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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF VERMONT WOODSTOCK $0 $0
WOODSTOCK NURSERY SCHOOL WOODSTOCK $17,376 $74,644
WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY TRUST INC WOODSTOCK $0 $0
ROCK CHURCH INC WOODSTOCK
RISING PHOENIX FOUNDATION INC WOODSTOCK $7,188 $2,101,070
THE PROSPER VALLEY SCHOOL TRUST WOODSTOCK $0 $0
PENTANGLE WOODSTOCK
VERMONT FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS ASSOCIATION WOODSTOCK $528,603 $131,118
VERMONT ALPINE RACING ASSOC INC WOODSTOCK
CHANGE THE WORLD KIDS INC WOODSTOCK $31,371 $117,111
CROSS COUNTRY SKI AREAS ASSOCIATION WOODSTOCK $63,079 $154,186
WOODSTOCK BURYING GROUND ASSOCIATION WOODSTOCK $0 $0
WILLIAM & GAYLE CHORSKE FAMILY FOUNDATION LTD WOODSTOCK
MERTENS HOUSE INC WOODSTOCK $27,752,047 $3,165,720
ZACK S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC WOODSTOCK $800,835 $464,060
OLD DOG DOCUMENTARIES INC WOODSTOCK $83,282 $82,253
WOODSTOCK AREA JEWISH COMMUNITY INC WOODSTOCK $1,101,864 $212,279
LAKOTA CLUB WOODSTOCK $916,715 $126,543
BOG CHAPEL WOODSTOCK $20 $8,845
WOODSTOCK HISTORY CENTER INC WOODSTOCK $2,949,524 $276,230
GREEN MOUNTAIN DISASTER RELEF TEAM WOODSTOCK
WOODSTOCK POLICEMENS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION WOODSTOCK $0 $0
THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC WOODSTOCK $102,123,760 $344,020
VERMONT-NEW HAMPSHIRE MARKETING GROUP INC WOODSTOCK $57,258 $65,554
WOODSTOCK RIFLE AND PISTOL CLUB WOODSTOCK $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.