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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Human Services$1.2MHealth$637kEducation$345kEmployment$253kYouth Development$239kArts & Culture$203kPublic Safety & Disaster$67kCommunity Improvement$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • NM
    Northwestern Medical Center
    2× · 2024–2025 · $234k · revenue +8%
  • JM
    Janet Munt Family Room
    2× · 2024–2025 · $191k · revenue +33%
  • LF
    Lund Family Center Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $77k · revenue +10%

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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montessori School of Central Vt Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 60 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
14/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwestern Medical Center: $234,337 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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 Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
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.

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 60 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 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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