· Private foundation
Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $522k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $967k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A3B Acceptance Believing Bonding an | $150,000 |
| Vermonters for Criminal Justice Ref | $150,000 |
| Steps to End Domestic Violence | $117,000 |
| Action Beyond Words | $100,000 |
| Spectrum Youth Family | $100,000 |
| Burlington Parks Foundation | $100,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of Burlington | $100,000 |
| Bee the Change | $50,000 |
| Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund | $50,000 |
| King Street Center | $50,000 |
| Burlington City Arts | $47,500 |
| Humane Society of Chittenden County | $45,000 |
| The City of Newport Parks and Rec D | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,198 |
| New Story Leadership | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in VT; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 14 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $462k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +24%
SHELBURNE FARMS4× · 2018–2023 · $575k · revenue +257%- COCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $280k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CSCATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +13%
- KWKINDER WAY FARM SANCTUARYone grant, 2023 · $180k
- BWBusiness Workforce City of Burlingtone grant, 2023 · $105k
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.
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.
Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.
To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
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.
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
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…
Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behavior & psychological problems.
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.
To end the injustice of hunger for everyone and prioritize the people most affected by hunger to make a permanent systemic change.
To provide support services to local communities and childrens advocacy centers, to serve as a resource and to facilitate a network dedicated to coordinated and comprehensive response to child abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Catholic Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is C J Jung Center. 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 139 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BEE THE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CURTIS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN OPPORTUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds New Story Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION 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 · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The University of Vermont Medical Center · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Hoehl Family Foundation · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Fanny Allen Corporation · George W Mergens Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Oakland 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 Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau 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.
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Vermont Ethics Network Inc — 84% of income from government
- Kidsafe Collaborative Inc — 76% of income from government
- Cathedral Square Corporation — 73% of income from government
- Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
- Memphremagog Watershed Assoc Inc — 59% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc — 34% of income from government
- St Albans Historical Society Inc — 32% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Aha Abenaki Helping Abenaki Inc — 16% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- University of Portland — 1% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Waldorf School — 1% of income from government
- Living Well Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Saint Michael's College — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Orchestra Association Inc — 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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