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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Caryl Frankenberger 2017 Head Of School $173,977 $44,725 GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC
Scott Comeau 2017 Chief Financial Officer $173,818 $12,294 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Carolanne Marquis 2013 Vp Of Corporate Development $173,811 $10,788 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION
Isabel Roche 2013 Dean Of The College $173,688 $14,373 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Kathleen Allden Md 2014 Psychiatrist $173,656 $17,470 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Mary Urquhart 2013 Vp Patient Care Services $173,578 $31,734 SOUTHERN VERMONT HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
John Wallace 2015 Gen Counsel Complianance Off $173,561 $36,003 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Sarah M Kelly 2017 Vp Enrollment & Marketing $173,487 $36,579 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Peter Hare 2013 Executive Direc $173,450 $0 KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION
Casey Patunoff 2013 Psychiatrist $173,321 $6,792 NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES INC
Christophe Bramwell 2014 Chief Of Party $173,309 $13,429 WORLD LEARNING INC
Kevin Kelley 2013 Ceo $173,226 $15,543 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Lisa M Ventriss 2014 President $172,994 $28,976 VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE
Janine L Migden-Ostrander 2015 Principal $172,973 $27,280 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Ronald Vallario 2013 Senior Physician $172,968 $0 MOUNTAIN VALLEY HEALTH COUNCIL INC
Michael Gagnon 2016 Chief Tech. $172,862 $39,598 VERMONT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS INC
Mary Joyce Md 2013 Trustee $172,663 $50,104 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Thomas Ames 2013 Medical Physicist $172,620 $7,043 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Brian Murphy 2015 Vp/Cfo/Treasurer $172,479 $17,565 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Ross Gibson 2013 Svp Global Hr [Through 2/2014] $172,427 $26,867 WORLD LEARNING INC
Christopher James 2013 Principal $172,421 $11,418 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Dave Whaley 2016 Secretary/Vp Development $172,401 $40,687 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Robert Kenny 2016 President $172,359 $29,499 GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
Kevin Carew 2014 Senior Capacity Building Advisor $172,340 $27,649 WORLD LEARNING INC
Frank Vanecek 2013 Vp Student Services $172,284 $23,884 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.