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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC WILLISTON $71,595 $91,625
NECI SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC MONTPELIER $36,077 $91,591
BELLOWS FALLS LODGE NO 527 LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE BELLOWS FALLS $543,554 $91,555
SPORTSMANS CLUB OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INCORPORATED ST ALBANS BAY $144,296 $91,178
OPEN HEARTH COMMUNITY CENTER WAITSFIELD $54,887 $91,078
LAKE CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NORTH HERO $160,118 $91,059
STOWE YOUTH HOCKEY STOWE $41,464 $91,035
JEWISH COMMUNITIESOF VERMONT INC BURLINGTON $7,686 $90,966
PERIWINKLE FOUNDATION INC GUILFORD $394,063 $90,906
AMERICAS MEDIA INITIATIVE NFP BURLINGTON $12,564 $90,856
BARRED ROCK FUND INC JERICHO $2,844,216 $90,855
ARC RUTLAND AREA INC RUTLAND $124,355 $90,803
MISSIQUOI RIVER BASIN ASSOCIATION INC EAST BERKSHIRE $17,510 $90,757
MAGICIANS WITHOUT BORDERS LINCOLN $39,985 $90,750
POPE MEMORIAL LIBRARY DANVILLE $835,480 $90,350
VERMONT GOLF ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC RUTLAND $587,824 $90,261
VERMONT JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING COMMITTEE SOUTH BURLINGTON $136,175 $90,047
BLACK RIVER VALLEY SENIOR CENTER LUDLOW $326,135 $89,859
WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF WOODSTOCK $150,875 $89,505
RUTLAND AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC RUTLAND $136,029 $89,290
LAMOILLE REGION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CORP MORRISVILLE $11,965 $89,207
THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC BRISTOL $44,280 $88,863
AMES HILL MARLBORO COMMUNITY CENTER INC BRATTLEBORO $208,667 $88,815
GLADES YOUTH HOCKEY WILLISTON $48,570 $88,798
J MESSAGE GROUP CORP SOUTH BURLINGTON $124,611 $88,780

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.