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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
CROWN POINT BOARD OF REALTORS INC CHESTER $35,417 $21,898
VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EXECUTIVES MONTPELIER $1,076,859 $21,830
ROBERTA AND RUSSELL HOUSMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ARLINGTON $103,784 $21,781
NORTHEAST REGION OF THE CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATION INS INC BURLINGTON $84,900 $21,725
SMITH-DENISON FOUNDATION EAST CORINTH $664,497 $21,636
STONY WATER 2005 CHARITABLE TR MANCHESTR CENTER $733,292 $21,474
VERMONT SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS INC SOUTH HERO $49,304 $20,904
CJR MEMORIAL FUND LTD ST ALBANS $49,465 $20,880
SOUTH ROYALTON FIRE AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION INC SOUTH ROYALTON $232,213 $20,870
LIONS INTERNATIONAL ENOSBURG FALLS ENOSBURG FALLS $174,334 $20,836
GRAFTON CARES INC GRAFTON $96,498 $20,555
MRC AND COMPANY INC WAITSFIELD $22,856 $20,545
STARBASE VERMONT INCORPORATED SOUTH BURLINGTON $55,707 $20,477
WAR LEGACIES PROJECT INC CHESTER $30,411 $20,306
BRANDON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION BRANDON $245,832 $20,305
FREDERICK M PEYSER JR FOUNDATION MONKTON $382,924 $20,221
BOUTIN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC BURLINGTON $715,219 $20,051
GRAY CAMP INC WOODSTOCK $81,059 $19,546
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL SHELBURNE $11,589 $19,454
LUC GATES FOUNDATION INC ENOSBURG FALLS $158,118 $19,112
CHURCH STREET MARKETPLACE FOUNDATION LTD BURLINGTON $4,441 $19,047
FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF VERMONT JAMAICA $0 $18,966
MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CTR AUX WINDSOR $155,208 $18,904
BEZAMAT FOUNDATION INC STOWE $391,619 $18,849
VERMONT MORGAN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC WESTFORD $60,573 $18,689

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.