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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Steve Nicholas 2016 Vp For U.S. Programs $126,550 $11,569 INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Thomas R Connors 2017 Chief Financial Officer $126,527 $22,761 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Arsalan Namdar 2017 Vp Of It $126,487 $13,454 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Roland G Ransom 2014 Chro $126,403 $20,636 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Linda Phypers 2014 Director Of Health Service $126,376 $0 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Ludy Biddle 2014 Executive Di $126,356 $9,615 RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC
Todd Bauman 2017 Ceo $126,355 $7,171 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Kriss Barker 2016 V.P. Of International Programs $126,336 $10,893 POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
Claudia Kay 2014 Cfo $126,291 $18,485 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
William Verboort 2017 General Manager $126,240 $17,440 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Jennifer Bertrand 2016 Cfo $126,234 $11,403 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Pieter Bohen 2016 President $126,164 $19,135 FARM & WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC
Dr Kathy Pittaway 2014 Clinical $126,095 $15,274 UPPER VALLEY SERVICES INC
L Patricia Stanley 2015 Head Of School $126,051 $0 MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC
Ronald B Miller 2017 Professor Graduate Psychology $126,025 $26,187 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Robert E Simpson Jr 2016 Past President & Ceo $125,999 $24,294 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Barbara Rachelson 2015 Executive Director $125,962 $2,119 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Larry Goetschius 2015 Executive Director $125,959 $12,150 ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC
Manju Bannerjee 2017 Vp And Director Of Lcirt $125,907 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Jeffrey Francis 2015 Executive Dir. $125,903 $31,052 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Parker Riehle 2013 President $125,833 $21,122 VERMONT SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION INC
Eric Grims 2013 Executive Di $125,826 $14,962 NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
Jenne Lorraine 2013 Dir. Of Oper $125,803 $26,174 HOWARDCENTER INC
Diane Mcelhiney 2015 Programmer $125,800 $8,563 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Jim Moulton 2016 Executive Di $125,764 $6,376 ADDISON COUNTY TRANSIT RESOURCES

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.