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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
ANA-VERMONT INC ESSEX $17,849 $43,019
ROCKINGHAM ARTS AND MUSEUM PROJECT LTE BELLOWS FALLS $2,641 $42,684
CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC MIDDLETWN SPG $58,628 $42,632
FROG HOLLOW CRAFT ASSOCIATION INC BURLINGTON $111,077 $42,622
BRATTLEBORO RACQUETSPORTS INC BRATTLEBORO $131,721 $42,452
FOOTE OF THE MOUNTAIN SNO-TRAVELERS INC SHELBURNE $206,186 $42,411
COMMONS GROUP LTD WAITSFIELD $3,992 $42,106
CENTRAL VERMONT DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC LUDLOW $99,709 $41,901
CHILDREN OF THE EARTH INC SOUTH BURLINGTON $17,041 $41,795
STEPHEN B COLLINS TRUST BRATTLEBORO $1,402,884 $41,338
ISRAEL CENTER OF VERMONT INC SOUTH BURLINGTON $5,478 $41,148
POORE FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR NORTH COUNTRY CONSERVANCY WESTFORD $133,131 $41,082
NEW MORAN INC BURLINGTON $10,725 $40,815
COLCHESTER ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION INC COLCHESTER $101,955 $40,779
FRIENDS OF THE WARDSBORO LIBRARY INC WARDSBORO $361,759 $40,752
CAMP TESAHE INC LUDLOW $3,445 $40,746
GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC ST JOHNSBURY $724,148 $40,317
WILLIAM DEAN FAUSETT CHARITABLE TRUST MANCHESTR CENTER $511,569 $40,290
BURLINGTON POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION BURLINGTON $89,016 $40,241
MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS INC MIDDLEBURY $118,131 $40,022
WILLIAM DEAN FAUSETT FNDTN FOR PRSV & PRTCTN OF GRN MNTN BOYS HSTRY MANCHESTER $20,209 $40,019
PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE ESSEX $87,187 $39,882
TLC HUMANITARIAN INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC SHAFTSBURY $2,296 $39,614
VERMONT DAIRY PRODUCERS ALLIANCE INC RICHFORD $1,410 $39,500
VERMONT ACTORS REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY RUTLAND $12,446 $39,167

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.