive Di $93,036 $10,596 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
Andrew Winter 2013 Executive Director $93,017 $9,505 TWIN PINES HOUSING TRUST
Anthony Iazzo 2014 Executive Director $93,013 $0 BROOKHAVEN HOME FOR BOYS INC
Tamara Mount 2017 Head Of School $92,999 $0 HILLTOP MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
Peter Cobb 2015 Executive Direc $92,938 $2,788 VERMONT ASSEMBLY OF HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE AGENCIES INC
J Michael Smiles 2016 Executive Director $92,819 $10,810 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INCORPORATED
Cornelia Carey 2016 Executive Di $92,814 $22,071 CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC
Jennifer Taylor 2016 Coo $92,778 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Robert Johnson 2013 Assoc. Director $92,768 $12,224 VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC
Ellen Kahler 2014 Executive Di $92,718 $9,638 VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
David Brace 2013 Former Cfo $92,665 $17,006 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Forest Weyen 2015 Executive Director $92,527 $8,551 TOWN OF BENNINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC
Lauren Wooden 2016 Executive Director $92,512 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
William White 2016 Admin (6/16- $92,502 $0 GREENSBORO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC
Steven J Lutton 2015 Director Of Admissions/Director $92,500 $27,155 VERMONT HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER INC
Melanie Goodman 2014 Executive Di $92,496 $14,909 YOUTH CATALYTICS INC
Erin Sigrist 2017 President $92,478 $0 VERMONT RETAIL AND GROCERS ASSOCIATION INC
Chris Halnon 2016 Vp Finance $92,426 $13,153 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Brenda Strysko 2013 Nurse Practitioner $92,407 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Joseph Tymecki 2014 Cto $92,306 $19,042 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Travis Marcotte 2017 Executive Director $92,288 $8,073 INTERVALE CENTER INC
Zeke Davisson 2017 Executive Director $92,250 $546 KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION
Thomas Mauhs-Pugh 2015 Vp Academic $92,225 $2,154 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
Thomas Mauhs-Pugh 2016 Vp Academic $92,225 $3,413 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE

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.