Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Organization name

Registered location

Mission category

Annual revenue

Assets

Organization	City	Assets	Revenue
PINE FOREST INC	BURLINGTON	$113,941	$1,040,590
SPRUCE PEAK ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC	STOWE	$6,961,638	$1,040,507
UPPER VALLEY AMBULANCE INC	FAIRLEE	$462,682	$1,037,974
NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER	EAST CHARLESTON	$1,703,153	$1,036,727
NATIONAL ELEVATOR BARGAININGASSOCIATION	BRATTLEBORO	$900,929	$1,036,356
VERMONT LOW INCOME TRUST FOR ELECTRICITY INC	ESSEX JUNCTION	$10,001,546	$1,034,746
NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTSINC	BRATTLEBORO	$2,620,026	$1,032,077
DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL	DORSET	$717,653	$1,024,226
LAMOILLE COUNTY COURT DIVERSION PROGRAM INC	HYDE PARK	$533,112	$1,023,975
LAKE CHAMPLAIN CANCER RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC	ESSEX JUNCTION	$24,265,541	$1,008,150
FRANCIS HOME PROVIDERS SERVICES INC	COLCHESTER	$6,070	$1,005,914
THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC	NORWICH	$911,796	$1,003,814
CARLOS OTIS STRATTON MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC	STRATTON MTN	$3,008,127	$1,003,368
FRIENDS IN ADOPTION INC	POULTNEY	$1,566,465	$994,034
THE DREAM PROGRAM INC	WINOOSKI	$782,138	$992,321
LEGAL SERVICES LAW LINE OF VERMONT INC	BURLINGTON	$131,109	$987,231
NORTHEASTERN BAPTIST COLLEGE INC	BENNINGTON	$862,201	$984,365
LYNDON RESCUE INC	LYNDONVILLE	$235,447	$982,588
VERMONT COMMITTEE FOR AIDS RESOURCES EDUCATION & SERVICES	BURLINGTON	$85,805	$977,717
MEMBERS 1ST CREDIT UNION	BRATTLEBORO	$15,558,030	$973,701
GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CORPORATION	BENNINGTON	$3,141,277	$968,650
VERMONT BAR ASSOCIATION	MONTPELIER	$1,728,922	$964,843
SOUTH MAIN STREET HOUSING TR INC	WHITE RIVER JUNCTION	$7,161,926	$963,066
STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD	STOWE	$5,145,954	$957,294
THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY	HARDWICK	$2,308,345	$954,202

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.

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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.