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Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$433k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$11MYouth Development$2.3MHealth$1.1MEducation$1.0MHousing & Shelter$215kRecreation & Sports$150kHuman Services$68kCivil Rights$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COTS$200,000
COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER$50,000
VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$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
VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN$7,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$7,500
SPECTRUM YOUTH CENTER$5,000
RESOURCE$5,000
JOHN GRAHAM HOUSING & SERVICES$5,000
PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–25, $104k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEIGHBORS IN ACTION: $18k → 9%NEIGHBORS IN ACTION: $15k → 9%Howard Center: $3k → 10%NEIGHBORS IN ACTION: $10k → 9%FRIENDS OF FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY: $26k → 10%THE JANET MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $5k → 10%Janet S Munt Family Room: $3k → 10%RESOURCE: $5k → 10%ReSource: $4k → 10%RESOURCE: $4k → 10%RESOURCE: $4k → 10%ReSource: $3k → 10%ReSource: $2k → 10%ReSource: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 18 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
10

Total granted

$2.7M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+11%

Still filing today

72%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +90% · 42% of their budget
  • KS
    KING STREET CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $58k · revenue +43%
  • FI
    Faith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $43k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
  • CC
    CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -3%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.

1
Vermont Center for Family Studies

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.

Human Services
2
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
3
Vermont Family Network Inc

Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.

Human Services
4
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
5
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
6
Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies Inc

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…

Community Improvement
7
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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8
Elevate Youth Services Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Community House Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc

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

—
11
Health Care & Rehabilitation Services of Southeastern Vt Inc

Hcrs' mission is to provide creative, collaborative, and compassionate health care services that are responsive to the needs of our communities.

Health
12
Vermont Psychological Services Former Behavior Therapy & Psychotherapy

Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behavior & psychological problems.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,625,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $2,235,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS C…+1 more: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000,000 · Health+4 more: $27,000 · HealthCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $1,000,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY SAILING CENTER: $150,000 · OtherSPECTRUM YOUTH CENTER: $25,000 · OtherBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION: $24,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VT: $20,000 · OtherThe Flynn Center: $11,000 · OtherVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $25,500 · OtherPARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC: $24,000 · OtherINCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC: $20,000 · Other+6 more: $28,500 · OtherCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterKING STREET CENTER INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesFaith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc: $43,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY: $26,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesJanet Munt Family Room: $8,000 · Human Services+2 more: $6,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$10,625,000Youth Development$2,252,000Health$1,027,000Education$1,000,000Other$328,000Housing & Shelter$215,000Human Services$165,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,625,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $2,235,000 over 7y, 42% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC: $58,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFaith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc: $43,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY: $26,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $25,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC: $24,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $24,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION: $24,000 over 4y, 66% of budgetINCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC: $20,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetEssex Chips Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetVERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA: $15,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGreen Mountain Mobile Therapy: $6,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHowardCenter Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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…National Life Group C…Fanny Allen Corporati…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The Kelsey TrustAntonio B and Rita M …United Way of Northwe…George W Mergens Foun…Francis T & Louis T N…Agnes M Lindsay TrustPrice Chopper's Golub…Oakland Foundation Inc
The Vermont Community FoundationVT38.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Courtney and Victoria Buffum Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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