· Private foundation
Bergeron Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| HOWARD MENTAL HEALTH | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BISHOP'S FUND | $5,000 |
| SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| COTS | $5,000 |
| END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER | $5,000 |
| YMCA CAMP BELKNAP | $3,500 |
| ST SEBASTIAN'S SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON | $3,000 |
| OPERATION UNDERGROUND RAILROAD | $2,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $2,500 |
| THE CLARA MARTIN CENTER | $2,000 |
| SOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SYSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +55%
- COCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +23%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC7× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- CVCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -8%
- UHUVM HOME HEALTH & HOSPICEone grant, 2023 · $5k
TENACITY INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -5%
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.
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.
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.
Children's services
To promote public policy that enhances the lives of children and youth in vermont.
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…
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 berkshire medical center is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, and personalized environment.
Ywca vermont is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
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 Weston Metco Scholarship Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 64 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 SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds Families in Transition ↗
- Who funds END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds YMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOMESHARE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds CLARA MARTIN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
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: Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Kelsey Trust · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation · The University of Vermont Medical Center · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Onda 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 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.
- Pathway to Possible Inc — 84% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Homeshare Vermont Inc — 32% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% 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
- Clara Martin Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- Saint Michael's College — 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.