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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Brenda Torpy 2014 Chief Executive Officer $131,380 $0 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Roger Soll Md 2016 President $131,331 $3,940 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Jason Richardson 2014 Chief Financial Officer $131,284 $32,010 AREA RESOURCE FOR INDIVIDUALIZED SERVICES INC
Marie Zura 2015 Division Dir $131,247 $24,939 HOWARDCENTER INC
Margaret Bolton 2016 Psychiatrist $131,221 $4,612 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Gilbert Livingston 2015 President $131,221 $17,406 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Patrick Flood 2014 Ceo $131,188 $0 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Roger Soll Md 2017 President $131,068 $3,932 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Matt Cota 2015 Executive Di $131,057 $0 VERMONT FUEL DEALERS ASSOCIATION
Joseph Byrne 2015 Associate Vp Academic Affairs $130,842 $13,029 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Thomas P Navin 2015 Vp, Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement $130,825 $16,394 WORLD LEARNING INC
Chris D'Elia 2013 President $130,814 $37,004 VERMONT BANKERS ASSOCIATION INC
Alice Means 2017 Vp Quality And Education $130,753 $11,075 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Marilyn Olejnik 2013 Former Cfo $130,717 $1,115 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Melvin Miller 2013 Psychology Professor $130,621 $19,251 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Ke-Wen Wang 2015 Professor Of History $130,615 $8,732 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Jeffrey Francis 2016 Executive Dir. $130,538 $34,937 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Marie Zura 2016 Division Dir $130,508 $17,764 HOWARDCENTER INC
Paul Harrington 2013 Executive Vp $130,504 $27,988 VERMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY
Timothy Shea 2017 Executive Di $130,471 $18,591 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY EXPOSITION INC
Robin Abramson 2015 Former Provost $130,422 $37,784 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Thomas Pour 2015 Tres/Cfo $130,355 $13,105 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Brian Donahue 2016 Cfo, Vp $130,335 $21,666 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Paul Dery 2014 Acting Cfo [Through 09/2014] $130,304 $11,321 WORLD LEARNING INC
Diane Mcelhiney 2016 Programmer $130,192 $8,852 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD

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.