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 It is no longer being updated with new filings.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.

Planet Bluewater Corporation

128 Intervale Rd, Burlington, VT | Tax-exempt since June 2012

EIN
272961843
Last filing
12/2016
Organization type
501(c)(3)
Mission category
Environment
Foundation type
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public
Nonprofit since
June 1, 2012

Last reported financials:

Revenue
$22,928
Assets
$24,645
Source: IRS

2017

Expenses

$17,676

Revenue

$22,928

Assets

$24,645

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 10/26/2018

2016

Expenses

$56,987

Revenue

$64,013

Contributions and grants

$64,013

Assets

$19,393

Liabilities

$0

View 990EZ Submitted 09/21/2017

2013

Expenses

$58,676

Revenue

$62,430

Contributions and grants

$16,608

Assets

$25,792

Liabilities

$12,896

View 990EZ Submitted 10/21/2014

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
Matt Rosensteele Executive Director $0 $0
Valerie Guthrie Director $0 $0
Dana Alexander Kaleta Director $0 $0
Wesley Light Director $0 $0
Wayne Edwards Director $0 $0
Pedro Francote Director $0 $0
Nancy Heliotes Treasurer $0 $0
Will Rapp Chairman Of The Board $0 $0

2016

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Matt Rosensteele Executive Director $20,975 $0
Will Rapp Chairman Of The Board $0 $0
Valerie Guthrie Director $0 $0
Dana Alexander Kaleta Director $0 $0
Wesley Light Director $0 $0
Wayne Edwards Director $0 $0
Pedro Francote Director $0 $0
Nancy Heliotes Treasurer $0 $0

2013

Name Title Base/Bonus Compensation Benefits and Other Compensation
Marianne Balczuk Secretary $1 $0
Nancy Lewis Heliotes President $1 $0
Will Rapp Treasurer $1 $0
Mike Heliotes Director $0 $0
Brenda I Lewis Director $0 $0
George Lewis Director $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.