Vermont

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This guide contains public integration notes for Vermont. Use it for identifier formats, search behavior, and country-specific caveats. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, documents, legal forms, roles, and status values is the pricing page.

Vermont coverage, pricing, and sources

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Data Sources
Company Identifiers
Search Capabilities
Quirks & Gotchas
Mappings
Statutory Filings
Data Availability

Data Sources

Vermont uses a single integration against the Vermont Secretary of State Business Services Division, available at bizfilings.vermont.gov. The portal covers every entity type filed in Vermont: domestic and foreign business corporations, nonprofit corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, mutual benefit enterprises, cooperative associations, general partnerships, limited liability partnerships, unincorporated nonprofit associations, plus assumed names, reserved names, and registered names. Filed business activity labels appear as activityDescription when present. A label without a numeric code is preserved as text; it does not become a NAICS code. The public profile does not identify a verified NAICS edition. Every request resolves live against the SoS portal. Vermont publishes no open-data feed for business entities, so there is no non-authoritative fast path.

The Vermont SoS portal is the only source for Vermont entity data. The Trade Register Extract (a printed PDF rendered from the live structured profile) is included in the same call at no extra charge.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
Record Number	Always 6 digits, zero-padded (`074657`, `001020`, `487831`)	`074657`	Primary SoS-assigned identifier. Unique across all filing types. Accepted with or without the leading zeros; every id we return carries the 6-digit form.

The Record Number is the identifier printed on SoS documents and shown on the portal search results page. Pass it as-is (with or without leading zeros) and Topograph will normalise it.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`entityId`	6-digit zero-padded numeric string	`074657`	All entities
`vtIdBusiness`	UUID, 36 characters with hyphens	`79304417-fb3e-4bd0-8dda-1a005071a37a`	All entities

vtIdBusiness is the register’s internal key for the entity. It is returned alongside the Record Number for reference, but it is not the primary identifier and cannot be used to search or to request a company.

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

GLEIF is the supplementary data source for this identifier. company.identifiers.lei is returned when a company identifier has a unique match against this jurisdiction’s registration or validation references in GLEIF. An LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) has 20 uppercase letters and digits, ending in two check digits. Coverage varies by entity. The field is omitted when no unambiguous match is available. Lapsed or retired LEIs may be returned; annulled records are excluded.

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Pattern	Example	Match Type	Expected Results
By Name (contains)	2–200 chars	`"Vermont Creamery"`	Contains (case-insensitive)	Multiple results
By Record Number	1–6 digits	`074657`	Exact	Exact match returned first (`matchType: id`)

Contains search. Name search uses a contains strategy: it matches any entity whose name includes the query string. Up to 50 results are returned. Use more specific strings to narrow the result set.

Active companies only

Search can return companies that are no longer active. Each result carries the register’s status, so activeOnly=true removes the inactive ones.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Record Number vs UUID	The portal assigns two keys to every entity: the customer-facing Record Number (6-digit padded integer, e.g. `074657`) and an internal UUID. Topograph exposes both; use `entityId` for lookups and display, `vtIdBusiness` for reference only.
Shareholders are partnership-only	Vermont requires a partnership to name every partner when it registers, so `shareholders` is returned for general and limited partnerships. It is not available for corporations, whose annual report carries only directors and officers, nor for limited liability companies, which Vermont never requires to disclose their members — for those two the datapoint returns an explanation rather than an empty list, and the people on file come back under `legalRepresentatives` and `otherKeyPersons`.
No ownership percentages, ever	No Vermont filing states an ownership split, and no total partnership capital is published to derive one from, so a shareholding is returned without `sharePercentage`. A single partner whose class the register does not record is not returned on its own, because it cannot be shown to be the whole ownership.
No UBO data	Vermont has no state beneficial-ownership register, and the federal FinCEN database is not public.
No federal tax ID (FEIN)	The federal Employer Identification Number is not disclosed through the Vermont public business register.
Filing images not available	The filing-history timeline (annual reports, articles of amendment, registered-agent changes) is not part of the structured response; it is printed in the Trade Register Extract. The underlying filing PDF images are not exposed by the public portal API, so the Trade Register Extract is the only downloadable document today.
Free-text “Other” officer title	When an officer holds a title that does not match a standard code, the portal stores it in a free-text slot. Topograph preserves the raw value in `role.localName` when no standard mapping applies.
No open-data bulk extract	Vermont publishes no bulk dataset of registered business entities. Every request resolves live against the portal.
Assumed names and reserved names are indexed	The search index includes assumed names (`Assumed Name` entity type), reserved names, and registered names alongside standard entity filings. Search results do not carry the entity type: check `legalForm.localName` on the company profile to tell them apart.
Annual report drives officer freshness	Officer data reflects the most recent annual report filing. Entities that have not filed recently may carry older officer records.

