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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.

$748k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.9MEnvironment$1.0MHealth$563kHuman Services$307kFood & Nutrition$272kHousing & Shelter$224kEducation$212kPublic Benefit$188kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

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
$7,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

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.

area typical 11%ANTIDOTE: $51k → 11%ANTIDOTE: $50k → 11%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 9%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 9%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 9%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 9%HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $5k → 13%HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $5k → 13%HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $5k → 13%HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $5k → 13%HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $1k → 13%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
OR
WY
IA
CA
VA
AZ
SC
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 61 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
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Total granted

$4.9M
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+47%

Still filing today

70%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BM
    BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +90%
  • SH
    SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $407k · revenue +60%
  • SV
    SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • MV
    MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • CH
    COPLEY HOUSE
    one 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.

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 Humanities Council

Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.

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2
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
3
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

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…

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4
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
5
Vermont Fresh Network Corporation

Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.

Community Improvement
6
Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility Research & Edu Fdn

To provide research and education on issues of importance to the natural, human, and economic environments of vermont citizens.

Education
7
Vermont Community Loan Fund

Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont

Housing & Shelter
8
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
9
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.

Community Improvement
10
Vermont Wilderness School

Provide nature-based education and mentoring to youth and adults in southern vermont and western massachusetts.

Environment
11
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Vermont Medical Society

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
40/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC: $1,485,341 · Arts & CultureBENNINGTON MUSEUM INCFRIENDS OF HILDENE INC: $140,485 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF HILDENE INCTHE CURRENT INC: $116,238 · Arts & CultureTHE CURRENT INCVERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $99,058 · Arts & CultureVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER: $73,137 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $64,000 · Arts & CultureSMOKEY HOUSE CENTER: $406,501 · OtherSMOKEY HOUSE CENTERTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VERMONT: $122,214 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VERMONTCENTER FOR COMMUNICATION IN MEDICINE: $105,912 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNICATION IN MEDICIN…Bennington Area Habitat for Humanity: $82,922 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $57,898 · OtherTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $90,631 · OtherTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+34 more: $706,938 · Other+34 moreVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $190,313 · EnvironmentVERMONT YOU…VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC: $188,172 · EnvironmentVERMONT PUB…VERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $75,344 · EnvironmentVERMONT LAN…NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $36,438 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OU…+1 more: $7,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $324,957 · HealthNAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $35,119 · Health+2 more: $4,000 · HealthANTIDOTE: $276,846 · Human ServicesHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $36,000 · Human ServicesLAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesVERMONT FOODBANK: $67,033 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC: $36,500 · Food & NutritionLAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionMERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 · Food & NutritionGRATEFUL HEARTS MANCHESTER INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCHATHAM HALL: $78,243 · EducationLONG TRAIL SCHOOL: $44,438 · EducationVERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER: $23,000 · EducationTHE CURTIS FUND INC: $10,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,978,259Other$1,573,016Environment$497,267Health$364,076Human Services$332,846Food & Nutrition$169,033Education$155,681

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBENNINGTON MUSEUM INC: $1,485,341 over 9y, 25% of budgetSMOKEY HOUSE CENTER: $406,501 over 9y, 14% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $324,957 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetANTIDOTE: $276,846 over 7y, 90% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $190,313 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC: $188,172 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF HILDENE INC: $140,485 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CURRENT INC: $116,238 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetVERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $99,058 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $90,631 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBennington Area Habitat for Humanity: $82,922 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetCHATHAM HALL: $78,243 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $75,344 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER: $73,137 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $67,033 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetShires Housing Inc: $49,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetLONG TRAIL SCHOOL: $44,438 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY MONTEREY BAY: $41,619 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetRAINFOREST FLOW: $40,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC: $36,500 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $36,438 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $36,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNAMI SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $35,119 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTACONIC MUSIC INC: $30,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetLAMOILLE COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $30,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $28,200 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetMERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617: $25,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER: $23,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetManchester Riverwalk Association Inc: $16,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRATEFUL HEARTS MANCHESTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTHE CURTIS FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAMOILLE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE 418 PROJECT: $9,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSTOWE LAND TRUST: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSING MATTERS: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetManchester Health Services Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED COUNSELING SERVICE OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT48.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Alcyon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alcyon Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 69 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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