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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
David Berge 2017 President/Sec $133,000 $0 UNDERDOG FOUNDATION
Scott Comeau 2014 Chief Financial Officer $132,977 $13,368 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Sandra Rousse 2015 President & Ceo $132,864 $15,685 CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Lorraine Atwood 2014 Vp Of Finance $132,817 $22,334 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Catherine Cullen 2015 Director Of Therapy Servic $132,810 $7,105 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Lorraine Atwood 2015 Vp Of Finance $132,756 $26,273 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Matt Cota 2014 Executive Di $132,679 $0 VERMONT FUEL DEALERS ASSOCIATION
Brian Fogg 2017 Ceo $132,440 $0 CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT
Lynn Smith 2016 Administrato $132,343 $0 THE MANOR INC
Margaret Bolton 2017 Psychiatrist $132,241 $4,648 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Frank Cioffi 2014 President $132,060 $73,303 GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP
Mary F Bisselle 2014 Head Of School $132,000 $20,225 MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC
Gilbert Livingston 2017 President (Thru 12/17) $131,993 $24,869 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Dan Hoxworth 2016 Executive Director $131,905 $6,196 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
Dr Anne E Dixon 1 2014 Director (At Large) $131,894 $9,415 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Sharon Fine 2013 Physician $131,729 $22,723 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Allie Stickney 2014 Ceo & President (Former) $131,721 $6,831 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Ronald B Miller 2014 Professor Graduate Psychology $131,672 $24,914 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Albert Deciccio 2013 Provost $131,631 $6,792 SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE
David Willis 2017 Chief Operating Officer $131,626 $23,792 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
John Sayles 2015 Ceo $131,608 $19,452 VERMONT FOODBANK
Jeffrey Tieman 2016 President $131,593 $3,264 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
David Simmons 2016 Employee $131,586 $24,459 THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC
Sarah Morgan 2013 Physician $131,584 $22,544 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Marcos Stafne 2016 Executive Director $131,504 $16,668 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE

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.