How much did COURTNEY AND VICTORIA BUFFUM FAMILY grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$5.6MYouth Development$2.2MEducation$1.0MHuman Services$39kArts & Culture$22kRecreation & Sports$19kCommunity Improvement$18kHousing & Shelter$10kHealth$6kOther$1.3M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

supportthearts

2020

operatingsupport

2021

supportthe

2022

create endowmentsingle mother'sscholarshipprovideoperatingsupportcancer

2023

housing

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $46k
$10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$250k+2 grants · $1.5M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC$505,000
VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
KING STREET CENTER$20,000
NEIGHBORS IN ACTION$15,000
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VT$10,000
INCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT$6,000
SPECTRUM YOUTH CENTER$5,000
JOHN GRAHAM HOUSING & SERVICES$5,000
ESSEX CHIPS$5,000
VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN$5,000
PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC$5,000
THE JANET MUNT FAMILY ROOM$5,000
RESOURCE$4,000
CAMP TA KUM TA$3,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.0M · 17 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.0M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+73%

Still filing today

59%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

BG
Boys & Girls Club of Burlington Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +68% · 42% of their budget
KS
King Street Center
3× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +71%
PI
Partners in Adventure Inc
6× · 2019–2024 · $19k · revenue +32%

Funded once

CC
Champlain College
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -2%
UM
UVM Medical Center Foundation
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
CS
COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Energy Education Program Inc

To build a deep understanding of energy and climate through education, inspiring and empowering people to take action for increased sustainability in our communities, economy and environment.

Education

Governor's Institutes of Vermont

Giv empowers young people with intensive, hands-on learning experiences in college settings which inspire their academic and creative passions, build confidence and leadership, and expand their sense of possibility.

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Vermont Achievement Center Inc

Through flexible, diverse, and responsive programs, vermont achievement center, inc. (vac) provides a foundation of life skills to prepare individuals to reach their full potential as contributing members of society. all people are capable…

Education

Voices for Vermonts Children

Education and advocacy for children.

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The Field Center

Located in southern Vermont, the Field Center is an educational center for arts practices that serves as a resource for working artists at all stages of their career to focus on their work, develop their teaching and performance practices…

Arts & Culture

Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform

Education of the public about the criminal justice system. Direct services to people struggling with substance use disorder, including case managment and recovery support.

Crime & Legal

Vt Association for the Education of

Improve the professional practice of early childhood professionals and build understanding and support for childhood programs.

Education

Vermont Principals Association Inc

Providing exemplary programs and services that support vermont's students and its school leaders.

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Vermont Center for Independent

To empower vermonters with disabilities, deaf vermonters, and others to tear down the physical, communication, and attitudinal barriers that keep us from realizing our full human potential.

Housing & Shelter

University of Vermont and State

The mission of the uvm foundation is to secure and manage private support for the benefit of the university of vermont.

Education

Burlington Childrens Space

Burlington Childrens Space embraces, enriches, empowers and educates young children and families in all social and economic levels.

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Vermont Etv Inc

We continue to partner with champlain valley head start to promote digital literacy for vermont preschoolers and their parents. our parents + preschool program links research and resources created by the pbs national ready to learn…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Champlain College Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

9/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Philanthropy$5,575,000Youth Development$2,238,000Other$1,286,000Education$1,000,000Human Services$39,000Arts & Culture$22,000Recreation & Sports$19,000

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.

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT27.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Kelsey Trust · Fanny Allen Corporation · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · Richard E and Deborah L · George W Mergens Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · National Life Group Charitable · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau

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 organisation COURTNEY AND VICTORIA BUFFUM FAMILY 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Brain Injury Association.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 030363255 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Brain Injury Association, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 66% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family?

Find your warmest path to Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

COURTNEY AND VICTORIA BUFFUM FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family?

More from the funding graph

COURTNEY AND VICTORIA BUFFUM FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family?

More from the funding graph