Mappings

Legal Forms

Vermont recognises 18 entity types across the search and profile endpoints. The table below lists each type with its Topograph standardized label.

All 18 Vermont entity types

SoS Entity Type	Standardized
Domestic Business Corporation	Corporation
Foreign Business Corporation	Corporation
Domestic Nonprofit Corporation	Nonprofit Organization
Foreign Nonprofit Corporation	Nonprofit Organization
Domestic Limited Liability Company	Limited Liability Company
Foreign Limited Liability Company	Limited Liability Company
Domestic Limited Partnership	Partnership
Foreign Limited Partnership	Partnership
Domestic Partnership	Partnership
Foreign Partnership	Partnership
Domestic Cooperative Association	Cooperative
Domestic Mutual Benefit Enterprise	Other
Foreign Mutual Benefit Enterprise	Other
Domestic Unincorporated Nonprofit Association	Nonprofit Organization
Foreign Unincorporated Nonprofit Association	Nonprofit Organization
Reserved Name	Other
Registered Name	Other
Assumed Name	Other

Vermont also uses sub-classification election types for certain entities (Benefit Corporation, Professional, Low-Profit LLC, Blockchain-Based LLC, Worker Cooperative, etc.). These are surfaced as annotations where available.

Officer Roles

The SoS portal carries a titleDescription field with a controlled set of values, plus a free-text otherTitle slot for non-standard titles. Topograph normalizes them to a standardized role label.

Common Title	Standardized	Notes
President	President	Statutory corporation officer
Vice President	Vice President
Secretary	Secretary
Treasurer	Treasurer
Director	Director	Corporation board member
Manager	Manager	LLC manager-managed structure
Managing Member	Manager	LLC managing-member variant, returned under `legalRepresentatives`
Member	Other	LLC member, returned under `otherKeyPersons`
General Partner	General Partner	Limited partnerships
Organizer	Other	Initial organizer, returned under `otherKeyPersons`
Incorporator	Other	Returned under `otherKeyPersons`
Other	Other	Free-text slot. The raw value is kept in `role.localName` and returned under `otherKeyPersons`, unless it matches an executive title such as President or Treasurer.

Officers and directors surface under legalRepresentatives. The registered agent and organizers (plus any principal whose title does not map to an executive role) surface under otherKeyPersons.

Entity Statuses

The Vermont register exposes a rich status vocabulary. The broad families are:

Status Family	Examples
Active	Active - In Good Standing, Active - NOT In Good Standing
Inactive	Inactive - Voluntarily Dissolved, Inactive - Administratively Terminated, Inactive - Withdrawn, Inactive - Cancelled, Inactive - Cessated, Inactive - Dissolved, Inactive - Merged, Inactive - Revoked, Inactive - Expired
Pending	Pending (various sub-types)
Cancelled / Revoked	Cancelled, Revoked

The register uses 37 distinct status values. Each is returned verbatim in status.localName, with active: true for every value that starts with Active.

Statutory Filings

Vermont entities file an annual report confirming the entity’s particulars are current. The register publishes the last report’s due date and the date it was received, returned on the cross-country statutoryFilings field as lastFiled.dueDate and lastFiled.filedOn. No forward-looking due date is published.

