· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GBICS | $5,000 |
| OAK HILL CHILDREN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| THE BENNINGTON MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| JOHN G MCCULLOUGH FREE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $3,000 |
| BETHESDA PROJECT | $3,000 |
| VERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE | $3,000 |
| PARAN RECREATIONS INC | $3,000 |
| HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| WHYY | $3,000 |
| ISLAND HOUSING TRUST MV | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VYVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC3× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +104%
- 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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
70 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. 70 of the 131 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEO BAECK INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chilmark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chilmark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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