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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Robert Beattie Md 2014 Orthopedic Surgeon $681,932 $12,900 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Brian Aros Md 2017 Physician $680,761 $55,818 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Dr Mitchell Norotsky 1 2016 Director $674,964 $28,239 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Robert Beattie Md 2015 Orthopedic Surgeon $671,941 $13,250 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Bryan Huber Md 2016 Physician $664,249 $61,462 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Dr Claude E Nichols 1 2014 Chair $661,265 $34,511 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Dr Howard M Schapiro 2015 Network Chief Clin Integra Off $658,517 $36,259 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Sg Neale Md 2015 Physician $657,467 $46,393 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
John Macy Md 2017 Physician $655,969 $50,201 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Dr Claude E Nichols 1 2015 Chair $653,134 $36,343 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Dr Claude Deschamps 2016 Pres/Ceo Of Uvmmg $652,975 $30,055 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Adam P Buckley 2016 Network Cio $649,890 $47,119 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Judith Tarr Tartaglia 2016 Trustee, Pres/Ceo Until 3/2017 $648,492 $20,620 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Bruce Tranmer 1 2016 Physician, Neurology $646,006 $26,746 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Stephanie Landvater 2014 Orthopedic Surgeon $643,173 $45,991 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Robert Beattie Md 2016 Orthopedic Surgeon $642,844 $12,715 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Benjamin Rosenberg Md 2015 Past Director $638,855 $12,036 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Eric Benz Md 2015 Physician $638,271 $38,426 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Dr Glenn D Goldman 1 2015 Division Chief Dermatology $632,773 $51,976 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Spencer Knapp 2015 Network General Counsel $632,261 $45,012 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
John Macy Md 2016 Physician $632,062 $57,245 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
John Macy Md 2015 Physician $631,181 $39,661 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Dr Bruce Tranmer 1 2015 Physician, Neurology $631,181 $28,393 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Dr Michel Yves Benoit 1 2015 Vice Chair Orthopedics $627,658 $36,343 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Dr Stephen M Leffler 2013 Chief Medical Officer $626,071 $45,507 UNIVERSITY OF 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.