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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Thomas Huebner 2013 President & Ceo $456,524 $50,959 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Matthew Zumrko Md 2015 Orthopaedics $454,644 $61,568 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Jeremy Hatch Md 2013 Orthopedic Surgeon $451,843 $20,573 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Richard N Gagnon 2016 Physician $450,286 $28,428 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Gene Wu Md 2015 Physician $449,565 $40,474 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Dr Bruce J Leavitt 1 2014 Vice Chair At Large(Until 1/14 $449,451 $3,162 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Gene Wu Md 2016 Physician $449,244 $46,928 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Dr John J Neuhauser 2017 President/Trustee $448,822 $103,710 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Richard Graham 2016 Urologist $448,637 $50,765 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Donald J Laackman 2015 President $447,486 $74,068 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Leonard Tremblay Md 2015 Ob Gyn Physician $447,258 $25,513 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Ryan Sexton 2016 Physician $446,853 $36,008 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Norman Kenyatta 2015 Orthopedic Surgeon $445,454 $33,488 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Robert Simpson Jr 2013 President & Ceo $445,304 $41,200 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
David Muller Md 2013 Orthopaedic Surgeon $445,176 $41,778 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
Dr Polly Parsons 1 2016 Vice Chair $444,746 $27,910 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Richard Gagnon Md 2014 Physician $444,650 $21,892 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Joseph Woodin 2014 President & Ceo $443,734 $45,370 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Bruce J Leavitt 1 2016 Director (At Large) (As 1/17) $443,608 $36,127 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Richard Graham 2014 Urologist $442,794 $45,991 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Paul Macuga 2014 Chief Hr Officer $441,689 $46,804 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Mark Meredith Md 2014 Physician $439,506 $32,533 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Joseph Woodin 2015 President & Ceo Ending 4/16 $439,446 $31,128 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Ira Bernstein 1 2016 Vice Chair(As Of 1/17) $438,457 $51,184 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Thomas Dee 2013 Ceo $437,592 $85,081 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER 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.