· Private foundation
Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COTS | $200,000 |
| VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER | $50,000 |
| KING STREET CENTER | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY | $26,000 |
| NEIGHBORS IN ACTION | $18,000 |
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VT | $10,000 |
| ESSEX CHIPS | $9,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $7,500 |
| VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN | $7,500 |
| SPECTRUM YOUTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| JOHN GRAHAM HOUSING & SERVICES | $5,000 |
| PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC | $5,000 |
| RESOURCE | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +90% · 42% of their budget
- KSKING STREET CENTER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $58k · revenue +43%
- VWVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CCCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -3%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +23%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.
Our mission is to strengthen families and communities by improving human relationships. We do this through the training of expert family therapists, advisors, leaders, and family members in Bowen Family Systems Theory.
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…
Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
Vcet's purpose is to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship across vermont. this is accomplished by providing expert mentoring and technical assistance, the operation of coworking/incubation facilities and the operation of early stage…
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.
Elevate's mission is to promote safety, competence, and confidence as youth create their path through adolescence and into adulthood.elevate provides a wide range of innovative and effective programs that empower and enrich the lives of…
Community house, inc. is located in brattleboro, vermont and was organized for the purposes of providing rehabilitative services to the people of windham county and elsewhere. community house currently offers a short-term residential…
The mission is to enable Vermonters who are blind or visually impaired to be more independent, cultivate adaptive skills and improve their quality of life
Hcrs' mission is to provide creative, collaborative, and compassionate health care services that are responsive to the needs of our communities.
Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behavior & psychological problems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Adventure Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Essex Chips Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA ↗
- Who funds The John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc ↗
- Who funds SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Janet Munt Family Room ↗
- Who funds Green Mountain Mobile Therapy ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds HowardCenter Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE ↗
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 · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Fanny Allen Corporation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Kelsey Trust · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Oakland 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 Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family 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.
- Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Essex Chips Inc — 21% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
- Chandler Center for the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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.