{
  "statutoryFilings": {
    "annualFiling": {
      "cadence": "annual",
      "lastFiled": { "dueDate": "2025-03-31", "filedOn": "2025-02-11" },
      "source": "us_vt_sos"
    }
  }
}

US states publish no statutory accounts, so the accounts obligation is absent rather than returned empty. An empty object would read as “we looked and found nothing”, which is a different claim. Placeholder cells such as N/A or Inactive, Not Applicable are dropped rather than parsed as dates, so an entity with no obligation simply has no statutoryFilings.

Data Availability

Data Point	Available	Notes
Company name	Yes	Current legal name
Company status	Yes	37-value status vocabulary from the SoS portal (Active - In Good Standing, Inactive - Voluntarily Dissolved, etc.)
Registration date	Yes	Date of incorporation, or the SoS-recorded effective date when no incorporation date is on file
Termination date	No	Not returned in the structured response
Legal address	Yes	One address: the physical address, otherwise the partnership address, otherwise the mailing address
Legal form	Yes	18 SoS entity types, mapped to standardized labels
Legal representatives	Yes	Officers, directors, managers, and members with name, title, and contact address
Registered agent	Yes	Name and one address (physical, otherwise mailing). A commercial registered agent is identified by `role.localName` `Commercial Registered Agent`
Business organizers	Yes	Organizer list from the initial filing
Activity codes (NAICS)	Yes	Numeric NAICS codes where filed by the entity
Filing history	Partial	Printed in the Trade Register Extract only (annual reports, articles of amendment, registered-agent changes, etc.), not in the structured response
Trade Register Extract	Yes	Printed PDF rendered from the live structured Vermont profile, included at no extra charge
Filing images (PDFs)	No	Not exposed by the public portal API; only the filing-history timeline in the Trade Register Extract is available
Shareholders	Partial	Partnerships only (general and limited), without ownership percentages. Not available for corporations or LLCs — see Quirks & Gotchas
UBOs	No	No state beneficial-ownership register; the federal FinCEN database is restricted to authorised users
Tax ID (FEIN)	No	Not disclosed through the Vermont public business register
Financial data	No	Not collected

Example API Responses

Search by Name

curl -X GET "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-VT&query=Vermont+Creamery" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "012345",
    "legalName": "VERMONT CREAMERY HOLDINGS, LLC",
    "countryCode": "US-VT",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "default"
    },
    "address": {
      "region": "VT",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  }
]

Search by Record Number

curl -X GET "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-VT&query=012345" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "012345",
    "legalName": "VERMONT CREAMERY HOLDINGS, LLC",
    "countryCode": "US-VT",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "id"
    }
  }
]

Company Profile

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/company" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countryCode": "US-VT", "id": "012345", "dataPoints": ["company", "legalRepresentatives"]}'

{
  "company": {
    "id": "012345",
    "countryCode": "US-VT",
    "identifiers": {
      "entityId": "012345",
      "vtIdBusiness": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6"
    },
    "legalName": "VERMONT CREAMERY HOLDINGS, LLC",
    "registrationDate": "2010-03-15",
    "status": {
      "localName": "Active - In Good Standing",
      "active": true
    },
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "Domestic Limited Liability Company",
      "standardized": "Limited Liability Company"
    },
    "legalAddress": {
      "city": "Montpelier",
      "region": "VT",
      "postalCode": "05602",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  },
  "legalRepresentatives": [
    {
      "entityId": "person_001",
      "type": "individual",
      "individual": { "name": { "fullName": "Jane A. Smith" } },
      "role": {
        "localName": "Manager",
        "standardized": "Manager"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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Vermont coverage, pricing, and sources

Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

Search Capabilities

Active companies only

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Officer Roles

Entity Statuses

Statutory Filings

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Record Number

Company Profile

​Start here

Vermont coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

​Search Capabilities

​Active companies only

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Legal Forms

​Officer Roles

​Entity Statuses

​Statutory Filings

​Data Availability

​Example API Responses

​Search by Name

​Search by Record Number

​Company Profile

Start here

Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

Search Capabilities

Active companies only

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Officer Roles

Entity Statuses

Statutory Filings

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Record Number

Company Profile