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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FARMER COALITION INCORPORATED MIDDLEBURY $21,481 $80,667
AMERICAN LEGION POWNAL $184,907 $80,589
VERMONT ACCESS NETWORK INC BURLINGTON $162,762 $80,549
BURRILL FOUNDATION INC SHELBURNE $853,674 $80,545
CRAFTSBURY CHAMBER PLAYERS INC BURLINGTON $207,523 $80,468
AMERICAN LEGION CANAAN $84,749 $80,366
THRIFTY ATTIC INC LANDGROVE $4,038 $79,712
VERMONT BALLET THEATER INC ESSEX $169,929 $79,314
CHAMPION FIRE COMPANY OF SOUTH LONDONDERRY VT SOUTH LONDONDERRY $733,237 $79,189
CLARENDON FIRE ASSN INC NORTH CLARENDON $227,566 $79,071
AMERICAN LEGION READSBORO $159,416 $79,005
NORWICH WOMENS CLUB NORWICH $60,041 $78,846
FRANKLIN GRAND ISLE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC ST ALBANS $17,682 $78,611
RUTLAND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS INC RUTLAND $35,625 $78,547
BRATTLEBORO TENNIS CLUB INC BRATTLEBORO $325,372 $78,508
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL CIRCLE INC VERGENNES $10,271 $78,025
WOLCOTT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC WOLCOTT $141,634 $77,933
JILL E HARRINGTON HANZALIK MEMORIAL FUND INC BRATTLEBORO $302,460 $77,654
AIKIDO OF CHAMPLAIN VALLEY INC BURLINGTON $108,924 $77,602
MEETINGHOUSE SCHOOL INC MARLBORO $87,953 $77,416
CENTER FOR AMERICAS FIRST HORSE JOHNSON $160,148 $77,241
SHREWSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC CUTTINGSVILLE $359,487 $77,169
CENTERS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC MIDDLESEX $15,189 $77,119
VERMONT CHIROPRATIC ASSOCIATION ESSEX JUNCTION $28,940 $76,994
VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC WEST MARLBORO $289,225 $76,892

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.