Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
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Bright Blue Inc
24 Marvin St, Montpelier, VT | Tax-exempt since June 2011
- EIN
- 272547229
- Last filing
- 12/2016
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Arts, Culture & Humanities
- Foundation type
- Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
- Nonprofit since
- June 1, 2011
- Revenue
- $23,922
- Assets
- $1,526
Last reported financials:
2016
Expenses
$30,911
Salary expenses
$18,308
Revenue
$23,922
Contributions and grants
$20,500
Assets
$1,526
Liabilities
$0
2015
Expenses
$63,451
Salary expenses
$48,098
Revenue
$67,383
Contributions and grants
$59,718
Assets
$5,066
Liabilities
$0
2014
Expenses
$58,717
Salary expenses
$47,369
Revenue
$59,851
Contributions and grants
$59,851
Assets
$1,134
Liabilities
$0
2013
Expenses
$83,313
Salary expenses
$69,021
Revenue
$83,313
Contributions and grants
$83,313
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0
2012
2011
Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Guadagno | President / Board | $15,308 | $0 |
| Brad Johanson | Board / Editor | $3,000 | $0 |
| Amy Seidl | Secretary / Board | $0 | $0 |
| Jon Erickson | Treasurer / Board | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Guadagno | President/Board | $23,949 | $0 |
| Brad Johanson | Board/Editor | $11,526 | $0 |
| Robert Kittila | Board/Photography | $1,643 | $0 |
| Ben Falk | Board | $0 | $0 |
| Amy Seidl | Secretary/Board | $0 | $0 |
| Jon Erickson | Treaurer/Board | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Guadagno | President/Board | $26,244 | $0 |
| Brad Johanson | Board/Editor | $16,625 | $0 |
| Robert Kittila | Board/Photography | $1,000 | $0 |
| Ben Falk | Board | $0 | $0 |
| Amy Seidl | Secretary/Board | $0 | $0 |
| Jon Erickson | Treaurer/Board | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Guadagno | President/Board | $30,459 | $0 |
| Brad Johanson | Board/Editor | $27,162 | $0 |
| Robert Kittila | Board/Photography | $5,750 | $0 |
| Jon Erickson | Treaurer/Board | $850 | $0 |
| Amy Seidl | Secretary/Board | $0 | $0 |
| Ben Falk | Board | $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.