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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Gary Young 2017 1St Class Lineworker $149,427 $51,151 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Suzanne Anair 2014 Administrator $149,367 $0 MOUNT ANTHONY HOUSING CORPORATION
Patrick J Gallivan 2016 Secratary Of The Board/ Vpia $149,276 $22,557 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Dr Robert Zelazo 2014 Med Director $149,139 $7,725 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Dr John Young 2013 Psychiatrist $149,131 $16,743 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Erica Hare 2013 College Cfo $149,115 $27,781 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
David C Farnsworth 2016 Senior Associate $149,030 $12,987 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Lewis Holmes Md 2016 Director $148,971 $6,527 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Patrick J Gallivan 2015 Secretary Of The Board/Vpia $148,937 $21,214 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Barbara M Casna 2013 Treasurer/Cfo $148,917 $25,866 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Donald Haggerty 2014 Associate Provost $148,916 $14,373 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
John Killacky 2017 Ceo $148,890 $15,703 FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD
Alan E Ryea 2013 Assoc Vp For Alum Assoc And Ds $148,867 $34,617 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Charles Karparis 2015 Svp-Lending $148,721 $18,369 VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION
James Merriam 2013 Director, Efficiency Vermo $148,689 $16,005 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Erica Hare 2014 College Cfo $148,675 $26,890 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Dr Phelan Fretz 2014 Executive Di $148,615 $2,772 LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
Marcus Walker 2016 Director, Dc Seu Operations $148,593 $22,836 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Mark Hinton 2016 1St Class Lineworker-Group Leader $148,561 $52,647 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Dr Anne E Dixon 1 2016 Director (At Large) $148,271 $39,026 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
William Kaplan 2015 College Vice President $148,035 $29,456 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Susan M Poczobut 2013 Ceo/Treasurer $148,000 $64,313 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
Chris Ingalls 2017 1St Class Lineworker $147,951 $25,040 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Linda Phypers 2017 Director Of Health Center $147,950 $20,885 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Steven Dear 2014 Head Of School $147,948 $17,427 LONG TRAIL 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.