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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Welther Md 2015 Physician $146,620 $19,614 BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Stewart Miller 2013 Headmaster $146,542 $40,477 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Lois Nial 2016 Chief Financial Officer $146,487 $1,348 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Fred Erdman 2013 Cfo And Secretary $146,478 $8,671 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Richard Synnott 2016 Executive Director $146,470 $4,235 SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION
Paul Keene 2017 Ct Director Of Finance Quality $146,396 $4,593 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Sandra Rousse 2014 President & Ceo $146,277 $5,355 CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Theodore Trabue Jr 2014 Director Dc Seu $146,274 $16,824 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Stephen Genereaux 2016 Physician $146,123 $40,682 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
William Kaplan 2013 College Vice President $146,116 $27,969 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
John Killacky 2016 Ceo $146,078 $0 FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD
Steven Rossignol 2017 1St Class Lineworker $146,041 $51,650 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Joseph Bergeron 2017 President $146,008 $27,186 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT CREDIT UNIONS INC
Tao Smith 2015 Headmaster/Trustee $146,000 $0 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
Tao Smith 2014 Headmaster/Trustee $145,999 $0 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
Scott Comeau 2015 Chief Financial Officer $145,907 $20,685 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Joseph Bergeron 2015 President $145,824 $24,916 ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT CREDIT UNIONS INC
David Hill 2015 Distributed Resources Director $145,805 $19,246 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Adam S Weinberg 2013 President And Ceo $145,742 $21,199 WORLD LEARNING INC
David Cawley 2015 Director Efficiency Smart $145,676 $17,356 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Michael J New 2013 Vp Human Resources $145,667 $12,861 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Maryann Zavez 2014 Professor Of Law $145,577 $8,593 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Rebecca Foster 2017 Director, Consulting $145,575 $25,586 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Parker Riehle 2017 President $145,436 $17,752 VERMONT SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION INC
Patrick J Gallivan 2017 Secretary Of The Board/Vp Gca $145,380 $26,367 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE

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.