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Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc

Cvoeo addresses fundamental issues of economic, social, racial, and environmental justice and collaborates with people to achieve economic independence.

$12M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$131k
Largest
01What you fund
0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$1.6MCrime & Legal$648kCommunity Improvement$322kInternational$54kPhilanthropy$34kOther$1.1M
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $855,737 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,047,888 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,192,151 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $221k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $634k
$47,241
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION$131,410
ST ALBANS POLICE DEPARTMENT$129,961
SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION$104,410
VERMONT LEGAL AID$94,856
BROC - COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT$89,345
NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION$84,367
SUPPORTING & HELPING ASYLEES & REFUGEES (SHARE)$47,241
BRIDGE TO RUTLAND$33,517
COMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT$33,150
NORTHEAST KINGDOM ASYLUM SEEKERS ASSISTANCE NETWORK$32,775
CENTRAL VERMONT REFUGEE ACTION NETWORK$30,058
SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY$24,369
CHITTENDEN ASYLUM SEEKERS ASSISTANCE NETWORK$20,278
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SUPPORTING & HELPING ASYLEES & REFUGEES (SHARE): $47k → 9%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $131k → 9%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY: $38k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION: $104k → 11%NORTHEAST KINGDOM ASYLUM SEEKERS ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $33k → 12%NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION: $90k → 14%SUPPORTING & HELPING ASYLEES & REFUGEES (SHARE): $7k → 9%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $122k → 9%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY: $24k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION: $100k → 11%NORTHEAST KINGDOM ASYLUM SEEKERS ASSISTANCE NETWORK: $20k → 12%NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION: $86k → 14%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $114k → 9%HOWARD CENTER INC: $22k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION: $92k → 11%NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION: $84k → 14%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $49k → 9%SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION: $28k → 11%NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION: $20k → 14%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $39k → 9%SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION: $20k → 11%NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 14%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $33k → 9%SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION: $17k → 11%NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION: $9k → 14%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $30k → 9%SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 11%NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION: $4k → 14%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $17k → 9%HOWARD CENTER INC: $7k → 10%SOUTH EASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY: $4k → 11%NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION: $3k → 14%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $17k → 9%SOUTH EASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY: $4k → 11%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 17 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
0

Total granted

$3.7M
$0

Still filing today

76%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • VL
    VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $648k · revenue +54%
  • CC
    CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $552k · revenue +71%
  • SV
    SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $384k · revenue +75%

Funded once

    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
    Randolph Area Asylum Seekers Support Corporation

    Providing assistance and financial support for persons seeking asylum in Vermont.

    2
    Project Home

    Project Home shall function to bring asylum seekers into homes within local communities as they go through the asylum-seeking process. Project Home shall work with local families to provide housing for asylum seekers. It shall further work…

    Human Services
    3
    Asylum Seeker Network of Support
    4
    Vermont Asylum Assistance Project Inc

    The vermont asylum assistance project (vaap) is a resource center that recruits, trains, mentors, and supports pro bono legal and lay advocates to provide free immigration services to humanitarian status-seekers in vermont.

    Public Benefit
    5
    Roanoke Asylum-Seekers Support Network

    The Roanoke Asylum-Seekers Support Network is being formed to provide community support to those seeking asylum in the United States for various reasons and choose to live in the Roanoke Valley. We intend to provide transportation,…

    Human Services
    6
    Boston Neighborhood Support Inc
    Housing & Shelter
    7
    Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc

    Provide integration services to African refugees and immigrants.

    Human Services
    8
    New England Justice for Our Neighbors
    9
    Climate Economy Action Center of Addison County Inc

    To reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Addison County in a timely and equitable manner, while promoting and supporting a just transition to a healthy and sustainable local economy

    Community Improvement
    10
    Cooperation Vermont

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

    Community Improvement
    11
    Groundworks Collaborative Inc

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

    12
    Neighbor Fund Inc

    The Neighbor Fund supports the immigrant communities of Windham and Tolland counties providing direct financial support to individuals seeking to normalize their immigration status in the United States. It provides money for immigrants to…

    Crime & Legal

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Legal Aid Inc and the most unlike its peers is Supporting and Helping Asylees and. 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

    13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    13/13
    Grantees still filing
    9/13
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $551,520 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INCSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $384,371 · Human ServicesSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INCNortheast Kingdom Community Action Inc — $305,117 · Human ServicesNortheast Kingdom Community Action IncChittenden Asylum Seekers Assistance Network Inc — $72,250 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $62,431 · Human ServicesCENTRAL VERMONT REFUGEE ACTION NETWORK INC — $58,083 · Human ServicesSupporting and Helping Asylees and — $54,508 · Human ServicesNortheast Kingdom Asylum Seekers Assistance Networ — $52,350 · Human Services+1 more — $29,200 · Human ServicesST ALBANS POLICE DEPARTMENT — $520,600 · OtherST ALBANS POLICE DEPARTMENTFRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT — $309,405 · OtherFRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPART…GRAND ISLE SHERIFF — $169,125 · OtherGRAND ISLE SHERIFFBRIDGE TO RUTLAND — $62,211 · OtherBRIDGE TO RUTLANDVERMONT LEGAL AID INC — $648,129 · Crime & LegalVERMONT LEGAL AID I…BROC COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT — $321,668 · Community ImprovementBROC COMM…COMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC — $53,560 · InternationalNORTHWEST UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS — $33,746 · Philanthropy
    Human Services$1,569,830Other$1,061,341Crime & Legal$648,129Community Improvement$321,668International$53,560Philanthropy$33,746

    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 budgetVERMONT LEGAL AID INC — $648,129 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $551,520 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $384,371 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetBROC COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT — $321,668 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetNortheast Kingdom Community Action Inc — $305,117 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetChittenden Asylum Seekers Assistance Network Inc — $72,250 over 2y, 39% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $62,431 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT REFUGEE ACTION NETWORK INC — $58,083 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSupporting and Helping Asylees and — $54,508 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC — $53,560 over 2y, 12% of budgetNortheast Kingdom Asylum Seekers Assistance Networ — $52,350 over 2y, 21% of budgetNORTHWEST UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS — $33,746 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetHowardCenter Inc — $29,200 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

    • Who funds VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
    • Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    • Who funds BROC COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT
    • Who funds Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc
    • Who funds Chittenden Asylum Seekers Assistance Network Inc
    • Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    • Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT REFUGEE ACTION NETWORK INC
    • Who funds Supporting and Helping Asylees and
    • Who funds COMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC
    • Who funds Northeast Kingdom Asylum Seekers Assistance Networ
    • Who funds NORTHWEST UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
    • Who funds HowardCenter 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.

    The Vermont Community FoundationVT25.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

    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 Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity 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.

    2024
    202122232425
    no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 82%
    • Capstone Community Action Inc84% of income from government
    • Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc83% of income from government
    • Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc82% of income from government
    • Vermont Legal Aid Inc72% of income from government
    • HowardCenter Inc8% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    4rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 17 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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