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Alcyon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $264k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $337k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS | $109,938 |
| BENNINGTON MUSEUM | $101,667 |
| SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER | $74,829 |
| ANTIDOTE | $50,833 |
| SOUTHWESTERN VT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| THE CURRENT | $30,584 |
| VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,128 |
| VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,292 |
| VERMONT LAND TRUST | $15,292 |
| RAINFOREST FLOW | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL | $9,938 |
| CHATHAM HALL SCHOOL | $9,938 |
| LONG TRAIL SCHOOL | $9,938 |
| VERMONT FOOD BANK | $9,938 |
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $9,938 |
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 (FY18–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- BMBENNINGTON MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +90%
- SHSMOKEY HOUSE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $407k · revenue +60%
- SVSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
- MVMOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCone grant, 2021 · $8k
- CHCOPLEY HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.
To provide research and education on issues of importance to the natural, human, and economic environments of vermont citizens.
Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
Provide nature-based education and mentoring to youth and adults in southern vermont and western massachusetts.
The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…
The vermont medical society is the leading voice of physicians and physician assistants in the state and is dedicated to advancing the practice of medicine by advocating on behalf of vermonts clinicians and the patients and communities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Antidote. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 69 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 BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTIDOTE ↗
- Who funds VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CURRENT INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bennington Area Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM HALL ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Shires Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds LONG TRAIL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MONTEREY BAY ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST FLOW ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds TACONIC MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 ↗
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 · Truettner Family Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · The Orvis Charitable Foundation · Oakland Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County
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 Alcyon Foundation 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.
- Shires Housing Inc — 100% of income from government
- Lamoille Community House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Vermont Folklife Center — 90% of income from government
- Smokey House Center — 54% of income from government
- Vermont Historical Society — 51% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Lamoille Family Center Inc — 36% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust — 10% of income from government
- Southwestern Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- The Vermont Community 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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