· Private foundation
Blittersdorf Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
Largely a single collection: about 94% of reported assets are Gold.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $50,000 |
| ECHO LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN | $30,000 |
| RESOURCE | $10,000 |
| PITTSFORD VILLAGE FARM | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC4× · 2018–2024 · $475k · revenue +12%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $450k · revenue +35%
- VBVERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN4× · 2017–2022 · $65k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
- VDVT DIGGER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $50k
- VTVERMONT TECHNICAL COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $30k
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.
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
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…
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
Environmental education through museum exhibits and school, library, and other public programs.
Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
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.
To ensure all vermonters are free from gun violence
Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
Vermont interfaith power and light (vtipl) works to help members of vermont's faith and spiritual communities understand that the climate crisis which is threatening the viability of life on earth is a spiritual crisis. vtipl conducts…
Rooted in vermont since 1977, the vermont land trust unites land and lives for the enduring benefit of people and the place we share. we help people protect, care for, and connect to land. this includes the farms, forests, natural areas,…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NET ZERO VERMONT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds 350 VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Vermont International Film Foundation ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSFORD VILLAGE FARM DBA PITTSFORD PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Christina Heroy Foundation · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Blittersdorf Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blittersdorf Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc: 33% of income from government
- Net Zero Vermont Incorporated: 33% of income from government
- Sterling College: 10% of income from government
- Vermont Energy Education Program Inc: 4% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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