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Metta Earth Institute Inc
334 Geary Rd S, Lincoln, VT | Tax-exempt since February 2012
- EIN
- 270695274
- Last filing
- 06/2017
- 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
- Feb. 1, 2012
- Revenue
- $261,696
- Assets
- $211,956
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$69,720
Fundraising expenses
$690
Salary expenses
$6,842
Revenue
$261,696
Contributions and grants
$210,033
Assets
$211,956
Liabilities
$400
2016
Expenses
$72,756
Revenue
$70,922
Contributions and grants
$13,803
Assets
$19,803
Liabilities
$223
2015
Expenses
$87,776
Salary expenses
$4,178
Revenue
$95,768
Contributions and grants
$25,014
Assets
$21,637
Liabilities
$223
2014
Expenses
$68,043
Salary expenses
$2,173
Revenue
$76,157
Contributions and grants
$8,122
Assets
$13,665
Liabilities
$243
2013
Expenses
$54,864
Salary expenses
$4,059
Revenue
$58,236
Contributions and grants
$10,110
Assets
$6,045
Liabilities
$737
2012
2011
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gillian Comstock | Co-Director | $1,082 | $0 |
| Russell Comstock | Co-Director | $1,082 | $0 |
| Jamie Silverstein | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| Karen Ganey | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Rob Riman | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Aviva Argote | President | $0 | $0 |
| Katie Tomai Term Ended | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Merkel Term Ended | Director | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamie Silverstein | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Katie Tomai | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Surya-Chandra Das | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Merkel | Director | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Davis | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Merkel | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Agi-Hasita Nadai | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Surya-Chandra Das | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Jamie Silverstein | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Katie Tomai | Officer | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agi-Hasita Nadai | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Merkel | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Cameron Davis | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Katie Tomai | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Jamie Silverstein | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Surya-Chandra Das | Officer | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josephine Corcoran | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Merkel | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Agi-Hasita Nadai | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Jim Davidson | Officer | $0 | $0 |
| Cameron Davis | Officer | $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.
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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.