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Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc at a glance

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Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.1MRecreation & Sports$858kHuman Services$853kEducation$716kFood & Nutrition$655kHealth$621kAnimals$343kArts & Culture$320kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $522k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $967k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Burlington Parks Foundation$100,000
Spectrum Youth Family$100,000
Boys Girls Club of Burlington$100,000
Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund$50,000
King Street Center$50,000
Bee the Change$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
Church Street Marketplace Foundatio$25,000
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 (FY18–24, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%Capstone Community Action: $50k → 9%Capstone Community Action: $5k → 9%Vermont Catholic Charities: $15k → 10%Northeast Disabled Athletic Assoc: $20k → 10%Awakening Sanctuary Inc: $5k → 10%Spectrum Youth Family Services: $10k → 10%Janet S Munt Family Room: $10k → 10%Janet S Munt Family Room: $10k → 10%Spectrum Youth Family Services: $5k → 10%Spectrum Youth Family Services: $5k → 10%Janet S Munt Family Room: $5k → 10%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
ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
NJ
CA
VA
MD
SC
DC
GA
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in VT; by stated purpose, 86%.

Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 68 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
57

Total granted

$6.2M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

57%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $462k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +24%
  • SHELBURNE FARMS
    4× · 2018–2023 · $575k · revenue +50%
  • CO
    COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $280k · revenue +190%

Funded once

  • CS
    CATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +62%
  • KW
    KINDER WAY FARM SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2023 · $180k
  • BW
    Business Workforce City of Burlingt
    one grant, 2023 · $105k
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 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
2
Vermont Family Network Inc

Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.

Human Services
3
The University of Vermont Medical Center

To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.

Health
4
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
5
Vermont Center for Family Studies

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.

Human Services
6
Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.

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7
Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center

Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.

Health
8
Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
Vermont Psychological Services Former Behavior Therapy & Psychotherapy

Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behavior & psychological problems.

Health
10
The Vermont Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
11
Hunger Free Vermont Inc

To end the injustice of hunger for everyone and prioritize the people most affected by hunger to make a permanent systemic change.

Crime & Legal
12
The Vermont Children's Alliance

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Catholic Charities Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 139 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/71
Grantees still filing
42/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Burlington Parks Foundation: $554,000 · OtherBurlington Parks FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $512,591 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATION: $250,000 · OtherSpectrum Youth Family: $200,000 · OtherKINDER WAY FARM SANCTUARY: $180,000 · OtherTHE CURTIS FUND INC: $200,000 · Other+100 more: $2,806,921 · Other+100 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $800,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GI…+1 more: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $575,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE F…BEE THE CHANGE INC: $206,038 · EnvironmentBEE THE CHA…+2 more: $11,500 · EnvironmentSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $257,600 · Human ServicesKING STREET CENTER INC: $56,000 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesJanet Munt Family Room: $25,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLund Family Center Inc: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC: $100,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $80,000 · HealthVERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA: $58,700 · HealthSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $35,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $26,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 · HealthC J JUNG CENTER: $25,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · HealthCANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $12,000 · HealthFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $150,005 · Community ImprovementLAKE CHAMPLAIN OPPORTUNITY FUND INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $85,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $280,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,703,512Youth Development$825,000Environment$792,538Human Services$478,600Health$397,200Community Improvement$385,005Housing & Shelter$290,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $800,000 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $575,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $280,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $257,600 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATION: $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBEE THE CHANGE INC: $206,038 over 4y, 28% of budgetTHE CURTIS FUND INC: $200,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetFISCAL SPONSORSHIP ALLIES INC: $150,005 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN OPPORTUNITY FUND INC: $150,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetVermonters for Criminal Justice Reform: $150,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $147,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY: $137,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Story Leadership Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetVERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA: $58,700 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC: $56,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKIDS ON THE BALL INC: $30,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLYRIC THEATRE COMPANY: $28,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $26,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF VERMONT: $25,027 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLET'S GROW KIDS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL: $24,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetLund Family Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM: $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetThe Dorset Equine Rescue Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDismas of Vermont Inc: $13,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHYPERBARIC VERMONT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJournalism Funding Partners: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAHANA MAGIC FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWOOD4GOOD LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% 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 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 LAKE CHAMPLAIN OPPORTUNITY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…National Life Group C…The University of Ver…The Morris & Bessie A…United Way of Northwe…Hoehl Family Foundati…Community Bank Na Fou…Fanny Allen Corporati…George W Mergens Foun…Price Chopper's Golub…Oakland Foundation Inc
The Vermont Community FoundationVT71.3× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely 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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Find your warmest path to Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc 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 139 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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