How much does Christina Heroy Foundation give?

Christina Heroy Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $38,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Christina Heroy Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (15%), Health (13%), Public Benefit (11%).

Who are Christina Heroy Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ($50k), Shelburne Farms ($47k), Vermont Public Interest Research & Education Fund Inc ($29k).

Does Christina Heroy Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Christina Heroy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Christina Heroy Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc.

Where is Christina Heroy Foundation based?

Christina Heroy Foundation is based in VT.

Christina Heroy Foundation

Christina Heroy Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$38k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$76kHealth$66kPublic Benefit$57kEnvironment$56kInternational$38kEducation$25kCrime & Legal$24kArts & Culture$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SHELBURNE FARMS	$5,000
350 VT	$5,000
VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND	$5,000
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND	$2,000
SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF	$2,000
CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND	$2,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION	$2,000
PBS	$1,500
AGE WELL	$1,000
ISLAND INSTITUTE	$1,000
VT DIGGER	$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$1,000
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY	$500
SIERRA CLUB	$500

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$384k · 35 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$384k

$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+16%

Still filing today

69%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther

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

PP
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +30%
SHELBURNE FARMS
9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +50%
VP
VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +21%

Funded once

3V
350 VERMONT INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +55%
VE
VPIRG Educational Fund
one grant, 2018 · $5k
DIRECT RELIEF
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +8%

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.

Vermont Public Co

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.

Arts & Culture

Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment

Vermont Energy Investment Corporation

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…

Environment

Vermont Land Trust Inc

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,…

Environment

Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement

Vermont Interfaith Power and Light

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…

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Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

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…

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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

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

350 New Hampshire

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…

Environment

Liberation Ecosystem Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition

CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/61

Grantees still filing

43/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$192,150Environment$117,900Health$66,000International$37,000Public Benefit$34,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Crime & Legal$24,250

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.

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 FoundationVT46.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Christina Heroy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christina Heroy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home