· Private foundation
Charlie Burchard Memorial Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lake Champlain Maritime Museum | $9,220 |
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 (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +167% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LCLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC3× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +69%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +167%- JRJim Reilly Trust2× · 2020–2021 · $2k
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +23%
- BMBRIAN MILLER MUSIC FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -92%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +13%
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.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.
Fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location of business enterprises within the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, and having its principal purpose be industrial and economic development of one or more political…
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
To support the local food system through access, infrastructure and education
Monitors compliance with, and enforces , the milk with dignity code of conduct with dairy farms that participate in the program which enlists dairy farms and milk producers to prevent and remedy human rights violations in dairy supply…
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
Advancing snowmobiling in Vermont.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Volunteer Fire/EMS Protection
The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…
Wuvs mission is to empower community-based watershed groups in all parts of the state to protect and restore vermonts waters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Intervale Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brian Miller Music Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BRIAN MILLER MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Burlington Amateur Hockey Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The North End Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds Dismas of Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds Common Roots Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · The Waterwheel Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Charlie Burchard Memorial Trust 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.
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc — 1% 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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