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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard Smith 2014 President $153,239 $15,208 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Casey Patunoff 2014 Psychiatrist $153,214 $6,010 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Barbara A Caparulo Psyd 2014 Director Of Quality In Applied Clinical Practice $153,135 $11,447 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Patricia Richards 2017 General Mana $153,093 $55,854 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Michael Dworkin 2013 Professor Of Law $153,060 $14,366 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Daren Houck 2016 Headmaster (Terminated 6/30/17) $153,053 $38,105 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Michael J New Thru 62017 2017 Vp Human Resources $153,046 $8,117 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Linda Scala Ms 2016 Ct Director Of Human Resou $153,035 $1,081 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Roger Soll Md 2013 President $153,009 $4,590 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
David Donahue 2013 Secretary $152,926 $88,942 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Scott Lansell 2013 Divisional Vice President Idep $152,908 $7,699 WORLD LEARNING INC
Dean Lawson 2015 Professor $152,892 $32,269 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
David C Farnsworth 2015 Senior Associate $152,647 $13,869 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Robin Turnau 2013 President & Ceo $152,630 $24,262 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Dave Littell 2016 Principal $152,630 $25,273 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
James Cross 2015 Associate Provost $152,629 $24,443 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Dr Mose Snyder 2016 Dentist $152,571 $13,758 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Steven Dear 2015 Head Of School $152,559 $29,633 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
John Ajamie 2014 Physician $152,528 $16,103 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Elisha Mclam 2013 Md $152,483 $12,324 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Julie Broadway 2013 Executive Director $152,465 $7,443 AMERICAN MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC
Melissa Scanlan 2016 Professor Of Law $152,438 $12 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Aly Richards 2016 Chief Executive Officer $152,353 $16,150 THE PERMANENT FUND FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC
Grace Gilbert-Davis 2015 Chief Executive Officer $152,248 $19,460 BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Rachel Henry 2015 Vice President, Operations $152,135 $24,916 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.