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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
John Fanton 2016 Medical Director $245,455 $11,624 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Judy Peterson 2016 President $245,361 $25,318 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Michael Schoenfeld 2013 Sr Vp & Chief Philan Advis $245,247 $66,820 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Kateri Carmola 2013 Visiting Research Scholar $245,237 $24,016 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Michael Geisler 2015 Vp Risk For Compliance $244,955 $201,803 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Debra Mcquade 2015 Staff Psychiatrist $244,569 $22,441 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Ted Sirotta 2013 Cfo $243,816 $36,988 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Tom Greene 2014 President $243,638 $48,634 VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
Julie Morse 2016 Vp Nursing $243,494 $53,223 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Karen E Gross 2014 President $243,440 $13,295 SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE
Carrie Wulfman Md 2014 Director $243,243 $35,532 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Jeanne Mclaughlin 2014 President & Ceo $242,302 $12,963 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Kimona Alin Md 2016 Physician $241,965 $32,268 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Philip Geier 2016 Exec. Director Davis Uwc Program $241,873 $77,326 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Rassoul Rangaviz 2017 Cfo $241,310 $11,004 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Rachel Disanto Md 2015 Trustee/Md Staff Pres End 9/15 $240,833 $41,169 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Frederick W Weston 2017 Principal $240,665 $17,736 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Frederick Weston 2015 Director/Principal $240,546 $17,544 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Charles Stringer 2013 O/G Cfo - 06 $240,324 $15,631 HOWARDCENTER INC
Timothy Ford 2015 Ceo/President $240,181 $24,382 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Kristofer Anderson Md 2013 Director $240,101 $17,184 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Joseph Perras 2014 Physician $239,706 $24,366 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Richard Morley 2015 Vp Support Services $239,562 $26,033 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Ann Bartlett Md 2014 Anesthesiologist $239,149 $16,676 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
Roger Deshaies 2015 Former Treasurer And Cfo $239,118 $0 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.

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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.