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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Bethaney M Laclair 2016 Chief Of Staff And Corporate Secretary $142,673 $35,629 WORLD LEARNING INC
Ludy Biddle 2016 Executive Di $142,582 $5,423 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Teresa M Pausic 2013 Divisional Vice President Idep Operations $142,567 $13,523 WORLD LEARNING INC
Emily R Newick 2016 Chief Operating Officer $142,509 $21,506 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Jeffrey Wimette 2017 Business Manager/Financial $142,494 $34,181 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
James Budis 2017 Vice President $142,395 $14,850 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Richard Courcelle 2016 Pres/Ceo $142,311 $19,404 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Richard Hommel 2014 Svp-Retail $142,282 $30,048 VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION
Edmund Hmoore Iv 2015 Cfo $142,054 $8,889 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Gerald Ghazi 2014 President/Director $142,000 $21,449 VERMONT HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER INC
Nancy Owens 2015 President $142,000 $0 HOUSING VERMONT
Lauren Wobby 2016 Cfo/Treasurer $141,936 $37,562 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Lynn Smith 2017 Administrato $141,925 $0 THE MANOR INC
Greg Matthews 2014 Vp Of Enrollment Management $141,869 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Glenn Cordner 2013 Former Ceo/President $141,811 $30,458 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Katherine Hawley 2013 Secretary $141,708 $24,601 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Pearl Teague 2013 Past Controller $141,693 $33,330 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Murray Benner 2014 Executive Director $141,653 $0 SPECIAL SERVICES TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
Robert Backus Md 2013 Family Physician $141,602 $21,014 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Tammy Jackson 2016 Ct Project Director $141,601 $1,300 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Katharine Laud 2013 Vp For Finance And Admin $141,577 $35,674 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
James Manahan 2014 Vice President $141,572 $13,298 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Viviana Waisman 2016 President & Ceo $141,569 $2,500 WOMENS LINK WORLDWIDE INC
Michelle Heezen 2013 Vp Phys. Svcs Until 5/31/13 $141,395 $11,724 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Steven Dear 2013 Head Of School $141,338 $11,944 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.