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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Max Dupuy 2014 Senior Associate $130,145 $12,419 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Gregory Wight 2013 Engineering Professor $130,138 $20,506 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Gilbert Livingston 2014 President $130,037 $16,618 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Paul Harrington 2017 Executive Vp $130,000 $17,349 VERMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY
Michael Morin 2017 Alpine Program Dir $130,000 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL & SKI FOUNDATION INC
Dr Gerald P Ghazi Jd 2017 President/Chairman Of Board $130,000 $16,173 VERMONT HEALTHCARE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CENTER INC
John Killacky 2015 Ceo $129,815 $6,914 FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD
Claudia Leibold 2013 Cfo $129,780 $9,910 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
James Manahan 2013 Vice President $129,773 $0 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Emily Mastaler 2016 Coo $129,760 $16,507 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Patrick Berry 2017 Vp For Philanthropy $129,731 $7,625 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
John Michael Hall 2015 Executive Di $129,707 $5,293 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
John Michael Hall 2014 Executive Di $129,707 $5,292 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
John Michael Hall 2016 Executive Di $129,707 $0 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC
Parker Riehle 2014 President $129,667 $21,122 VERMONT SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION INC
Blanche Podhajski Phd 2015 President $129,596 $23,222 STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE & LEARNING
Sarah I Miller Mba 2014 Chief Financial Officer $129,583 $21,899 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Jill Olson 2017 Executive Dir. $129,530 $0 VERMONT ASSEMBLY OF HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE AGENCIES INC
Jeffrey Wulfman 2017 Physician $129,409 $4,874 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Lorna Mattern 2017 Executive Di $129,394 $0 UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC
Anthony Vargo 2015 Chief Financial Officer $129,380 $13,971 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Tara Graham 2017 Director - End Of Life Services $129,299 $9,958 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Jim Moulton 2014 Exec. Direct $129,272 $5,926 ADDISON COUNTY TRANSIT RESOURCES
Gilbert Livingston 2016 President $129,254 $24,870 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Mark Redmond 2016 Exec. Dir. $129,241 $21,740 SPECTRUM 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.

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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.