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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.
Organization City Assets Revenue
VERMONT STATE GRANGE INC WORCESTER $0 $0
WORCESTER AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM WORCESTER $0 $0
TERRA NAAM RETREAT CHARITABLE TR WORCESTER $476,523 $61,499
UNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC WORCESTER $54,979 $5,418
AGLOW INTERNATIONAL WORCESTER $0 $0
WORCESTER VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC WORCESTER $0 $0
UNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC WORCESTER $0 $0
MITZVAH FUND INC WORCESTER $0 $0
CAPITAL CITY GRANGE NO 469 INC WORCESTER $399,510 $26,322
WOODSTOCK POLICEMENS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION WOODSTOCK $0 $0
WOODSTOCK BURYING GROUND ASSOCIATION WOODSTOCK $0 $0
WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY INC WOODSTOCK $1,101,864 $212,279
THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC WOODSTOCK $102,123,760 $344,020
WOODSTOCK AREA JOB & VOLUNTEER BANK WOODSTOCK $0 $0
WOODSTOCK RECREATION CENTER INC WOODSTOCK $583,128 $612,091
WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY TRUST INC WOODSTOCK $0 $0
WOODSTOCK UNION HIGH SCHOOL ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION WOODSTOCK $0 $0
HOMESTEAD INC WOODSTOCK $896,478 $917,646
MERTENS HOUSE INC WOODSTOCK $27,752,047 $3,165,720
PENTANGLE WOODSTOCK
FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF VERMONT WOODSTOCK $0 $0
WOODSTOCK UNION SCHOOL TEACHERS ORGANIZATION INC WOODSTOCK $0 $0
WOODSTOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC WOODSTOCK $11,344 $150,565
CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION WOODSTOCK $63,079 $154,186
WOODSTOCK NURSERY SCHOOL WOODSTOCK $17,376 $74,644

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.