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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Madge Buus-Frank 2014 Director Qi & Educ $154,584 $10,249 VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK INC
David Roy 2013 Doctor $154,568 $26,631 COPLEY PROFESSIONAL SERVICES GROUP INC
Liz Sellinger 2017 Ct Program Director $154,546 $4,134 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Peter Stephenson 2014 Chief Info Sec Officer $154,525 $18,368 NORWICH UNIVERSITY
Fred Erdman 2016 Cfo $154,512 $9,400 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Barbara A Caparulo Psyd 2013 Director Of Quality In Applied Clinical Practice $154,502 $12,687 INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Paula Willoquet-Maricondi 2014 Dean $154,445 $23,925 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Murray Benner 2017 Executive Director $154,400 $0 SPECIAL SERVICES TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
Meagan Gallagher 2013 Ceo $154,332 $9,826 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Mary Lee 2013 Associate Vice President $154,308 $39,352 CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC
Sarah Morgan 2016 Physician $154,286 $28,982 NORTHERN COUNTIES HEALTH CARE INC
Kenneth A Colburn 2014 Senior Associate $154,103 $13,318 REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT
David Sanville 2015 Cfo $154,100 $18,619 WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION
Melissa Scanlan 2014 Professor Of Law $154,027 $21,134 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Steven Dear 2016 Head Of School $154,012 $21,413 LONG TRAIL SCHOOL INC
Susan M Poczobut 2015 Ceo/Treasurer $154,000 $72,851 GRANITE HILLS CREDIT UNION
James Darragh 2014 Vp Plant Ops & Nursing Home Admin $153,865 $7,642 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
David Donahue 2014 Secretary $153,863 $108,338 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Brenda Neff 2015 Former Vp Of Patient Care $153,789 $29,589 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Kevin Perry 2015 Manager Power Supply & Rates $153,674 $23,654 VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC
Jackie Gardina 2015 Vice Dean For Faculty $153,615 $20,509 VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC
Mr John Cummings 2015 Associate Headmaster $153,368 $45,287 ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY
Richard H Rogers 2015 Director Of It $153,335 $27,877 HOLSTEIN FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Fred Erdman 2015 Cfo $153,334 $10,304 WAKE ROBIN CORP
Ronald Hallman 2015 Vp Pr & Development $153,251 $32,250 PORTER 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.