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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard Gagnon Md 2015 Physician $437,248 $20,213 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Mark Meredith Md 2016 Physician $434,133 $36,938 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Lawrence Sullivan Md 2013 Cmo/Ob Gyn Physician $434,002 $26,195 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Richard Graham 2013 Provider $432,895 $45,509 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Joseph Woodin 2013 President & Ceo $431,483 $45,359 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Mary Kate Fitzpatrick 2016 Chief Nursing Officer $431,362 $28,684 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Peter Eden 2017 President And Voting Trustee $430,104 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Charles Podesta 2014 Cio (Until 9/2014) $429,633 $43,141 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Richard Gagnon Md 2013 Physician $428,911 $34,287 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Mark Meredith Md 2015 Physician $428,572 $35,539 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Dr H James Wallace 1 2015 Director $428,299 $28,677 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Mariko Silver 2015 President (Exofficio) $425,513 $110,065 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Mariko Silver 2016 President (Exofficio) $425,501 $114,693 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Dr Bruce J Leavitt 2013 Vice Chr(At Large)(Until 1/14) $424,340 $33,762 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Richard Graham 2015 Urologist $423,867 $47,358 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Veronika Jedlovszky 2014 Vp Medical Staff $422,773 $48,558 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Mark C Meredith Md 2013 Physician $421,459 $38,887 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Andrew Nisbet Md 2013 Physician $419,673 $30,023 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Lisa Lambert 2017 Staff Psychiatrist $418,678 $3,571 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Richard Schneider 2013 President $417,475 $85,302 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Richard Schneider 2015 President $416,679 $89,528 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Peter Stuart Md 2014 Physician $415,472 $49,223 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Dr Debra Gb Leonard 1 2016 Director $414,851 $27,678 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Theresa Alberghini Dipalma 2014 Svp Of Mrkting & Ext Relation $412,977 $45,041 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Eugene Dixon 2016 Physician $412,775 $20,104 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL 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.