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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Aly Richards 2017 Chief Executive Officer $155,817 $21,075 THE PERMANENT FUND FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Dr Max Bayard 2016 Physician $155,756 $18,628 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Marian Bourchard 2015 Medical Dire $155,739 $8,594 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Meredith A Mccormac 2014 Country Representative, Pakistan $155,648 $19,348 WORLD LEARNING INC
Victoria Brown 2017 General Counsel $155,644 $26,760 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Richard H Rogers 2016 Exec Dir Of Strategic Mktg $155,560 $30,850 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Jill Lord 2013 Cno $155,554 $12,853 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Douglas Bouchard 2016 Executive Di $155,424 $17,350 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Lynne Ballard 2013 Associate Provost $155,417 $32,868 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Murray Benner 2015 Executive Director $155,410 $7,884 SPECIAL SERVICES TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
James Merriam 2014 Director Veic Operations $155,358 $19,777 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
David Farnsworth 2017 Senior Associate $155,319 $12,099 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Fern Teodoro 2015 Chief Of Party $155,152 $23,661 WORLD LEARNING INC
Elisha Mclam 2014 Md $155,081 $17,381 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
David Firestone 2016 Professor Of Law $155,060 $14,124 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Christine Salembier 2013 Chief Operating Officer $155,025 $10,183 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Jackie Gardina 2013 Vice Dean For Faculty $154,971 $16,884 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Dr Anne E Dixon 1 2013 Dir. (At Large) $154,965 $11,456 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Dr Phelan Fretz 2016 Executive Di $154,954 $5,285 LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Robert Allen 2017 President $154,953 $710 GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE
David Firestone 2013 Professor Of Law $154,802 $17,146 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Kevin Carew 2013 Senior Director $154,763 $23,006 WORLD LEARNING INC
John King 2013 President $154,685 $7,498 VERMONT ETV INC
Richard Ogilvie 2013 Vp Information Systems $154,660 $46,244 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Michael Dworkin 2014 Professor Of Law $154,646 $14,973 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL 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.