Vermont · Private foundation
Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $433k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $383k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $596k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $140k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $3.8M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $47k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $41k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $31k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc | $2,235,000 | 7 | 42% |
| The University of Vermont Medical Center | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Champlain College Incorporated | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Committee on Temporary Shelter Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| King Street Center Inc | $58,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Faith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc | $43,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Friends of the Fletcher Free Library | $26,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vermont Works for Women Inc | $25,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Partners in Adventure Inc | $24,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc | $24,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($223k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
Compare Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation with peer funders
About Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation
- How much does Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation give?
- Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $433,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (68%), Youth Development (15%), Health (7%).
- Who are Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc ($2.2M), The University of Vermont Medical Center ($1.0M), Champlain College Incorporated ($1.0M).
- Does Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc, Fanny Allen Corporation.
- Where is Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation based?
- Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation is based in VT.
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