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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sunder Ramaswamy 2013 President, Monterey $287,994 $130,260 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Dennis Henzig 2014 Anesthesiologist $287,965 $35,895 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Cheyenne Holland 2016 Treasurer, Cfo/Vp Fiscal Srvs $287,389 $44,852 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
William Vranos 2016 Orthopedics $287,282 $14,432 BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Thomas W Lovett 2017 Headmaster $286,762 $87,573 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Dr Mark Fung 1 2016 Director (At Large) $286,661 $26,961 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Mr Thomas W Lovett 2016 Headmaster $286,609 $72,354 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Cecil Beehler Md 2014 Chief Medical Officer $286,489 $22,202 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Richard Vincent 2014 Cfo (As Of 9/2015) $286,445 $44,592 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
William Burger 2016 Vp Communications & Chief Marketing Officer $286,011 $143,733 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Dorothea Degutis 2016 Medical Director $285,641 $14,932 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Jon-Richard Knoff 2013 Provider $285,390 $43,210 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Edward T Ogorzalek 2014 Cfo & Vp Fiscal Services $285,177 $52,393 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Cheyenne Holland 2015 Treasurer, Cfo/Vp Fiscal Srvs $284,736 $43,861 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
William C Potter 2015 Director Of Cns $284,597 $56,361 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Melvyn Patashnick 2013 President And Ceo $284,559 $34,840 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Frederick Engstrom 2014 Chief Medical Officer $284,482 $27,414 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Dr Ira Bernstein 1 2013 Director $284,397 $45,181 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Moss J Linder Md 2015 Physician $284,085 $30,365 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Carol A Conroy 2015 Vp Cno $283,686 $13,827 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Christina Oliver 2016 Vp Clinicial Services $283,049 $45,792 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Greg Robinson 2015 Vp Finance Ocv $282,954 $10,268 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Frederick Engstrom 2017 Staff Psychiatrist $282,836 $38,956 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Moss J Linder Md 2014 Physician $282,035 $28,489 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Richard Baker 2015 Physician $281,918 $46,458 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION 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.