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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Dr Bruce Tranmer 1 2013 Medical/Program Director $579,265 $26,254 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Dr Bruce Tranmer 1 2014 Medical/Program Director $579,265 $26,254 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Bryan Huber Md 2014 Physician $577,837 $50,619 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Brian Aros Md 2014 Physician $575,977 $44,010 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
Dr Robert Hugh Millay 2013 Physician, Surgery $575,685 $33,911 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Dr Howard M Schapiro 2014 Int Pres/Svp Uvmmg(Unt 6/2014) $575,189 $32,983 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Stephanie Landvater 2015 Orthopedic Surgeon $573,532 $47,444 GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Kristen Destigter1 2016 Director $573,468 $52,763 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Theresa Alberghini Dipalma 2013 Svp Of Mrkting & Ext Relation $572,978 $43,676 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Claude Deschamps 2015 Pres/Ceo Of Uvmmg $572,453 $29,350 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Mitchell Norotsky 1 2014 Director $572,395 $26,711 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Todd B Moore 2013 Svp Accountable Care & Rev Stg $571,992 $40,260 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Joshua Nickerson 1 2014 Physician, Radiology $567,241 $16,311 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Paul Macuga 2013 Chief Hr Officer $566,604 $45,376 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Joseph Shields 1 2016 Physician, Radiology $566,130 $49,131 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Gregory Brophey Md 2016 Ophthalmologist $565,401 $30,764 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Mitchell Norotsky 1 2013 Director (As Of 8/14) $563,486 $26,261 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Laurie L Patton 2016 President $562,875 $95,959 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Terrence L Stull Md 2013 Director & Chair $559,618 $33,125 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Spencer Knapp 2014 General Counsel $559,560 $43,063 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Eric Benz Md 2016 Orthopedic Surgeon $558,180 $8,882 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
David Muller Md 2016 Orthopaedic Surgeon $557,230 $57,381 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
David R Charnock Md 2014 Otorhinolaryngology $557,221 $41,808 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Dr Stephen M Leffler 2014 Chief Medical Officer $556,590 $47,288 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Lawrence Sullivan Md 2015 Cmo/Ob Gyn Physician $556,156 $32,996 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER 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.