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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
William Shields 2015 Employee $121,755 $411 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
Max Dupuy 2013 Senior Associate $121,711 $12,738 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Nick Richardson 2017 President $121,588 $2,963 VERMONT LAND TRUST INC
Louis Giramma 2014 Chief Exec. Officer & Ma State Director $121,499 $28,118 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Jeffrey Wimette 2016 Business Manager/Financial $121,398 $33,719 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS
Mark Redmond 2015 Exec. Dir. $121,339 $19,880 SPECTRUM INC
Renee Kilroy 2013 Former Ceo $121,207 $27,098 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Matthew Derr 2015 President $121,203 $11,850 STERLING COLLEGE
Matthew Denhart 2016 Executive Dir. $121,160 $15,746 CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC
Matthew Dunne 2017 Executive Director - Cori $121,154 $0 SUSTAINABLE FOOD LAB
Barbara Rachelson 2013 Executive Director $121,120 $4,155 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
William Verboort 2016 General Manager $121,066 $9,695 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Stephen Hibbs 2013 Dentist $121,000 $4,601 VERMONT DENTAL CARE PROGRAM INC
Carol Dunne 2017 Producing Artistic Directo $120,962 $36,050 NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY
James Ryan 2017 Executive Director $120,852 $0 NORTHEAST EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING ORGAINZATION INC
Michael Morin 2014 Alpine Program Dir $120,768 $0 STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL & SKI FOUNDATION INC
Ellen Gitomer 2015 Vp Of Development $120,758 $21,704 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Karen Geraghty 2017 Major Gifts Officer $120,741 $11,925 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Robert Ellis 2013 Director Of Provider Relations $120,691 $6,457 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Lynn Mccormick 2016 Psychiatrist $120,640 $0 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
John Van Hoesen 2013 Vice President $120,563 $13,285 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Janet Spitler 2016 Treasurer $120,500 $0 HOUSING VERMONT
Yvonne Garand 2015 Svp-Marketing $120,432 $47,513 VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION
Matt Cota 2013 Executive Director $120,377 $0 VERMONT FUEL DEALERS ASSOCIATION
Gerhard K Friedrich 2016 Partnerships Director $120,322 $21,840 GRASSROOT SOCCER 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.

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.