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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Heather Stein 2014 Md $159,615 $17,415 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Theodore Trabue 2017 Director Dc Seu $159,578 $26,419 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
David Simmons 2017 Employee $159,541 $25,982 THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC
Daren Houck 2017 Former Headmaster (Term 6/30/17) $159,532 $25,651 LYNDON INSTITUTE
Rian Stewart 2014 Dentist $159,479 $32,940 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
George Karabakakis 2014 Ceo $159,477 $26,059 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
David Gavett 2013 Headmaster $159,430 $27,672 GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC
Erika Schramm 2017 Director, Human Resources $159,319 $10,918 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Catherine Cullen 2017 Director Of Therapy $159,246 $19,780 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Jill Lord 2014 Cno $159,139 $668 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Roger Soll Md 2014 President $159,129 $4,774 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
Richard Smith 2015 President $159,128 $15,332 VERMONT CAPTIVE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION
Shelley Navari 2013 Treasurer $159,038 $24,620 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Sarah Carpenter 2017 Executive Director/Secreta $159,025 $23,913 VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY
Darren Childs 2016 Former Vp Quality Improvement $158,997 $34,197 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Peter Stephenson 2013 Chief Info Sec Officer $158,943 $12,608 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Warren Leon 2014 Executive Director $158,863 $23,662 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Dr Jennifer P Gilwee 1 2015 Director (At Large) $158,799 $36,340 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Elisha Mclam 2016 Md $158,762 $17,129 NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
Mark Hinton 2015 1St Class Lineworker-Group Leader $158,680 $41,909 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Michael J New 2015 Vp Human Resources $158,644 $13,993 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Barry Hulce 2017 Director Evt Operations $158,580 $10,146 VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORP
Susan M Poczobut 2016 Ceo/Treasurer $158,546 $76,292 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
Audrey Wen 2013 Medical Dire $158,493 $22,150 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC
Ralph Provenza 2014 Exec Direct $158,460 $0 UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON 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.

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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.