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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
LITTLE RIVERS HEALTH CARE INC BRADFORD $4,520,914 $6,141,345
EASTER SEALS VERMONT INC BERLIN $2,480,581 $6,105,650
FAMILIES FIRST IN SOUTHERN VERMONT INC WHITE RIVER JUNCTION $2,305,862 $6,046,475
UPPER VALLEY HAVEN INC WHITE RIVER JUNCTION $5,815,048 $6,031,605
GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND HUNTINGTON $16,407,075 $6,007,561
BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC EAST BURKE $14,288,000 $5,931,467
VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC JOHNSON $13,909,529 $5,907,598
EASTVIEW AT MIDDLEBURY MIDDLEBURY $27,477,916 $5,894,745
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ESSEX JUNCTION $2,683,642 $5,777,033
VT LIFE & HEALTH INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION MONTPELIER $619,614 $5,634,060
RUTLAND REGIONAL HEALTH SERVICES RUTLAND $23,612,961 $5,564,648
PROJECT HARMONY INC WAITSFIELD $1,649,466 $5,473,462
SPORTS VENUE FOUNDATION WHITE RIVER JUNCTION $7,981,927 $5,453,073
PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC MIDDLEBURY $4,922,309 $5,407,517
VERMONT STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND INC WINOOSKI $12,232,303 $5,401,555
LAMOILLE HOME HEALTH AGENCY INC MORRISVILLE $6,620,235 $5,314,855
SHELBURNE MUSEUM INCORPORATED SHELBURNE $48,570,801 $5,282,069
BROC-COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT RUTLAND $3,660,492 $5,280,855
CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC WHITE RIVER JUNCTION $1,854,306 $5,239,789
HOUSING VERMONT BURLINGTON $11,861,612 $5,230,232
SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC WESTMINSTER $2,320,860 $5,219,896
AWAKENING SANCTUARY INC BURLINGTON $6,407,941 $5,193,102
BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOCIATION INC BRATTLEBORO $3,257,058 $5,175,654
GREENWOOD SCHOOL INC PUTNEY $9,760,581 $5,172,768
VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC WATERBURY $1,610,148 $5,157,597

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.