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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont Caring for Children Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$83k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$432kHuman Services$121kHealth$43kFood & Nutrition$30kCommunity Improvement$25kCrime & Legal$20kEducation$6kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Girls on the Run$45,000
Dad Guild Inc$10,000
Feed Every Need$5,000
Washington County Youth Service BureauBoys & Girl$5,000
Common Roots INC$5,000
Intervale$5,000
Northeastern Family Institute - NFI Vermont$5,000
Feast$1,700
Velocity$1,686
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Greater Burlington YMCA: $31k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $19k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $15k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $10k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $8k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $7k → 10%Association of Africans Living in VT Inc: $5k → 10%Spectrum Youth & Family Services: $5k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $5k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $646 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$610k · 11 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$610k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+41%

Still filing today

45%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GB
    GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +69%
  • PC
    PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +61%
  • DG
    DAD GUILD INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • C
    Centerpoint
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • ST
    STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +220%
  • AO
    Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -33%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
2
Vermont Center for Family Studies

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.

Human Services
3
Vermont Community Garden Network Inc

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…

Environment
4
Gunsensevt

To ensure all vermonters are free from gun violence

Civil Rights
5
Groundworks Collaborative Inc

Groundworks collaborative, inc. provides emergency shelter, housing assistance & a food shelf for homeless persons.

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6
Vermont Coalition of Runaway and Homeless Youth Programs Inc

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…

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7
Vermont Network Against Domestic an Sexual Violence Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
9
Rutland County Pride

Rutland County Pride educates, advocates and celebrates with and for the LGBTQIA2S+ Vermonters and allies.

Civil Rights
10
United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc

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…

Philanthropy
11
Springfield Family Center Inc

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.

—
12
Vermont Farm-to-School Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Outright Vermont; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Girls on the Run: $384,139 · OtherGirls on the RunIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT: $20,000 · OtherWashington County Youth Service BureauBoys & Girl: $20,000 · Other+11 more: $63,386 · Other+11 moreGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $95,874 · Human ServicesGREATER BURLINGTON …STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSTEPS TO END DOMEST…Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesDAD GUILD INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCommon Roots Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD CONNECTS: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFEED EVERY NEED: $5,000 · Food & NutritionOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $11,820 · Public Safety & DisasterUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EducationSHELBURNE FARMS: $5,000 · Environment
Other$517,525Human Services$120,874Community Improvement$15,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Public Safety & Disaster$11,820Education$6,000Environment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $95,874 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDAD GUILD INC: $15,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $11,820 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommon Roots Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAssociation of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD CONNECTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreen Mountain Mobile Therapy: $5,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFEED EVERY NEED: $5,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCOME ALIVE OUTSIDE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The Vermont Community…National Life Group C…Vermont Childrens Tru…United Way of Northwe…George W Mergens Foun…The Windham Foundatio…The Onda Foundation I…The Kelsey TrustDavid Greenewalt Char…Building Bright Futur…Vermont Afterschool I…
Ben & Jerry's Foundation IncVT27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont Caring for Children Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont Caring for Children Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont Caring for Children Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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