· Private foundation
Ada Brandon Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Opera North | $750 |
| Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation | $250 |
| Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival | $200 |
| Committee of 100 | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125 |
| The Sharon Academy | $101 |
| Flight Experience for Youth | $100 |
| Cleveland Park Historical Society | $100 |
| Tregaron Conservancy | $100 |
| Hopkins Center of the Arts | $100 |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $100 |
| Randolph Area Food Shelf | $100 |
| ACM Inc | $99 |
| Hope Young Center for Music Therapy | $90 |
| Flynn Center | $75 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ONOPERA NORTH7× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +67%
- MCMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +73%
- TSTHE SHARON ACADEMY INC5× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- GWGeorge Washington University School of Lawone grant, 2022 · $750
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $617
- PAPeople's Action Instituteone grant, 2017 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Amateur Radio Safety Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 131 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OPERA NORTH ↗
- Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE OF 100 INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHARON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARCHYTAS EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds Tregaron Conservancy ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds ROSEDALE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR DC REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Alabama Interfaith Refugee Ptr Inc ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Midwest Academy ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Lamson Howell Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund · The Windham Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Growald Climate Fund Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ada Brandon Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Randolph Area Community Development Corporation — 51% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- Chandler Center for the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- The Sharon Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.