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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jon A Macclaren 2014 Treasurer $162,763 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Sara C King 2017 Cfo $162,699 $16,848 VNA & HOSPICE OF THE SOUTHWEST REGION INC
David Turner 2014 Vp Physician Services $162,526 $8,601 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Frank Provato 2017 Physician $162,475 $4,874 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Donald Johnstone 2014 Executive Director $162,475 $20,526 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Gregory Mairs 2015 Direct. Of D $162,393 $24,938 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
William Clements 2015 Vp Grad/Continuing Studies $162,362 $33,690 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Roger Soll Md 2015 President $162,312 $4,869 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Grace Gilbert-Davis 2016 Ceo $162,149 $7,583 BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Alan Ryea 2015 Vp For Alumni Relations $162,008 $40,441 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Dr Patrick Paldino 2017 Dentist $161,991 $10,364 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Janet Marsden 2013 Secretary/Vp $161,875 $12,776 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Nancy Owens 2017 President $161,850 $33,797 HOUSING VERMONT
Cathy Frey 2016 Mathematics Professor $161,722 $12,140 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Scott R Lansell 2015 Divisional Vice President $161,655 $9,586 WORLD LEARNING INC
Sheila Boni 2014 Admin Director Of Nursing $161,486 $18,466 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Zien Jimmy H 2014 Executive Director (Term 2014) $161,472 $10,771 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Theodore Laskaris 2016 Associate Vice President/Cio $161,450 $56,016 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Robert Primeau 2016 Physician $161,370 $29,214 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Dr Erick Lavallee 2013 Physician $161,350 $6,433 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Murray Benner 2016 Executive Director $161,266 $1,040 SPECIAL SERVICES TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
Elisha Mclam 2015 Md $161,173 $17,083 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Dr Patrick Paldino 2015 Dentist $161,158 $1,275 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Erin Carroll 2014 Director Consultative Services $161,065 $9,165 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Thomas S Clark 2015 Founder & Ceo $161,054 $27,593 GRASSROOT SOCCER 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.