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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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
BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BRATTLEBORO $84,381,525 $79,733,786
NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER,INC NEWPORT $83,751,010 $85,949,045
SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC BENNINGTON $83,249,174 $163,128,224
WORLD LEARNING INC BRATTLEBORO $78,958,728 $156,548,651
SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION BENNINGTON $72,137,494 $3,884,699
LANDMARK COLLEGE INC PUTNEY $72,032,268 $32,937,383
ACADEMIC PHYSICIANS INSURANCECOMPANY BURLINGTON $70,480,630 $13,963,904
ST JOHNSBURY ACADEMY ST JOHNSBURY $68,026,299 $33,426,440
WASHINGTON ELECTRIC CO-OPERATIVE INC EAST MONTPELIER $65,491,865 $6,850,494
NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL INC ST JOHNSBURY $63,948,643 $81,110,329
PORTER HOSPITAL INC MIDDLEBURY $63,551,465 $85,013,754
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL EDUCATION BURLINGTON $63,241,771 $2,503,377
MARLBORO COLLEGE MARLBORO $63,153,242 $15,505,693
COLLEGE INSURANCE COMPANY BURLINGTON $62,227,024 $17,678,356
BURR & BURTON ACADEMY MANCHESTER $61,705,204 $39,478,004
VERMONT ETV INC COLCHESTER $60,194,362 $61,248,018
CONCRETE FOUNDATION INC MORRISVILLE $57,074,809 $13,870,901
COPLEY HOSPITAL INC MORRISVILLE $56,568,832 $68,031,325
WINDSOR HOSPITAL CORPORATION WINDSOR $50,695,886 $52,825,850
NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES WESTMINSTER $50,127,700 $5,138,123
THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK INC BURLINGTON $50,000,000 $30,898,000
PUTNEY SCHOOL INC PUTNEY $49,042,466 $16,454,487
SHELBURNE MUSEUM INCORPORATED SHELBURNE $48,570,801 $5,282,069
VERMONT LAND TRUST INC MONTPELIER $46,406,619 $15,023,018
CREDIT UNION OF VERMONT RUTLAND $46,226,070 $1,742,054

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.