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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Jeffery Wright 2016 Chief Operating Officer $170,931 $24,728 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Bonnie Mckellar 2013 Vp Physician Service $170,921 $23,677 SOUTHERN VERMONT HEALTH SERVICES CORPORATION
Christine Salembier 2014 Chief Operating Officer $170,845 $11,161 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Sharon Fine 2014 Physician $170,825 $25,353 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Kim M Kelly Phd 2014 Vp Clinical Services $170,732 $28,648 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Janine L Migden-Ostrander 2016 Principal $170,729 $27,886 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
Linda Bisson 2016 Physician $170,695 $8,056 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Jeffery Wright 2015 Chief Operating Officer $170,692 $24,652 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Thomas S Clark 2017 Ceo & President $170,688 $20,178 GRASSROOT SOCCER INC
Carol Jenkins 2014 Evp For Global Development $170,563 $6,788 WORLD LEARNING INC
Ruth Crose 2017 Md $170,441 $24,951 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Ruth Crose 2015 Md $170,424 $21,387 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Grant Whitmer 2015 Executive Director $170,393 $42,669 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF THE RUTLAND REGION INC
Dr Erick Lavallee 2014 Physician $170,346 $9,387 RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC
Susan Monteil 2015 Admin Director Of Compliance $170,272 $4,397 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
John Lucas 2013 Evp For Academic Affairs, Provost, Chief Academic Officer $170,254 $14,912 WORLD LEARNING INC
Simone Lessac-Chenen 2017 Physician $170,061 $34,474 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Dawn M Ellinwood 2013 Vp For Student Affairs $170,012 $28,084 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Joseph Lasek 2015 Associate Md $169,990 $35,734 HOWARDCENTER INC
Audrey Wen 2015 Medical Dire $169,857 $14,185 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
William Clements 2014 Vp Grad/Continuing Studies $169,816 $26,360 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Jacqueline M Murphy 2016 Director Of Admission $169,609 $16,974 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Brenda Neff 2014 Vp Patient Care $169,578 $25,790 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Kimberly Bruno Md 2013 Doctor $169,577 $29,880 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Dr Robert Jimerson 2013 Medical Dir. $169,516 $18,263 COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY 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.