· Private foundation
Christina Heroy 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 350 VT | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $5,000 |
| VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $5,000 |
| CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND | $2,000 |
| COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $2,000 |
| SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF | $2,000 |
| PBS | $1,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,000 |
| AGE WELL | $1,000 |
| ISLAND INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| VT DIGGER | $1,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB | $500 |
| SPECTRUM | $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 (FY18–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +30%
SHELBURNE FARMS9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +257%- VPVERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC7× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- 3V350 VERMONT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +222%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%- SSOFAone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…
Rooted in vermont since 1977, the vermont land trust unites land and lives for the enduring benefit of people and the place we share. we help people protect, care for, and connect to land. this includes the farms, forests, natural areas,…
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
Vermont interfaith power and light (vtipl) works to help members of vermont's faith and spiritual communities understand that the climate crisis which is threatening the viability of life on earth is a spiritual crisis. vtipl conducts…
See schedule othe mission of the vermont council on world affairs is to promote awareness and understanding of the world and its people, places and cultures through education and engagement. the future of vermont depends upon the world…
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To stop the climate crisis by building grassroots support for a just transition to renewable energy and an end to fossil fuel use and expansion. We envision a society with a renewable energy economy that works for all people, where all…
To cultivate connection, share resources, and amplify the voices of people of color in vermont within the focus areas of land, environ- ment, agriculture, and foodways. liberation ecosystem, inc. is a col- laborative ecosystem for growing…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Alnobaiwi. 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 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 92 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 Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Dismas of Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds Peace and Justice Center ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MIGRANT JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 350 VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSFORD VILLAGE FARM DBA PITTSFORD PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUTHOUT ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Isle Au Haut Boat Services ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AGE WELL 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 · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · High Meadows Fund Inc · L Z Francis Foundation Ima · Seventh Generation Foundation Inc · The Waterwheel Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc
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 Christina Heroy 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.
- Alnobaiwi — 100% of income from government
- Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
- Peace and Justice Center — 41% of income from government
- Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
- United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc — 34% of income from government
- Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc — 33% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Local Motion Inc — 19% of income from government
- Champlain Housing Trust — 15% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Sterling College — 10% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Common Roots Inc — 0% of income from government
- Migrant Justice 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.