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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Kristofer Anderson Md 2015 Director $323,708 $18,327 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Paul Bengtson 2013 Ceo $323,483 $31,843 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Gopichand Vallabhaneni 2017 Dentist $323,377 $31,349 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Stephen Fischer Jr Md 2013 Physician $323,362 $42,699 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Jeffrey D Horbar Md 2013 Secretary/Treas $323,022 $8,099 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Dr Richard B Watson 2016 Physician Anesthesia $322,623 $48,707 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Debra Gb Leonard 1 2014 Director $322,592 $20,832 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
William A Wood Md 2013 Otolaryngologist $322,565 $28,942 BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Peter Rauert 2015 Physician $321,358 $12,941 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Dr Andre B Gilbert 2016 Physician Anesthesia $321,180 $43,420 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Borzoo Farhang 2016 Physician Anesthesia $321,130 $41,971 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Richard Baker 2016 Physician $320,439 $35,383 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Judith Hayward 2013 Ceo $320,389 $17,105 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Christopher Connor 2015 Physician $319,196 $9,532 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Daniel Wilson Md 2015 Medical Director Psych $318,920 $31,885 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Craig Dreisbach Md 2013 Physician $318,291 $30,124 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Arthur Mathisen 2017 President And Ceo $318,110 $10,922 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Jonathan C Thatcher Md 2014 Orthopedics $317,412 $18,908 BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Mark Heitzman Md 2013 Physician $317,026 $22,045 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Steven Gordon 2013 President & Ceo $316,732 $30,754 SOUTHERN VERMONT HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
Donald K Steinberg 2015 President And Ceo $316,708 $15,479 WORLD LEARNING INC
Philip Brown Do 2013 Vp Medical Affairs $316,523 $24,616 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Sophia Holder 2013 Interim Cfo (12/13-6/14) $316,449 $42,293 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
David Provost 2013 Senior Vice President $316,176 $42,724 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Dr Donald Mathews 1 2015 Director (At Large) $315,694 $46,339 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP

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.