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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Larry Sisson Md 2013 Physician $496,122 $46,722 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Sunder Ramaswamy 2014 President, Monterey $495,908 $112,891 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Dr Kristen Destigter 1 2014 Director $493,999 $51,054 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Richard Marasa Md 2014 Director $493,473 $0 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
Thomas Dee 2016 Ceo $492,388 $116,080 SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
John Braun Md 2015 Physician $492,087 $15,700 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Thomas W Huebner 2015 President/Ceo $490,485 $74,553 RUTLAND HOSPITAL INC
Mahlon Bradley Md 2014 Physician $489,955 $34,451 CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Susan Baldridge 2016 Evp & Provost $489,767 $92,974 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Ronald Liebowitz 2014 President $489,582 $95,617 PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Lawrence Sullivan Md 2014 Cmo/Ob Gyn Physician $488,447 $30,666 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Bruce J Leavitt 1 2015 Former Vice Chair (At Large) $486,964 $36,363 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Veronika Jedlovszky 2016 Former Med Staff President $486,821 $52,312 NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC
Dr H James Wallace 1 2016 Secretary (As Of 1/17) $486,612 $28,661 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Sandra Felis Rn 2015 Patient Care Svcs - Chief Nurs $485,349 $7,810 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Russell Postier Md 2013 Director $484,436 $28,902 ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY
Diana J Scalise 2015 Network Svp Stratg & Bus Plan $483,786 $36,873 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Dr Marion Couch 2013 Director (Until 5/14) $483,422 $24,255 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL GROUP
Dr Claude Deschamps 2014 Pres/Ceo Of Uvmmg $483,341 $11,352 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
Kevin Dwyer Md 2014 Orthopaedic Surgeon $482,475 $39,307 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
Robert E Simpson Jr 2014 President & Ceo $481,112 $26,600 BRATTLEBORO RETREAT
Stephanie Neider Md 2016 Dermatolgist $480,243 $36,515 NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER INC
Saul Trevino Md 2015 Physician $478,398 $36,185 COPLEY HOSPITAL INC
David Muller Md 2015 Orthopaedic Surgeon $478,110 $41,896 SPRINGFIELD HOSPITAL INC
Sara Graves Md 2016 Physician $477,941 $29,730 CENTRAL VERMONT 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.