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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Rees 2015 Senior Vp For Institutional Initiatives/Secretary $180,210 $20,039 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Amalia Lee 2014 Physician $180,137 $11,133 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
William O Anderson 2015 Chief Information Officer $180,085 $37,255 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
David Rees 2014 Senior Vp For Institutional Initiatives/Secretary $180,027 $19,338 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Amity Shlaes 2015 Chair & Ceo $180,000 $21,660 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Viviana Waisman 2017 President & Ceo $180,000 $0 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Amity Shlaes 2016 Chair & Ceo $180,000 $22,141 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
David Magida 2016 Chief Admin Officer $179,968 $14,989 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
David Gavett 2014 Headmaster $179,888 $27,863 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Guiyou Huang 2014 Svpaa/Provost $179,877 $32,452 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Steven Monette 2015 Treasurer/Vp Finance & Cfo $179,859 $15,871 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Charles L Newfield Phd 2014 Ct Director Of Behavioral Services $179,811 $28,470 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Paige Bartels 2013 Vp For External Relations $179,766 $15,170 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Dr Robert Jimerson 2014 Medical Dir. $179,755 $16,447 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Lisa M Ventriss 2015 President $179,633 $28,965 VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
Gregory Mairs 2016 Direct. Of D $179,627 $21,453 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Rebecca Woods 2016 Cio $179,576 $37,678 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Roger Fox 2013 Medical Director $179,556 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Steven Sobel 2016 Medical Dir. $179,509 $11,211 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Steven Sobel 2014 Medical Dir. $179,462 $9,866 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Robin Turnau 2016 President & Ceo $179,422 $20,509 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Sandra Steingard 2013 Medical Dire $179,378 $13,174 HOWARDCENTER INC
Thomas Torti 2013 President $179,240 $8,755 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Jeffrey Morse 2014 Ceo/President $179,230 $6,360 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Elisha Mclam 2017 Md $179,092 $17,947 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH 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.