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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.
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Organization City Assets Revenue
COMING CLEAN INC BRATTLEBORO $279,432 $826,128
MADSONIAN CORPORATION WARREN $2,123,089 $819,573
COLUMBUS SMITH ESTATE TRUST INC SALISBURY $1,352,260 $818,984
COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC MORRISVILLE $9,972,034 $817,013
NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC BRATTLEBORO $2,404,413 $817,002
SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER BURLINGTON $3,339,428 $815,783
BENNINGTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC SHAFTSBURY $7,907,730 $814,334
HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILDRENS CENTER INC WATERBURY $1,863,796 $802,271
ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF VERMONT INC MONTPELIER $970,962 $794,917
BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORP REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS II INC BRATTLEBORO $23,840,745 $789,268
CENTER FOR WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC CORINTH $858,962 $787,210
VETERANS PLACE INC NORTHFIELD $1,089,384 $783,979
TRANSITION II INC BURLINGTON $2,205,268 $777,642
GREATER BURLINGTON INDUS CORP BURLINGTON $3,726,789 $775,221
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY BURLINGTON $252,299 $771,773
GEORGE W MERGENS FOUNDATION MILTON $18,949,314 $767,856
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK OF VERMONT INC MONTPELIER $716,249 $766,461
VERMONT CHILDRENS TRUST FOUNDATION BURLINGTON $851,846 $765,486
GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINIC INC WHITE RIVER JUNCTION $1,115,197 $763,902
MANCHESTER HEALTH SERVICES INC MANCHESTR CENTER $0 $763,688
NEWSTORY CENTER INC RUTLAND $538,248 $762,000
VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF AREA AGENCIES ON AGING INC WINOOSKI $359,942 $759,408
LYDIA B STOKES FOUNDATION VERGENNES $5,564,511 $755,680
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES PRACTICE GROUP BURLINGTON $787,910 $753,960
REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORK INC BURLINGTON $985,920 $746,911

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.

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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.