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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Fanning Hearon 2017 Head Of School $136,500 $0 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Robert Sanders 2014 Former Director/Consultant $136,479 $5,912 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Diane M Lander 2017 Assoc Prof Bus Admin&Accting $136,361 $2,140 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Stephen Harrison 2016 Executive Director $136,350 $18,123 NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
Elaine Cashin 2014 Pharmacist $136,206 $19,999 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Patrick Flood 2015 Former Ceo $136,188 $0 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Noel Bactad 2016 Physical Therapist $136,121 $3,401 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Mike Spillane 2017 Business Man $136,100 $6,805 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Max Dupuy 2015 Senior Associate $135,915 $13,112 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Ellen Smith 2017 Vp Of Institutional Advancement $135,873 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
William Shields 2017 Chief Of Technology And Procurement $135,836 $1,337 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Mike Counter 2013 Vp Of Finance/Treasurer $135,826 $7,267 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Noel Bactad 2017 Physical Therapist $135,826 $8,744 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Bethany Bishop 2013 President/Secretary $135,817 $6,953 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE VERMONT STATE
Monika Bissell 2015 Vp Of Academic Affairs $135,779 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Marcos Stafne 2017 Executive Director $135,766 $19,764 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Todd Ormiston 2016 Head Of School $135,723 $0 MOUNT SNOW SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Paul Calandrella 2013 Chief Operating Officer $135,700 $36,071 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Carolyn B Duffy 2015 Professor Applied Linguistics $135,649 $13,650 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
John Sayles 2016 Ceo $135,571 $20,544 VERMONT FOODBANK
Sandra Rousse 2017 President & Ceo $135,484 $21,593 CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Emily R Newick 2015 Chief Operating Officer $135,451 $20,467 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Melvin Miller 2015 Psychology Professor $135,408 $27,733 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Dave Adams 2017 Chief Of Program Operation $135,350 $31,474 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
David Westerman 2014 Geology Professor $135,343 $23,745 NORWICH UNIVERSITY

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.

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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.