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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
Duncan Dobbelmann 2014 Associate Provost $122,622 $20,832 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Robert Sanders 2016 Senior Finance Director $122,538 $46,125 CLEAN ENERGY GROUP INC
Alice Means 2016 Vp Quality And Education $122,513 $20,271 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF CHITTENDEN AND GRAND ISLE COUNTIES
Barbara Rachelson 2014 Executive Director $122,511 $3,155 LUND FAMILY CENTER INC
Sandra Mcguire 2016 Fin. & Oper. $122,496 $31,232 HOWARDCENTER INC
John Van Hoesen 2016 Vice President $122,477 $14,132 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Roland G Ransom 2013 Chro $122,451 $21,395 HEALTH CARE AND REHABILITATION SERVICES OF SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT I
Karen Geraghty 2016 Major Gifts Officer $122,426 $12,686 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND
Rita Laferriere 2014 Director Of Long Term Care $122,407 $6,549 VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION AND HOSPICE OF VT AND NH INC
Jessie Reynolds 2013 Physician $122,340 $13,518 LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC
Paul Bruhn 2015 Executive Director $122,293 $31,173 PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
Neil Gruber 2013 Past Administrator - Hpnh $122,276 $18,591 PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC
Todd Ormiston 2017 Headmaster $122,250 $0 MOUNT SNOW SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Jeffrey Francis 2014 Executive Direc $122,222 $29,150 VERMONT SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION
Richard Hommel 2013 Svp-Retail $122,161 $12,923 VERMONT STATE EMPLOYEES CREDIT UNION
Randall Smith 2015 Treasurer/Cfo $122,055 $21,272 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
John Barrengos 2017 Admissions Director $122,000 $21,933 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC
Duncan Dobbelmann 2015 Associate Provost $121,960 $21,550 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
Eric Palola 2017 Exec Dir/Sec'Y $121,924 $31,280 GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND
Brenda Torpy 2017 Chief Executive Officer $121,917 $31,760 CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR
John P Kenney 2016 Professor Religious Studies $121,912 $27,060 SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE
Eric W Braman 2014 Vice Pres & Treasurer $121,870 $5,138 NORWICH UNIVERSITY APPLIED RESEARCH INSTITUTES LTD
Brian Donahue 2015 Cfo, Vp $121,856 $25,743 VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO
Renee Bratspis 2017 Physician $121,853 $9,190 FIVE-TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC
Dan Weston 2017 Director Of $121,828 $77,633 WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE 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.