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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Richard Ogilvie 2015 Vp Cio $188,500 $43,230 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Edward Haak 2017 Medical Dire $188,285 $14,331 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Thomas Denenberg 2014 Director $188,193 $26,814 SHELBURNE MUSEUM INCORPORATED
Louis Giramma 2016 Chief Exec.Officer $188,171 $6,634 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Louis Giramma 2017 Chief Exec.Officer $188,070 $3,395 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Jack Donnelly 2016 Ceo (Former) $188,003 $64,688 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Dr Gregory L Holmes 1 2015 Director $187,854 $16,795 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Frank Vanecek 2017 Vp Student Services $187,658 $34,044 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Patrick Mckee 2015 Ceo $187,572 $17,133 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Charles L Newfield Phd 2013 Ct Director Of Behavioral Services $187,308 $28,722 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Lisa Rae 2016 Svp Of Legal Affairs And General Counsel $187,209 $28,291 WORLD LEARNING INC
Robert Kenney 2015 President $187,123 $32,429 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Steven Sobel 2017 Psychiatrist $187,097 $11,580 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Emily Jones 2016 Head Of School $187,050 $18,369 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Emily Jones 2017 Head Of School $187,050 $17,929 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Emily Jones 2015 Head Of School $187,050 $16,707 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Dr Pamela Martin 2015 Dentist $187,035 $19,330 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Melodie J Peet Mph 2017 Ct State Director $187,000 $156 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Dr Robert Jimerson 2017 Medical Dir. $186,841 $20,802 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
Dr Pamela Martin 2017 Dentist $186,836 $23,899 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Thomas Denenberg 2015 Executive Di $186,462 $36,615 SHELBURNE MUSEUM INCORPORATED
Thomas Denenberg 2013 Director $186,462 $22,352 SHELBURNE MUSEUM INCORPORATED
Stephen A Brown 2013 Cfo $186,453 $27,028 CARLOS G OTIS HEALTH CARE CENTER INC
Dianne Probola 2013 Former Vp Of Operations $186,404 $21,712 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Roger Fox 2014 Medical Director $186,275 $8,919 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL 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.