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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
INDOOR RECREATION OF ORLEANS COUNTY NEWPORT $-9,995 $-3,487,543
BLAKE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION EAST CORINTH $776,578 $-777,246
HEALTHY HOMES FOR BENNINGTON BENNINGTON $251,846 $-138,932
PUTNEY CARES INC PUTNEY $159,374 $-138,794
SUNNINGDALE CHARITABLE TRUST RICHMOND $233,517 $-49,551
CHAMPLAIN NORTH FOUNDATION INC BURLINGTON $0 $-31,693
GRAY BUILDING COALITION INC NORTHFIELD $947,419 $-28,536
FRIENDS IN ADOPTION FOUNDATION TRUST POULTNEY $0 $-18,367
INTER-CARE FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD SOUTH LONDONDERRY $0 $-11,799
PARSON RUSSELL TERRIER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA NORTH POWNAL $5,972 $-6,508
DARLING INN SENIOR MEAL SITE INC LYNDONVILLE $122,412 $-4,314
GOOD STEWARD FOUNDATION OF MORRISVILLE VERMONT INC MORRISVILLE $2,119,519 $-3,530
CONNECTICUT RIVER ANTIQUE ELY $0 $0
VERMONT FLOOR HOCKEY INC WILLISTON $0 $0
TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL THETFORD CENTER $0 $0
MUSKEG MUSIC INC THETFORD CENTER $0 $0
PARKER GUN FOUNDATION WEATHERSFIELD $0 $0
NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH INC WHITE RIVER JUNCTION $0 $0
MARINE CORPS LEAGUE WINDSOR $0 $0
SAINT MICHAELS COLLEGE MERRILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC COLCHESTER $0 $0
BIG HEAVY WORLD FOUNDATION INC BURLINGTON $0 $0
AMUCA ART CENTER INC RUTLAND $0 $0
AMERICAN EMU ASSOCIATION NEWBURY $0 $0
CRYSTAL LAKE PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION INC BARTON $0 $0
AMERICAN MOTHERS INC FAIRFIELD $0 $0

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.