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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Katie Smithabbott 2015 Vp Student Affairs And Dean $163,715 $61,038 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Elicia Thompson 2013 Dentist $163,593 $17,268 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Richard Smith 2016 President $163,574 $15,883 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Robert Duncan 2014 Psychiatrist $163,565 $20,733 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Zien Jimmy H 2015 Former Executive Director $163,509 $8,315 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Steve Schutlz 2017 Chief Human Resources Offi $163,504 $4,134 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Fred Erdman 2017 Cfo, Secretary & Treasurer $163,466 $11,987 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Margaret Barry 2014 Assoc Dean Clinical & Experiential Programs $163,432 $21,138 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Elizabeth Gamache 2016 Director, Efficiency Vermont $163,352 $1,927 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Robert Primeau 2015 Physician $163,260 $29,180 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Mark Latham 2013 Vice Dean For Academic Affairs $163,249 $3,455 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Overtree Christopher E 2017 Executive Director $163,236 $42,855 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Terence Field 2013 Svp-Finance $163,199 $14,316 VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION
Paula Willoquet-Maricondi 2016 Dean $163,193 $26,343 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Judi K Fox 2015 Cfo Beginning 7/2016 $163,135 $42,240 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Janine L Migden-Ostrander 2014 Principal $163,111 $24,275 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Warren Leon 2015 Cesa Executive Director $163,061 $26,732 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Michele Richardson 2014 Vice President $163,050 $32,545 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Alya Reeve 2015 Psychiatrist $162,962 $30,476 UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Lynne Ballard 2014 Associate Provost $162,917 $35,312 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Ronald Hallman 2016 Vp Public Relations $162,890 $30,756 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Gary Young 2015 1St Class Lineworker $162,843 $42,657 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Geraldine S Knortz 2015 Director Of Athletics $162,809 $10,819 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Matthew Monk 2016 Academic Dean $162,805 $27,258 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Denis J Hynes 2013 Project Director $162,775 $21,809 WORLD LEARNING 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.