How to search Vermont business entities online

What the search covers

The database covers all entity types registered with the Secretary of State: domestic and foreign LLCs (including professional LLCs, low-profit LLCs, and blockchain-based LLCs), business corporations, nonprofit corporations, limited partnerships, LLPs, cooperative associations, mutual benefit enterprises, and unincorporated nonprofit associations.

Search options

Vermont's search combines a name/record-number field with several dedicated filters:

• Business Name / Record Number — with Starts With, Contains, or Exact Match matching
• Record Type — filters to a specific entity type (corporation, LLC, limited partnership, cooperative association, and more)
• Record Status — a long, granular list of statuses (Active, Active - In Good Standing, Inactive - Administratively Dissolved, Withdrawn, and dozens more)
• Initial Filing Date — a date-range filter

The Advanced Search panel adds Principal Name, Filing Number, Registered Agent Name, and an Election Type filter (Benefit, Professional, Low-Profit LLC, Blockchain-Based LLC, LLP, and several cooperative-corporation elections).

Annual report due dates by entity type

Vermont uses fiscal-year-relative deadlines for most entities:

• LLCs — annual report due within 3 months after fiscal year end (calendar-year LLCs: January 1 through March 31)
• Corporations — annual report due within 2.5 months after fiscal year end (calendar-year corps: January 1 through March 15)
• LLPs and mutual benefit enterprises — annual report due every year between January 1 and April 1, regardless of fiscal year end
• Nonprofits — biennial report due between January 1 and April 1, starting the first year after initial registration; $35 if any officer, director, or employee was compensated in the prior calendar year, free if none were