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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
VEPP INC MANCHESTR CENTER $5,533,590 $535,671
VERMONT DAY SCHOOL SHELBURNE $148,778 $534,824
ROBERT AND ANN NEWBURGER FOUNDATION INC ARLINGTON $782,379 $533,254
VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN INC MONTPELIER $215,493 $532,228
ORLEANS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC BROWNINGTON $2,685,336 $529,539
VERMONT STAGE COMPANY INC BURLINGTON $175,035 $528,931
PROJECT AGAINST VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS BENNINGTON $461,121 $528,152
NORTHSHIRE CIVIC CENTER INC MANCHESTER $5,107,378 $528,138
VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER MIDDLEBURY $1,508,855 $527,322
MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER MIDDLEBURY $158,843 $525,039
THE VERMONT INSURANCE AGENTS ASSOCIATION INC WILLISTON $399,513 $524,224
PROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC BENNINGTON $961,263 $524,081
LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC BURLINGTON $3,402,289 $523,642
VERMONT ELKS CHARITIES INC BARRE $1,511,096 $518,273
VERMONT FUEL DEALERS ASSOCIATION BERLIN $506,089 $517,975
KIDS REHABGYM INC WILLISTON $103,009 $517,840
FRANKLIN HOMESTEAD INC FRANKLIN $2,001,624 $517,474
BETHANY BIRCHES CAMP INC PLYMOUTH $2,175,880 $517,327
THE BELLWETHER SCHOOL AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC WILLISTON $228,170 $516,823
HAITI CARDIAC ALLIANCE INC BURLINGTON $263,957 $515,413
VERMONT HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION INC SOUTH BARRE $286,605 $514,771
CAMP DOWNER INC SHARON $940,055 $514,658
LAKE DUNMORE FERN LAKE ASSOCIATION SALISBURY $1,919,045 $514,370
VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION RECOVERY INC MONTPELIER $248,058 $512,224
THE PERRY INSTITUTE FOR MARINE SCIENCE INC WAITSFIELD $345,074 $512,000

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.