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Chilmark Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GERMANTOWN FRIEND'S SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| 400 FORWARD CORP | $10,000 |
| PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT | $6,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| JOHN G MCCULLOUGH FREE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| THE BENNINGTON MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| OAK HILL CHILDREN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| GBICS | $5,000 |
| HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| BETHESDA PROJECT | $3,000 |
| VERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE | $3,000 |
| WHYY | $3,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $3,000 |
| PARAN RECREATIONS INC | $3,000 |
| ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- VYVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC3× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +129%
- MCMANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INC5× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +1%
- BHBIKE HUB3× · 2022–2024 · $39k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- RJRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOW FDone grant, 2021 · $1.2M
- COCORPORATION OF SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -132%
- VYVT YPOUTH CONSERVATION CORPSone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Education and Research
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fund for North Bennington Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Havens Relief Fund Society. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
70 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. 70 of the 131 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 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BIKE HUB ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTCOAST BLACK THEATRE TROUPE OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF SOUTHERN VERMONT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON WRIGHT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds POWNAL PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds Shires Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
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: South Meadow Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Barr Charitable Trust · Whipstock Hill Preservation Society Inc · Vermont Humanities Council · Cleveland H Dodge Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable 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 Chilmark Foundation 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.
- Shires Housing Inc — 100% of income from government
- Pownal Preschool Inc — 75% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Child Care of the Berkshires Inc — 59% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- Solomon Wright Public Library — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Paran Recreations Inc — 12% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Rescue Mission of Trenton New Jersey — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bike Hub — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Pownal Rescue Squad — 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 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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