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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Sean P Brennan 2014 Head Of School $226,438 $44,502 VERMONT ACADEMY
William Knorr Md 2014 Medical Staff President $226,253 $15,319 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Dr Thomas C Peterson 1 2014 Secretary $226,104 $25,281 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Dr Thomas C Peterson 1 2013 Secretary $226,103 $25,281 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Kenneth Rudd Md 2015 Physician $226,065 $27,537 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Dr Debra Gb Leonard 1 2013 Director $225,965 $6,871 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
David Schneider 2016 Physician $225,689 $50,931 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Cheyenne Holland 2013 Treasurer, Cfo/Vp Fiscal Srvs $225,532 $24,605 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Thomas C Peterson 1 2015 Secretary $225,023 $26,553 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
David Evans 2015 President $225,000 $17,373 SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE
Lewis Milford 2014 President/Ceo/Secretary $224,487 $42,077 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Dr Lewis R First 1 2013 Director $223,328 $25,200 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Robin Turnau 2017 President & Ceo $223,099 $15,493 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Judy Peterson 2015 President $222,976 $18,979 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Timothy Tanner 2015 Physician $222,829 $24,202 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Daniel Caloras Md 2013 Family Practice Physician $222,782 $33,869 SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL CARE SYSTEMS INC
Carol M Egan 2014 Vp Chief Nursing Officer $222,757 $39,539 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Kevin Dailey 2016 Vp Of Hr $222,552 $38,184 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Carol M Egan 2015 Vp Chief Nursing Officer $222,322 $44,489 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Rian Stewart 2015 Dentist $222,185 $22,659 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Carrie Wulfman Md 2015 Past Director $222,007 $32,508 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Michael Rogers 2014 Vp Finance, Treasurer & Cfo $221,887 $45,486 SOUTHERN VERMONT HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
David Jette 2017 Dentist $221,402 $35,434 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Richard Cowart 2013 Principal $221,351 $15,646 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
David Evans 2016 President $221,250 $18,655 SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE

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.