Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Organization name

Registered location

Mission category

Annual revenue

Assets

Organization	City	Assets	Revenue
FOUR WINDS NATURE INSTITUTEINCORPORATED	CHITTENDEN	$216,109	$336,133
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS	WAITSFIELD	$2,203,320	$333,675
VERMONT SOCIETY OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS	MONTPELIER	$136,063	$332,427
JOURNEY NORTH	NORWICH	$83,743	$332,045
CHILMARK FOUNDATION	BENNINGTON	$506,909	$331,428
JACKSON HOLE PRESERVE INC	WOODSTOCK	$4,740,495	$330,628
OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER	BELLOWS FALLS	$173,770	$328,206
JERI HILL HOUSING CORPORATION	SOUTH BURLINGTON	$1,221,802	$328,025
BRATTLEBORO COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC	BRATTLEBORO	$410,648	$327,760
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF VERMONT INC	WILLISTON	$405,833	$326,916
MACLEAY FOUNDATION	MONTPELIER	$1,389,510	$326,573
ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC	ARLINGTON	$883,833	$326,123
KILLINGTON SKI CLUB INC	KILLINGTON	$1,558,178	$325,655
SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS TEAM OF WASHINGTON COUNTY	BARRE	$412,021	$325,213
VERMONT COMPANION ANIMAL NEUTERING INC	MIDDLESEX	$143,772	$324,779
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INSTITUTE INC	BURLINGTON	$452,377	$324,045
VERMONT FOUNDATION OF RECOVERY INC	BURLINGTON	$159,126	$323,366
GREEN MOUNTAIN SELF-ADVOCATES INC	WHITE RIVER JUNCTION	$245,389	$323,315
NORTHERN FOREST CANOE TRAIL INC	WAITSFIELD	$57,244	$323,308
VERMONT CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVEHERBALISM	MONTPELIER	$18,588	$321,812
INTERNET COALITION INC	MONTPELIER	$68,523	$319,991
SHELBURNE ART CENTER CORPORATION	SHELBURNE	$157,059	$319,811
SAFELINE INC	CHELSEA	$455,664	$318,791
CENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE	BARRE	$916,541	$316,983
FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES	SOUTH BURLINGTON	$1,567,665	$316,028

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.