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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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 Willis 2015 Assist Headmaster $127,692 $0 KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
Ellen Gitomer 2016 Vp Of Development $127,684 $19,360 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Michael Monte 2015 Chief Operating Officer $127,533 $0 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Thomas Pour 2014 Tres/Cfo $127,439 $19,348 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Matt Cota 2016 Executive Di $127,374 $0 VERMONT FUEL DEALERS ASSOCIATION
Ronald Miller 2013 Graduate Psychology Professor $127,365 $22,838 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Emily Mastaler 2015 Coo $127,340 $14,208 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Scott Comeau 2013 Chief Financial Officer $127,340 $10,296 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Lynn Mccormick 2014 Psychiatrist $127,310 $0 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Tara Graham 2016 Director - End Of Life Services $127,310 $16,230 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Janet Mccarthy 2015 Executive Director / Pres $127,191 $0 FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC
Matthew Choate 2016 Cno, As Of 12/2016 $127,132 $26,668 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Brenda Torpy 2013 Chief Executive Officer $127,081 $0 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
Randall Smith 2016 Treasurer/Cfo $127,030 $22,480 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Roland G Ransom 2015 Chro $127,029 $15,670 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Dane A Rank 2014 Administrato $126,954 $0 BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC
Frederick Silbernagel 2014 Vp For Oper. & Fin. (Until 03/2015) $126,915 $21,093 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Kyle Sands 2017 Lineworker $126,888 $33,908 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Dan Weston 2014 Director Of $126,861 $40,318 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC
Dan Hoxworth 2017 Former Executive Director $126,843 $6,620 CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
John Shenot 2017 Senior Associate $126,829 $24,240 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Justin Bell 2017 Director Of Information Servicers $126,825 $17,683 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
William Bugg 2016 Head Of School $126,629 $47,659 THETFORD ACADEMY
William J Rider 2017 V.P. Of Finance $126,617 $10,811 POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
Michael Despines 2014 Vp For International Programs $126,580 $13,928 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

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.