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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Karl Jeffries 2013 Physician $230,681 $1,689 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
William N Ryerson 2017 President $230,618 $21,032 POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC
Barbara Dalton Md 2013 Family Practice Physician $230,464 $30,033 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Dr Scott B Yeager 1 2015 Director(At Large)(Until 1/16) $230,462 $33,822 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Philip T Susmann 2017 President $230,401 $37,108 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Lewis Milford 2016 President & Ceo $230,344 $36,424 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Moss J Linder Md 2013 Family Physician $230,294 $25,921 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
David Scheider 2013 Physician $230,045 $26,713 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Daniel Caloras Md 2014 Family Practice Physician $229,811 $32,597 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
John Evans 2016 President & $229,342 $40,936 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Matthew Kingsbauer 2016 Physician $228,964 $26,798 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Kevin Ff Quigley 2016 President $228,906 $9,060 MARLBORO COLLEGE
Andrew Majka 2014 Cfo $228,496 $1,854 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Gary Clay Md 2014 Family Practice Physician $228,410 $24,833 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Catherine O'Rourke 2014 Vice President $228,293 $27,972 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Heidi Cruz 2015 Physician $228,267 $24,467 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Christine Hallquist 2016 Chief Executive Officer $227,938 $30,095 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Ewa Arnold Md 2015 Physician $227,936 $31,520 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Catherine O'Rourke 2015 Vice President $227,878 $29,312 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Michael R Del Trecco 2017 Vice President Of Finance $227,708 $49,053 VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
Lance Thigpen 2015 Staff Psychiatrist $227,619 $28,739 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Joseph Smith 2014 Physician $227,544 $19,596 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Katherine Wagner Md 2013 Md Ob/Gyn $227,142 $33,974 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Mark Dorgan 2015 Vp For Development $226,488 $42,426 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Pete Diercksen 2015 Physician $226,444 $47,869 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.