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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Michael Kiernan Md 2014 Director $196,354 $38,470 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Brian Kerns 2016 Vp Human Resources $196,055 $57,729 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Joseph Subasic Md 2015 Trustee/Med. Staff Pres. $196,022 $33,144 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Christine Salembier 2017 Chief Operating Officer $195,989 $12,681 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Carl B Linvill 2017 Principal $195,937 $14,343 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Desiree Biesheuvel Md 2013 Psychiatrist $195,880 $28,364 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Martin N Schulman 2015 Chief Of Party $195,835 $11,894 WORLD LEARNING INC
Mary Urquhart 2015 Vp Patient Care Services $195,773 $17,262 SOUTHERN VERMONT HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
Jon A Macclaren 2017 Treasurer $195,700 $0 LANDMARK COLLEGE INC
Stephen Baad 2017 Md $195,528 $29,650 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
David Sanville 2013 Treasurer $195,461 $0 MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
David Sanville 2013 Officer/Cfo $195,461 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
David Sanville 2014 Cfo $195,090 $0 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Mark Tashjian 2014 Headmaster $195,065 $36,335 BURR & BURTON ACADEMY
Shirley Collado 2014 Dean Of College $194,956 $41,293 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Karin Morrow 2015 Chief Nursing Officer $194,887 $8,270 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Katherine Hawley 2014 Secretary $194,710 $31,742 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
John Raser 2017 Physician $194,286 $25,975 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Stephen A Brown 2014 Cfo $194,238 $27,901 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Dr Ira Bernstein 1 2014 Director $194,235 $31,005 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Jeffrey Morse 2015 Ceo/President $194,218 $6,655 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Thomas Beck 2015 Svp-It $194,122 $10,698 VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION
Thomas Torti 2015 President $194,072 $9,926 LAKE CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
John Blaha 2013 Sr Vp Finance & Cfo $194,041 $20,589 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Joshua Bratt Dmd 2016 Dentist $193,932 $8,639 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP 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.