How much did Bergeron Family Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of Bergeron Family Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

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2021

camp

2022

camp

2023

healthhungercamp

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k28 grants · $67k
$10k–50k4 grants · $70k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

ST ANNE'S SHRINE$30,000
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT$15,000
SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE$15,000
HOWARD MENTAL HEALTH$10,000
FEEDING CHITTENDEN$6,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON$5,000
ST MARK CATHOLIC PARISH$5,000
BISHOP'S FUND$5,000
SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
COTS$5,000
OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD$4,000
END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER$4,000
RICE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL$3,000
CHRIST THE KING SCHOOL$2,500
YMCA CAMP BELKNAP$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$933k · 46 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$933k

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+32%

Still filing today

37%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON
6× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +68%
CO
COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER
3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +22%
FI
FAMILIES IN TRANSITION
4× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +23%

Funded once

UH
UVM HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE
one grant, 2023 · $5k
NW
NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL
one grant, 2019 · $2k
TENACITYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

New Hampshire Children's Health

Health

Boys and Girls Club of Watertown

To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive and responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development

Community House Inc

Community house, inc. is located in brattleboro, vermont and was organized for the purposes of providing rehabilitative services to the people of windham county and elsewhere. community house currently offers a short-term residential…

Human Services

Brookline Teen Center

Btc's vision is for all brookline students to engage in their community and emerge ready for college, career, and beyond. our mission is to provide a platform where all teens can explore, create, and discover who they are. through…

Youth Development

Governor's Institutes of Vermont

Giv empowers young people with intensive, hands-on learning experiences in college settings which inspire their academic and creative passions, build confidence and leadership, and expand their sense of possibility.

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The Child Advocacy Center of Northeast

Our purpose is to provide a compassionate, child-centered environment where children and families impacted by abuse receive the support, advocacy, and services they need to heal. our mission is to deliver excellence in child abuse…

Crime & Legal

Newton Child Development Center

To provide high quality day care services to children.

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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

Vermont Achievement Center Inc

Through flexible, diverse, and responsive programs, vermont achievement center, inc. (vac) provides a foundation of life skills to prepare individuals to reach their full potential as contributing members of society. all people are capable…

Education

Watch Them Grow Childcare Center

Watch Them Grow Children's Center operates two childcare centers - a center in Bradford, VT with classrooms for infants, toddlers and preschoolers and a center in Newbury, VT with only a preschool classroom. Our mission is to provide…

Human Services

University of Vermont and State

The mission of the uvm foundation is to secure and manage private support for the benefit of the university of vermont.

Education

Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Vermont and the most unlike its peers is Turning Point Center of Chittenden. 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

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/21

Grantees still filing

18/21

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$616,500Education$243,000Youth Development$31,500Housing & Shelter$30,000Human Services$16,500Recreation & Sports$12,000Food & Nutrition$9,000

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.

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Kelsey Trust · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · The University of Vermont Medical Center · National Life Group Charitable · Td Charitable Foundation · Louise Judith and Edgar May Foundation

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 organisation Bergeron Family 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WESTON METCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 042612225 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WESTON METCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bergeron Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bergeron Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Bergeron Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bergeron Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Bergeron Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bergeron Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph