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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Margaret Kenny 2017 Assistant Head Of School $135,232 $8,937 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Dr Charles Seleen 2017 Executive Di $135,154 $1,762 VERMONT DENTAL CARE PROGRAM INC
Dr Charles Seleen 2016 Executive Di $135,109 $5,430 VERMONT DENTAL CARE PROGRAM INC
Dave Gallaway 2017 Ct Program Director $135,094 $4,134 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Linda Phypers 2015 Director Of Health Center $135,026 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Jeffrey Hebert 2013 Cfo $134,995 $7,344 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Zien Jimmy H 2013 Executive Director $134,951 $12,153 ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
Thomas Descoteaux 2014 Engineering Professor $134,880 $22,836 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
James Budis 2015 Vice President $134,758 $18,979 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Arsalan Namdar 2016 Vp Of It $134,722 $10,389 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Pearl Teague 2014 Former Controller $134,642 $9,748 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Pamela Parsons 2015 Exec. Direct $134,629 $15,479 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Trisha Ingalls 2016 Chief Executive Officer $134,616 $0 GILMAN HOUSING TRUST INC
Tina Bleau 2017 Psychologist $134,529 $15,618 NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC
Zafir G Bludevich 2014 Sr Assoc. Athletic Director $134,431 $8,699 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Douglas Bouchard 2015 Executive Di $134,407 $10,432 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Noel Bactad 2014 Physical Therapist $134,383 $7,189 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Ellen Smith 2016 Vp Of Institutional Advancement $134,376 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Judith Tietz 2017 Medical Dire $134,355 $0 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Mark Redmond 2017 Executive Di $134,308 $23,831 SPECTRUM INC
Marcus Walker 2013 Director Of Operations, Dc $134,252 $11,092 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Mike Spillane 2015 President & Ceo $134,239 $0 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Nancy Owens 2013 President $134,150 $17,121 HOUSING VERMONT
Mike Spillane 2013 President & Ceo $134,144 $420 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Melissa Volansky Md 2016 Executive Medical Director $134,080 $7,157 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP 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.