· Private foundation
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont Caring for Children Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF VERMONT CARING FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Girls on the Run | $45,000 |
| Dad Guild Inc | $10,000 |
| Common Roots INC | $5,000 |
| Feed Every Need | $5,000 |
| Intervale | $5,000 |
| Northeastern Family Institute - NFI Vermont | $5,000 |
| Washington County Youth Service BureauBoys & Girl | $5,000 |
| Feast | $1,700 |
| Velocity | $1,686 |
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 (FY17–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +69% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- GBGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +69%
- PCPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +61%
- DGDAD GUILD INC2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +209%
Funded once
- STSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +220%
- CCenterpointone grant, 2020 · $10k
SHELBURNE FARMSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +62%
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
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.
Our mission is to cultivate well-being by helping people of all ages access resources to grow food, build confidence and connect with each other. Our goals are to increase access to gardening resources, develop outreach and education…
To ensure all vermonters are free from gun violence
Groundworks collaborative, inc. provides emergency shelter, housing assistance & a food shelf for homeless persons.
The vermont coalition of runaway and homeless youth programs mission is to ensure that youth have access to the support services they need to be safe and stable. to accomplish this, the coalition works to: ensure continued funding for…
The vermont network aims to uproot the causes of domestic and sexual violence in vermont and create a world free of oppression where actions, beliefs and systems support all people to thrive. we accomplish this through our key programs…
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
Rutland County Pride educates, advocates and celebrates with and for the LGBTQIA2S+ Vermonters and allies.
Our mission is to build a stronger northwest vermont by mobilizing our community to improve people's lives. united way isn't just our name - it's how we work. we bring together individuals, nonprofits, businesses, and government entities…
The springfield family center is a community-based charitable food organization dedicated to providing resources to our food insecure neighbors in the greater springfield area.
Vermont farm-to-schools mission is to strengthen local food systems in vermont by promoting positive economic relationships, education and access between schools, farms and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outright Vermont and the most unlike its peers is Feed Every Need. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT ↗
- Who funds DAD GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT VERMONT ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds Green Mountain Mobile Therapy ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds Common Roots Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED EVERY NEED ↗
- Who funds COME ALIVE OUTSIDE ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT 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: Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · The Onda Foundation Inc · The Kelsey Trust · David Greenewalt Charitable Trust Geoffrey M Mason Trustee · Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council · Vermont Afterschool 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 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont Caring for Children Foundation Inc 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.
- Elevate Youth Services Inc — 88% of income from government
- Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
- Dad Guild Inc — 63% of income from government
- Prevent Child Abuse Vermont — 58% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Come Alive Outside — 27% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Food Connects — 15% of income from government
- Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc — 14% of income from government
- Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Common Roots Inc — 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.
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