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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC MORRISVILLE $57,074,809 $13,870,901
RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC RICHFORD $15,100,568 $13,817,779
VERMONT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION INC MIDDLEBURY $148,474 $12,366,569
GREATER BURLINGTON YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC BURLINGTON $11,738,154 $12,260,985
VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO COLCHESTER $30,044,750 $12,116,470
GIFFORD HEALTH CARE INC RANDOLPH $2,107,072 $12,090,339
MOUNT ANTHONY HOUSING CORPORATION BENNINGTON $6,029,007 $11,587,836
CHILD DIMENSIONS INSURANCE COMPANY BURLINGTON $98,924,701 $11,500,617
ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC MIDDLEBURY $3,631,274 $11,060,398
VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC MONTPELIER $19,222,412 $10,954,138
ALOHA FOUNDATION INC FAIRLEE $45,616,231 $10,865,148
POPULATION MEDIA CENTER INC SOUTH BURLINGTON $17,568,341 $10,568,517
CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC PLYMOUTH $12,703,698 $10,553,169
LUND FAMILY CENTER INC BURLINGTON $12,417,759 $10,473,556
LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES JOHNSON $5,067,966 $10,318,751
VERMONT ASSOCIATES FOR TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT INC ST ALBANS $335,764 $10,088,610
GRASSROOT SOCCER INC NORWICH $7,424,800 $9,915,573
GODDARD COLLEGE CORPORATION PLAINFIELD $7,847,334 $9,897,757
HELEN PORTER NURSING HOME INC MIDDLEBURY $2,931,569 $9,869,470
THREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC STOWE $43,738,070 $9,727,207
NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC PLAINFIELD $8,842,178 $9,691,103
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC WATERBURY $11,432,346 $9,676,897
REGULATORY ASSISTANCE PROJECT MONTPELIER $7,163,116 $9,267,699
FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD BURLINGTON $22,869,207 $9,107,722
FRANKLIN COUNTY HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC STALBANS $2,333,253 $9,100,506

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.