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Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council

To improve the well-being of children and families in vermont by using evidence to inform policy and bringing voices together to discuss critical challenges and problem-solve.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$194k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL’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.

02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
$40,226
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEED & SEW$194,256
NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$175,719
THE JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM$154,245
MYERS PROUTY CHILDREN'S CAMPUSES$117,780
STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$96,377
LIL SUNSHINE CHILD CARE CENTER$83,370
SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER$80,000
WINSTON PROUTY CENTER$79,062
PERKINSVILLE PRESCHOOL & CHILDCARE$75,194
MOUNT MANSFIELD UNIFIED SCHOOL DIST$67,233
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT$64,341
RUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC$61,109
LITTLE DIPPERS DOODLE CHILDRENS CEN$55,047
LUND FAMILY CENTER INC$54,904
DRIVER HILL KIDDIE CARE$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $657k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CLUBHOUSE KIDS: $25k → 9%LUND FAMILY CENTER INC: $55k → 10%ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC: $9k → 11%RUTLAND COUNTY PCC: $35k → 12%CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC: $45k → 14%JUNEBUG MOTHER AND CHILD INC: $5k → 9%LUND FAMILY CENTER INC: $22k → 10%TURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $48k → 9%GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT: $20k → 9%ASCENSION CHILDCARE INC: $48k → 10%NECK OF THE WOODS INC: $28k → 9%THE JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $154k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $45k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $37k → 10%THE JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $37k → 10%MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER: $42k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$971k · 12 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$971k
$72k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+25%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • JM
    Janet Munt Family Room
    2× · 2024–2025 · $191k · revenue +33%
  • LF
    Lund Family Center Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $77k · revenue +10%
  • LC
    LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $58k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • PP
    POWNAL PRESCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $39k · revenue +25%
  • BB
    BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue +89%
  • VP
    VITAL PARTNERSHIPS
    one grant, 2024 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Robins Nest Children's Center

Robins Nest Childrens Center provides high-quality early care and education in a play-based setting.

Human Services
2
Mountain Tots Preschool

Mountain Tots preschool provides high quality early learning enrichment programs that enhances educational, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development as well as Kindergarten-readiness. We provide preschool and childcare…

Education
3
Nek Community Growth Center

Education of childcare workers

Education
4
Magical Beginnings Early Childhood Center

Our program is designed to enhance the learning and growth of every child. educational purposes emphasizes all areas of development: social, emotional, physical and creativity to help children learn in an exciting manner. individuality is…

Human Services
5
Woodstock Community Playschool Inc Dba Rainbow Playschool

Rainbow Playschool is a nonprofit organization in the foothills of Mt. Tom in Woodstock, Vermont. We provide daycare and preschool services, emphasizing play and outdoor education, to children between the ages of 6 weeks and 5 years old.…

Human Services
6
Little Beginnings Child Development Ctr

Little Beginnings provides pre kindergarten and day care to children under 6 years of age. We believe that learning and playing are synonymous for the preschool age child. Young children learn best when they have an opportunity to practice…

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7
Watch Them Grow Childcare Center

Watch Them Grow Children's Center's mission is to provide the highest quality care at an affordable rate for the families in our community. We strive to offer as many educational opportunities as possible for the early childhood and school…

Human Services
8
Stepping Stones Preschool

The purpose of stepping stones preschool is to promote the social, emotional, and intellectual development of children in the preschool and kindergarten age group. we provide a high-quality, play-based curriculum designed by integrating…

Education
9
Northeast Kingdom Preschool and Childcare Corp

Northeast kingdom preschool and childcare provides safe, affordable, high-quality early childhood education and care for the lyndonville, vt and surrounding communities. families are encouraged to be ambassadors of the program in support…

Education
10
Northpoint Cooperative Preschool

The general philosophy of Northpoint Cooperative Preschool is that we all learn together - adults and children alike. Guided by our qualified, caring, and endlessly imaginative teachers, co-op parents create an environment of learning and…

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11
Hampshire Nursery School Inc

Preschool for children

Education
12
Infant Toddler Children's Center Inc

To be a learning community where children, from infants to school age, come together with experienced and responsive teachers to learn about themselves, each other, and the world.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montessori School of Central Vt Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Venues & Co…Public LibrariesEarly Childhood Care and Ed…Animal Shelters and RescueFamily Philanthropic Founda…Food Assistance and Senior …Winter Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%3%<5yr12%20%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr20%17%20–35yr16%40%35–55yr17%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%5%<5yr12%28%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr20%14%20–35yr16%42%35–55yr17%3%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
9%
369/4,221

