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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Elizabeth B Maloney 2013 Chief Of Party Mulu Prev Progect $140,035 $5,784 WORLD LEARNING INC
Edmund Hmoore Iv 2014 Cfo $140,020 $20,776 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Bethany Bishop 2014 President/Secretary $140,014 $7,322 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VERMONT STATE
Dr Gerald P Ghazi Jd 2016 President/Chairman Of Board $140,000 $15,993 VERMONT HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER INC
Dr Gerald P Ghazi Jd 2015 President/Chairman Of Board $140,000 $16,144 VERMONT HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER INC
Holly Groschner 2017 President $140,000 $15,740 VERMONT ETV INC
David Cawley 2016 Director, Efficiency Smart $139,978 $18,072 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Michael Welther 2014 Physician $139,919 $12,559 BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC
Dexter Mahaffey 2017 Head Of School $139,886 $36,430 VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL
Robert Primeau 2013 Physician $139,833 $23,037 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Dennis Shaffer 2014 Vp For Stewardship $139,735 $8,040 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Madge Buus-Frank 2013 Director Qi & Educ $139,693 $10,038 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Dane A Rank 2016 Administrato $139,664 $2,002 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Mike Counter 2016 Vp Of Finance/Treasurer $139,624 $26,551 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Patricia Donehower 2013 Vice President $139,593 $0 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Shawn Tester 2017 Ceo $139,517 $29,749 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Lisa Kable 2016 Chief Strategy Officer $139,501 $1,498 GRASSROOT SOCCER INC
Rita Laferriere 2015 Director Of Long Term Care $139,474 $7,462 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Matthew Denhart 2017 Executive Dir. $139,352 $17,585 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Mark Birger Benson 2014 Professor Acct & Business $139,331 $12,111 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Paul Dery 2016 Former Acting Cfo $139,271 $10,166 WORLD LEARNING INC
Theodore Trabue Jr 2013 Managing Director, Dc Seu $139,233 $12,693 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
David C Farnsworth 2014 Senior Associate $139,184 $13,558 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Gregory Mairs 2013 Direct. Of D $139,182 $4,866 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
John Sayles 2017 Ceo $139,170 $24,207 VERMONT FOODBANK

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.