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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Vermont Wilderness School Inc

Po Box 2585, Brattleboro, VT | Tax-exempt since April 2001

EIN
030365090
Last filing
12/2016
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Environment
Foundation type
Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes.
Nonprofit since
April 1, 2001

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$213,267
Assets
$69,293
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$226,011

Fundraising expenses

$4,706

Salary expenses

$120,647

Revenue

$213,267

Contributions and grants

$30,405

Assets

$69,293

Liabilities

$6,416

View 990 Submitted 02/15/2019

2016

Expenses

$303,270

Fundraising expenses

$3,647

Salary expenses

$132,799

Revenue

$331,591

Contributions and grants

$81,829

Assets

$120,837

Liabilities

$12,605

View 990 Submitted 01/08/2018
View 990 Submitted 03/07/2018

2015

View 990 (PDF)

2014

Expenses

$216,215

Fundraising expenses

$2,603

Salary expenses

$128,930

Revenue

$289,890

Contributions and grants

$82,611

Assets

$111,458

Liabilities

$11,928

View 990 Submitted 08/10/2016

2013

Expenses

$150,697

Salary expenses

$66,043

Revenue

$148,388

Contributions and grants

$42,661

Assets

$26,549

Liabilities

$694

View 990EZ Submitted 08/21/2015

2012

View 990EZ Submitted 04/09/2014

2011

View 990EZ Submitted 03/13/2013

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
Jason Morris Board Member $800 $0
Ingrid Burrows President $375 $0
Gia Neswald Board Member $350 $0
Lauren Layton Secretary $236 $0
Allison Comet Board Member $0 $0
Judith Hyde Treasurer $0 $0
Kalia Lydgate Vice Preside $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Allison Comet Board Member $2,021 $0
Ingrid Burrows President $0 $0
Gia Neswald Board Member $0 $0
Lauren Layton Secretary $0 $0
Kalia Lydgate Vice Preside $0 $0
Judith Hyde Treasurer $0 $0
Jason Morris Board Member $0 $0

2014

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Robert Etzweiler Board Member $9,395 $0
Rebecca Martenson Board Member $0 $0
Kemper Carlsen Board Member $0 $0
Erik Muten Board Member $0 $0
Micah Witri Board Member $0 $0
Bessie Jones Board Member $0 $0
Judy Hyde Treasurer $0 $0
Allie Comet Board Member $0 $0
Ingrid Burrows President $0 $0
Gia Neswald Board Member $0 $0
Lauren Layton Secretary $0 $0
Kalia Lydgate Vice Preside $0 $0
Jason Morris Board Member $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Robert Etzweiler Board Member $6,447 $0
Rebecca Martenson Member $0 $0
Ingrid Burrows Chair $0 $0
Patrick Johnson Board Member $0 $0
Lauren Layton Board Member $0 $0
Kemper Carlsen Secretary $0 $0
Erik Muten Board Member $0 $0
Benjamin Riseman Treasurer $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.