· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| OLD FIRST CHURCH BENNINGTON VT | $9,938 |
| VERMONT FOOD BANK | $9,938 |
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $9,938 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION IN MEDICINE | $9,938 |
| BENNINGTON AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $9,938 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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 +21%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $20k
- MVMOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCone grant, 2021 · $8k
- CHCOPLEY HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 TACONIC MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alcyon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alcyon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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