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Birdseye 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN | $22,500 |
| VERMONT FOOD BANK | $22,500 |
| PATHWAYS VERMONT | $13,000 |
| SECOND WIND FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| CLARA MARTIN CENTER | $13,000 |
| LISTEN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| WILLING HANDS | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $7,500 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $5,000 |
| YOUNG WRITERS PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| VERMONT LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT - HISTORIC BARNS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VFVERMONT FOODBANK8× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +50%
- UVUPPER VALLEY HAVEN8× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +107%
- UVUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC7× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- VLVERMONT LAND TRUST - GILBERT'S HILLone grant, 2021 · $15k
- PVPROSPER VALLEY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FMFAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUMone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
Vermont woodlands association's (vwa) mission is to educate and advocate for the practices of productive stewardship, use, and enjoyment of vermont's woodlands. we achieve this mission by delivering educational programs and technical…
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
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…
Listener-supported Vermont Public Radio has been serving the people of Vermont and the surrounding region since 1977. As Vermonts only statewide public radio network, VPR provides an essential and trusted independent voice for news,…
Provide nature-based education and mentoring to youth and adults in southern vermont and western massachusetts.
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…
To publish the vermont almanac, a handbook for rural living.
To protect and enhance the natural resources of vermont in order to promote the well-being of present and future generations of vermonters and visitors; preserve and aid in the preservation of open land along rivers and lakes; protect and…
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodstock Area Mountain Bike Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 29 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 UPPER VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CLARA MARTIN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Writers Project Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds LISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK AREA MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS BARN 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 · The Couch Family Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Flora R and Isidor M Stettenheim Foundation Inc · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · McCollom Family Foundation · Htc Cottee Wurster Family Foundation 96010000
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 Birdseye 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.
- Second Wind Foundation — 85% of income from government
- Pathways Vermont Inc — 65% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Clara Martin Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Upper Valley Waldorf School — 4% of income from government
- Upper Valley Trails Alliance — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% 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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