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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Melodie J Peet Mph 2013 Ct State Director $178,952 $4,000 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Jean Cotner 2013 Vp Of Porter Practice Management $178,946 $23,526 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Salvatore Morana 2013 Past Dir. Professional Services $178,827 $33,142 PORTER HOSPITAL INC
Philip Kiely Md 2013 Doctor $178,826 $30,240 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Brian Murphy 2016 Vp For Finance And Administration $178,813 $24,253 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Rian Stewart 2016 Dentist $178,732 $11,806 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Grant Whitmer 2016 Executive Director $178,706 $27,336 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Warren Leon 2017 Cesa Executive Director $178,679 $25,139 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Thomas E Ames 2014 Medical Physicist $178,629 $6,891 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
David Turner 2016 Vp Physician Services $178,168 $12,988 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Frank Vanecek 2015 Vp Student Services $178,128 $26,034 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Alfred Barber 2015 Physician $178,112 $14,722 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Dawn M Ellinwood 2014 Vp Student Affairs $178,027 $37,705 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Karen A Talentino 2013 Vp For Acedemic Affairs $177,870 $29,517 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Mary Urquhart 2014 Vp Patient Care Services $177,869 $21,963 SOUTHERN VERMONT HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
Lynne Ballard 2015 Associate Provost $177,830 $36,960 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Torin Koester 2017 Managing Trustee $177,745 $0 MCKENZIE FAM CHARITABLE TR
Bonnie Mckellar 2015 Vp Physician Service $177,734 $36,055 SOUTHERN VERMONT HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
Leslie Averill 2014 Vice President $177,672 $35,638 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
John Labert 2013 Crna $177,638 $18,304 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Steven Ciampa 2016 Former Cfo $177,601 $12,370 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Guiyou Huang 2015 Svpaa/Provost $177,588 $34,944 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Melodie J Peet Mph 2015 Ct State Director $177,568 $156 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Zbigniew Golonka Phd 2017 Ct Director Of Behavior Se $177,509 $4,134 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
David Magida 2015 Chief Admin Officer $177,508 $14,195 NORWICH UNIVERSITY

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.