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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Madge Buss-Frank 2015 Dir. Qi & Education $158,439 $10,503 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Timothy G Sullivan Ma 2013 Nh State Director $158,394 $25,444 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Dr Robert Zelazo 2016 Physician $158,290 $18,628 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Kevin Perry 2016 Manager Power Supply & Rates $158,284 $26,110 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Yvonne M Garand 2014 Svp-Bus Development $158,283 $30,235 VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION
Ted Mable 2015 Exec. Dir. $157,816 $47,463 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Teresa M Pausic 2015 Sr Director Of Operations $157,748 $14,961 WORLD LEARNING INC
Jon A Macclaren 2013 Treasurer $157,680 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Joseph Bergeron 2016 President $157,560 $26,503 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT CREDIT UNIONS INC
Robert Duncan 2013 Psychiatrist $157,501 $21,445 WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Lois Nial 2017 Chief Financial Officer $157,481 $3,926 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Vera Jones 2017 Coo $157,360 $11,211 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Amy Luz 2016 Employee $157,346 $15,365 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Daniel Holt Gosselin 2015 Engineering Srvs Mgr $157,261 $33,747 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
James Manahan 2017 Vice President $157,177 $14,150 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Mary F Bisselle 2015 Head Of School $157,150 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Ted Mable 2016 Exec. Dir. $157,145 $46,805 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Darren Childs 2014 Former Vp Quality Improvement $157,140 $38,732 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Charles Seleen 2013 Executive Di $157,089 $4,601 VERMONT DENTAL CARE PROGRAM INC
Charles Seleen 2014 Executive Di $157,089 $4,601 VERMONT DENTAL CARE PROGRAM INC
Cheryl Fatnassi 2016 President & Ceo $157,008 $10,281 OPPORTUNITIES CREDIT UNION
Linda Scala Ms 2014 Ct Director Of Human Resources $156,951 $10,887 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Dr Phelan Fretz 2017 Executive Di $156,836 $5,592 LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Michael J New 2014 Vp Human Resources $156,831 $13,815 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
James Manahan 2016 Vice President $156,827 $21,553 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES

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.