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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
14/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEED & SEW — $194,256 · OtherSEED & SEWSTAY & PLAY DAYCARE CENTER — $80,000 · OtherSTAY & PLAY DAYCARE CENTERCRYSTAL THOMPSON POLLARD KID LOGIC LEARNING LLC — $80,000 · OtherCRYSTAL THOMPSON POLLARD KID LOGIC LEARNING L…PERKINSVILLE PRESCHOOL & CHILDCARE — $75,194 · OtherPERKINSVILLE PRESCHOOL & CHILDCAREMOUNT MANSFIELD MODIFIED UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT — $67,233 · OtherMOUNT MANSFIELD MODIFIED UNION SCHOOL DISTRIC…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — $64,341 · OtherABC & LOL CHILD CARE AND PRESCHOOL LLC — $60,228 · OtherLITTLE DIPPERS DOODLE CHILDRENS CEN — $55,047 · OtherDRIVER HILL KIDDIE CARE — $50,000 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $47,237 · OtherTHE FAMILY PLACE INC — $45,344 · OtherCHAMPLAIN CENTER FOR PLAY THERAPY — $42,201 · Other+15 more — $380,340 · Other+15 moreJanet Munt Family Room — $190,838 · Human ServicesJanet Munt Family RoomSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $96,377 · Human ServicesSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENC…Lund Family Center Inc — $76,778 · Human ServicesLund Family Center IncRUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMSINC — $61,109 · Human ServicesRUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMSINCTURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $47,944 · Human ServicesTURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENT…ASCENSION CHILDCARE INC — $47,859 · Human ServicesASCENSION CHILDCARE INCKING STREET CENTER INC — $45,137 · Human ServicesKING STREET CENTER INCCRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC — $44,651 · Human ServicesCRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INCMilton Family Community Center Inc — $42,328 · Human ServicesGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC — $37,322 · Human ServicesRutland County Parent Child Center Inc — $35,163 · Human ServicesNECK OF THE WOODS INC — $28,422 · Human Services+4 more — $60,139 · Human Services+4 moreMYERS PROUTY CHILDREN'S CAMPUSES INC — $117,780 · EducationMYERS PROUTY C…LIL SUNSHINE CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $83,370 · EducationLIL SUNSHINE C…WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT — $79,062 · EducationWINSTON PROUTY…Alburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated — $39,701 · EducationAlburgh Family…POWNAL PRESCHOOL INC — $39,495 · EducationPOWNAL PRESCHO…MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VT INC — $27,042 · EducationMONTESSORI SCH…BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL — $17,811 · EducationNorthwestern Medical Center — $234,337 · HealthNorthwestern…SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $80,000 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN…RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $24,268 · HealthRUTLAND MENT…MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER INC — $71,062 · Arts & CultureLEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC — $58,444 · Arts & CultureWONDERFEET KIDS MUSEUM INC — $41,653 · Arts & CultureCabot Community Association Inc — $32,133 · Arts & CultureONE ARTS INC — $22,228 · Arts & CultureChittenden Community Television — $18,635 · Arts & CultureDAD GUILD INC — $34,751 · Community Improvement
Other$1,241,421Human Services$814,067Education$404,261Health$338,605Arts & Culture$244,155Community Improvement$34,751

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNorthwestern Medical Center — $234,337 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room — $190,838 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $96,377 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLIL SUNSHINE CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $83,370 over 1y, 17% of budgetWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT — $79,062 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLund Family Center Inc — $76,778 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER INC — $71,062 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetRUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMSINC — $61,109 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC — $58,444 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $47,944 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $47,237 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE INC — $45,344 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC — $45,137 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC — $44,651 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetMilton Family Community Center Inc — $42,328 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAlburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated — $39,701 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPOWNAL PRESCHOOL INC — $39,495 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC — $37,322 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRutland County Parent Child Center Inc — $35,163 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDAD GUILD INC — $34,751 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCabot Community Association Inc — $32,133 over 2y, 12% of budgetNECK OF THE WOODS INC — $28,422 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VT INC — $27,042 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMORRISTOWN AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM — $25,473 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $24,268 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE ARTS INC — $22,228 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSTARKSBORO COOP PRESCHOOL INC — $20,951 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT — $19,997 over 1y, 14% of budgetChittenden Community Television — $18,635 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL — $17,811 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCREATIVE PRESCHOOL INC — $15,095 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC — $9,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Vermont Community…Let's Grow Kids IncVermont Childrens Tru…First Children's Fina…George W Mergens Foun…Vermont Afterschool I…Seventh Generation Fo…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…First Children's Fina…National Life Group C…Vt Association for th…Ad Henderson Foundati…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT50.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Let's Grow Kids Inc · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · First Children's Finance Group · George W Mergens Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Seventh Generation Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · First Children's Finance · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Vt Association for the Education of Young Children · Ad Henderson 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 Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 40%
  • Rutland Community Programsinc — 94% of income from government
  • Arlington Area Childcare Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Myers Prouty Children's Campuses Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Pownal Preschool Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
  • Milton Family Community Center Inc — 65% of income from government
  • Dad Guild Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Prevent Child Abuse Vermont — 58% of income from government
  • Burlington Childrens Space — 53% of income from government
  • Rutland County Parent Child Center Inc — 50% of income from government
  • One Arts Inc — 48% of income from government
  • Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Creative Preschool Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Craftsbury Saplings Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Northshire Day School — 39% of income from government
  • The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Montessori School of Central Vt Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Starksboro Coop Preschool Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Neck of the Woods Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Turtle Island Children's Center Inc — 25% of income from government
  • Ascension Childcare Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Chittenden Community Television — 14% of income from government
  • Rutland Mental Health Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Washington County Mental Health Services Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Southwestern Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
  • Northwestern Medical Center — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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