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Charlie Burchard Memorial Trust at a glance

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Charlie Burchard Memorial Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kFood & Nutrition$3kHealth$3kRecreation & Sports$2kEnvironment$2kInternational$2kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$9,220
Median grant
1
States reached
$199k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum$9,220
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19k · 3 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +167% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
16

Total granted

$19k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+167%
+25%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • LC
    LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +69%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +167%
  • JR
    Jim Reilly Trust
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +23%
  • BM
    BRIAN MILLER MUSIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -92%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +13%
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
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
2
Vermont Fresh Network Corporation

Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.

Community Improvement
3
Northeast Kingdom Development Corporation

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…

Employment
4
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Vermont Farmers Market Education Center

To support the local food system through access, infrastructure and education

Education
6
Milk With Dignity Standards Council Inc

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…

Community Improvement
7
Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust

To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.

Environment
8
Chittenden Dammers Inc

Advancing snowmobiling in Vermont.

Environment
9
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
10
Burlington Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer Fire/EMS Protection

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

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…

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12
Watersheds United Vermont Inc

Wuvs mission is to empower community-based watershed groups in all parts of the state to protect and restore vermonts waters.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Intervale Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 19 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC: $11,220 · Arts & CultureLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN …BRIAN MILLER MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBRIAN MILLER MUSIC FOUNDATION INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN …MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIER…Jim Reilly Trust: $2,000 · OtherJim Reilly TrustMAKE A WISH: $1,200 · OtherMAKE A WISHIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…Jack Langerman Fund: $1,000 · OtherJack Langerman FundBURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL: $300 · OtherDismas of Vermont Inc: $1,000 · OtherDismas of Vermont IncINTERVALE CENTER INC: $1,000 · OtherINTERVALE CENTER INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,000 · Human ServicesBurlington Amateur Hockey Association Inc: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsPARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsCommon Roots Inc: $1,000 · Food & NutritionThe North End Food Pantry Inc: $1,000 · Food & NutritionLAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$13,720International$7,500Other$7,500Human Services$3,000Recreation & Sports$2,500Food & Nutrition$2,000Environment$2,000

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 budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC: $11,220 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MIDDLEBURY HOCKEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDismas of Vermont Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommon Roots Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% 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…The Robert Fleming & …Lintilhac Foundation …The Waterwheel Founda…The Windham Foundatio…Agnes M Lindsay TrustBen & Jerry's Foundat…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Vermont Community FoundationVT15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Charlie Burchard Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charlie Burchard Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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How do I get to Charlie Burchard Memorial Trust?

Find your warmest path to Charlie Burchard Memorial Trust 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 19 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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