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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
George Hamilton 2013 President $169,440 $27,180 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Mark Hinton 2017 1St Class Lineworker-Group Leader $169,438 $58,517 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Robert Duncan 2017 Psychiatrist $169,385 $28,567 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Kirk Dwyer 2015 Headmaster $169,252 $9,138 BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC
Jennifer Willingham 2013 Md $169,235 $22,445 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
John Cummings 2017 Associate Headmaster $169,026 $67,460 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Jill M Olson 2015 Vice President Of Operatio $169,022 $39,050 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Ruth Crose 2014 Md $169,000 $39,283 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Dr Max Bayard 2017 Physician $168,968 $23,431 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Donna Kiley 2016 Staff Psychi $168,873 $15,097 HOWARDCENTER INC
Gregory Matthews 2017 Vp Enrollment Management $168,731 $43,405 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Dave Whaley 2015 Secretary/Vp Development $168,689 $38,322 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Jon A Macclaren 2015 Treasurer $168,671 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Thomas Beck 2013 Svp-Information Technology $168,586 $15,384 VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION
Lisa M Ventriss 2013 President $168,564 $28,691 VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
Matthew Degroot 2013 Program Director - Asia $168,532 $29,654 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Ruth Crose 2013 Md $168,499 $20,639 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
William Clements 2017 Vp Grad/Continuing Studies $168,486 $22,871 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Linda Bisson 2014 Md $168,386 $20,573 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Kenneth A Colburn 2016 Principal $168,329 $24,552 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Shelley Navari 2014 Treasurer $168,301 $24,356 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Robert Bick 2015 Ceo $168,293 $30,458 HOWARDCENTER INC
Michael Kiernan Md 2013 Director $168,225 $33,024 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Andrew Saal 2013 Md $168,175 $29,883 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Job C Heintz 2013 Chief Executive Officer $167,980 $21,233 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT 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.