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Ada Brandon Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$750
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$17kEducation$7kCivil Rights$6kRecreation & Sports$5kPublic Benefit$4kEnvironment$2kPhilanthropy$2kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
8
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Randolph Area Food Shelf$100
Hopkins Center of the Arts$100
World Central Kitchen Inc$100
ACM Inc$99
Hope Young Center for Music Therapy$90
Flynn Center$75
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Sunflower of Peace Foundation: $100 → 8%Families USA Foundation: $200 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
AL
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FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40k · 45 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
76

Total granted

$40k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+8%

Still filing today

56%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentCivil RightsAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ON
    OPERA NORTH
    7× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +67%
  • MC
    MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +73%
  • TS
    THE SHARON ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • GW
    George Washington University School of Law
    one grant, 2022 · $750
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $617
  • AI
    Alabama Interfaith Refugee Ptr Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +24%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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5
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
46/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Fields of Dreams A Greater Washington: $3,500 · OtherFields of Dreams A Greater WashingtonArgentine Tango Society: $1,314 · OtherArgentine Tango SocietyCentral Vermont Chamber Music Festival: $1,150 · OtherCentral Vermont Chamber Music FestivalGeorge Washington University School of Law: $750 · OtherFLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH: $715 · OtherRANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF: $700 · Other+76 more: $11,310 · Other+76 moreOPERA NORTH: $8,880 · Arts & CultureOPERA NORTHCOMMITTEE OF 100 INC: $2,950 · Arts & CultureCOMMITTEE OF 100 INCCentral Vermont Chamber Music Festival: $950 · Arts & CultureCentral Vermont Chamber Music Fest…VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC: $800 · Arts & CultureCHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $750 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $1,606 · Arts & Culture+13 moreMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $3,150 · EducationMIKVA CHALLENGE GRAN…THE SHARON ACADEMY INC: $2,051 · EducationTHE SHARON ACADEMY I…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYARCHYTAS EDUCATION CORP: $1,250 · EducationARCHYTAS EDUCATION C…LAUREL SCHOOL: $500 · EducationLAUREL SCHOOLCOALITION FOR DC REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS EDUCATION FUND: $500 · EducationCOALITION FOR DC REP…+3 more: $306 · EducationNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,500 · EnvironmentTregaron Conservancy: $900 · EnvironmentROSEDALE CONSERVANCY INC: $750 · Environment+3 more: $250 · EnvironmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $650 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $245 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $205 · InternationalRAZOM INC: $125 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $120 · InternationalUMANA Foundation: $100 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $100 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $75 · International+1 more: $25 · InternationalALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $500 · Civil RightsAlabama Interfaith Refugee Ptr Inc: $500 · Civil RightsFLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION: $300 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $125 · Civil Rights+1 more: $25 · Civil RightsNATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC: $850 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $300 · Public Benefit
Other$19,439Arts & Culture$15,936Education$9,257Environment$3,400International$1,645Civil Rights$1,450Public Benefit$1,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPERA NORTH: $8,880 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $3,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE OF 100 INC: $2,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHARON ACADEMY INC: $2,051 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARCHYTAS EDUCATION CORP: $1,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCentral Vermont Chamber Music Festival: $950 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTregaron Conservancy: $900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC: $800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSEDALE CONSERVANCY INC: $750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH: $715 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF: $700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlabama Interfaith Refugee Ptr Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAUREL SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR DC REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS EDUCATION FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMidwest Academy: $475 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR AMERICAS FUTURE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $245 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDC BAR PRO BONO CENTER: $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCRAG MOUNTAIN MUSIC INC: $225 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST ACADEMY INC: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $205 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Chamber Music Society: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTBLUE CIVICS INC: $127 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF MATHEMATICS: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE RIDE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL CITY CONCERTS: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • 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 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSEDALE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds RANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds Alabama Interfaith Refugee Ptr Inc ↗
  • Who funds RANDOLPH AREA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR DC REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds Midwest Academy ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RIGHTS RESTORATION COALITION ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAS FUTURE INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT20.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ada Brandon Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ada Brandon Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 131 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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