· Private foundation
Alchemist 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 |
|---|---|
| MAKERSPHERE | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATI | $3,000 |
| UP FOR LEARNING | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| OUTRIGHT VERMONT | $2,500 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| VT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| DAD GUILD | $2,000 |
| VT PARTNERSHIP FOR FAIRNESS DIVERSI | $2,000 |
| VT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEV | $1,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +72% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
138 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 82 since wound down; 59 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- CFCLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +207%
- KCKINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC3× · 2019–2022 · $35k · revenue +49%
- UTUNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC5× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- TCTHE CURRENT HELEN ARTS CTRone grant, 2021 · $6k
- PAPUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +49%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
Giv empowers young people with intensive, hands-on learning experiences in college settings which inspire their academic and creative passions, build confidence and leadership, and expand their sense of possibility.
Education
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.
VERC provides mini-grants to students and teachers for projects. Hosts events and learning opportunities for teachers and community leaders. Advocates for rural public schools.
To promote public policy that enhances the lives of children and youth in vermont.
Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.
The vermont association for the education of young children (vtaeyc) advances equity and excellence in early childhood education with early childhood educators as our foundation. as a membership organization, we provide resources and…
Vcet's purpose is to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship across vermont. this is accomplished by providing expert mentoring and technical assistance, the operation of coworking/incubation facilities and the operation of early stage…
Our mission is to strengthen families and communities by improving human relationships. We do this through the training of expert family therapists, advisors, leaders, and family members in Bowen Family Systems Theory.
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
Vermont pbs celebrates the innovation and creative spirit of vermont, our neighbors in new england, new york and canada, and civic society beyond, to spark community and democracy in our world. we offer programming and events that connect,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Afterschool Inc and the most unlike its peers is Turnmusic Corp. 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 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 283 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC ↗
- Who funds UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
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 · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · J Warren and Lois McClure Foundation · Oakland Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Harris & Frances Block Foundation 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 Alchemist 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.
- Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc — 75% of income from government
- Lamoille Economic Development Corp — 69% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Dad Guild Inc — 63% of income from government
- Lamoille Restorative Center Inc — 58% of income from government
- Mentor Vermont Inc — 58% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
- Vermont Afterschool Inc — 42% of income from government
- Lamoille Family Center Inc — 36% of income from government
- Vermont Principals Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Education Justice Coalition of Vt — 9% of income from government
- Clemmons Family Farm Inc — 9% of income from government
- All Brains Belong Vt Inc — 8% of income from government
- Vermont Energy Education Program Inc — 4% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Kingdom County Productions Inc — 1% of income from government
- Chill Foundation — 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.
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