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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Charles L Newfield Phd 2017 Ct Director Of Behavior Se $193,823 $6,634 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Casey Patunoff 2016 Psychiatrist $193,813 $8,526 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Donna Burkett 2014 Medical Director $193,567 $16,438 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Katherine Hawley 2015 Vice President/Secretary $193,441 $32,844 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Kimberly Bruno Md 2016 Physician $193,391 $10,555 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Evelyn Gerretson 2013 Psychiatrist $193,321 $20,922 RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC
Michael Rogers 2016 Vp Fiscal Services $193,099 $38,141 SOUTHERN VERMONT HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
Neal E Robinson 2014 Vp Finance And Treasurer $192,928 $32,795 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Sandra Steingard 2015 Medical Dire $192,750 $20,092 HOWARDCENTER INC
Desiree Biesheuvel Md 2014 Psychiatrist $192,749 $26,312 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Adrian Webb 2016 Psychiatrist $192,591 $9,967 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Jean Cotner 2014 Past Vp Of Porter Practice Mgt. $192,570 $27,001 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
David Goudy 2013 Executive Director $192,490 $22,152 MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE
Mariko Silver 2013 President (Exofficio) $192,441 $80,906 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Todd Centybear 2016 Former Ceo $192,388 $16,131 HOWARDCENTER INC
Heather Stein 2015 Md $192,095 $5,734 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Karen A Talentino 2016 Vp For Academic Affairs $191,900 $32,964 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Shirley Collado 2013 Dean Of College $191,894 $78,511 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Jeffrey Morse 2016 Ceo/President $191,866 $6,855 RIVER VALLEY CREDIT UNION
Philip T Susmann 2014 Vp Strategic Ptnrshp $191,796 $38,899 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Robert Hersey 2013 Cfo $191,778 $28,780 NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC
Stephen A Brown 2015 Cfo $191,763 $31,399 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Sandra Steingard 2016 Medical Dire $191,677 $15,441 HOWARDCENTER INC
Karen A Talentino 2017 Vp For Academic Affairs $191,649 $28,874 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Barbara M Casna 2017 Treasurer/Cfo $191,606 $32,740 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

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.