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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Hope Grows Community Farm Program Inc

951 Vt 15 E, Hyde Park, VT | Tax-exempt since March 2011

EIN
274504658
Last filing
12/2016
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Youth Development
Foundation type
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
Nonprofit since
March 1, 2011

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$190,597
Assets
$131,340
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$196,107

Salary expenses

$125,793

Revenue

$190,597

Contributions and grants

$78,183

Assets

$131,340

Liabilities

$12,383

View 990EZ Submitted 10/15/2018

2016

Expenses

$172,720

Salary expenses

$125,422

Revenue

$91,691

Contributions and grants

$32,256

Assets

$136,559

Liabilities

$12,092

View 990EZ Submitted 10/05/2017

2015

Expenses

$132,678

Salary expenses

$92,954

Revenue

$102,992

Contributions and grants

$74,990

Assets

$217,588

Liabilities

$12,092

View 990EZ Submitted 02/03/2017

2014

Expenses

$155,563

Salary expenses

$102,133

Revenue

$150,982

Contributions and grants

$131,904

Assets

$247,229

Liabilities

$12,047

View 990EZ Submitted 01/20/2016

2013

Expenses

$114,955

Salary expenses

$72,403

Revenue

$162,049

Contributions and grants

$143,159

Assets

$252,106

Liabilities

$12,343

View 990EZ Submitted 12/09/2014

2012

View 990EZ Submitted 11/19/2013

2011

View 990EZ (PDF)

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

2017

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Kenneth Bighton Director $0 $0
Michael Boudreau Secretary $0 $0
David Ford President $0 $0
Carolyn Chauvin Director $0 $0
Raymond Chauvin Director $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
David Ford President $0 $0
Kenneth Bighton Director $0 $0
Raymond Chauvin Director $0 $0
Carolyn Chauvin Director $0 $0
Michael Boudreau Secretary $0 $0

2015

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Raymond Chauvin Director $0 $0
Carolyn Chauvin Director $0 $0
David Ford President $0 $0
Michael Boudreau Secretary $0 $0
Kenneth Bighton Director $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Michael Boudreau Secretary $0 $0
Kenneth Bighton Director $0 $0
David Ford President $0 $0
Carolyn Chauvin Director $0 $0
Raymond Chauvin Director $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Jesse Goldfine Secretary $0 $0
Michael Boudreau Director $0 $0
Raymond Chauvin Director $0 $0
Carolyn Chauvin Director $0 $0
David Ford President $0 $0

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.