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David Greenewalt Charitable Trust Geoffrey M Mason Trustee

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$95kEducation$93kArts & Culture$82kInternational$67kHealth$53kHousing & Shelter$40kFood & Nutrition$28kPhilanthropy$25kHuman Services$16kOther$248k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Middlebury Studio School$20,000
Addison Housing Works$10,000
Open Door Clinic$10,000
Middlebury Community Music Center$10,000
Stroud Water Research Center Inc$10,000
AnikayAkhra Inc$10,000
Carlos G Otis Health Care Center$7,500
Fairbanks Museum$5,000
Harvard University$5,000
Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc$5,000
Common Roots Inc$5,000
Musicians of Old Post Road Inc$2,500
Epsilon Spires$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.

area typical 8%CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 10%WOMEN SAFE: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
KS
NC

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.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$469k · 28 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
31

Total granted

$469k
$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+1%

Still filing today

86%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • TJ
    The John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +177%
  • CH
    Community Health Services of Addison Cty Inc
    3× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +96%
  • TC
    THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -34%
  • RS
    RUTH STONE HOUSE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • MM
    MOUNTAINTOP MONTESSORIgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +66%

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.

1
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
2
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Marlboro School of Music Inc

To inspire new generations of musical leaders by enabling artists of diverse ages, nationalities and perspectives to form a nuturing closely knit community devoted to the intensive exploration of chamber music.

Arts & Culture
4
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
5
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
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Middlebury College

Through a commitment to immersive learning, we prepare students to lead engaged, consequential, and creative lives, contribute to their communities, and address the world's most challenging problems.

Education
9
Bennington College Corporation

The men and women who brought bennington college into being sought to create a college that would emphasize "the individual student and her developing interests," learning "by activity and living", a community life designed to "break down…

Education
10
Vermont Wilderness School

Provide nature-based education and mentoring to youth and adults in southern vermont and western massachusetts.

Environment
11
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
12
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Educational Development Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVermont Conservation & Land…Community Food AccessSocial Change Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersCommunity Support ServicesSenior Housing & CareAnimal Rescue and AdoptionIndependent Schools and Ear…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr20%35%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr17%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr20%38%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr17%13%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
8%
488/6,055

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
32/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HARVARD UNIVERSITY - SARDIS EXPEDITION — $35,000 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSITY - SARDIS EXPEDITIONBonnyvale Environmental Education Center — $25,000 · OtherBonnyvale Environmental Education CenterFairbanks Museum — $15,000 · OtherGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC — $15,000 · OtherRUTH STONE HOUSE — $20,000 · OtherRUTH STONE HOUSEHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC — $15,000 · Other+28 more — $190,500 · Other+28 moreTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $30,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF…NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $20,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILD…THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN C…VERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT LAND T…SHELBURNE FARMS — $10,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARM…Appalachian Mountain Club — $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentCENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC — $25,000 · EducationCENTRAL VERMON…MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — $23,024 · EducationMIDDLEBURY STU…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $20,000 · EducationPresident and …North Bennet Street School — $10,000 · EducationNorth Bennet S…IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC — $10,000 · EducationIN-SIGHT PHOTO…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $5,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEG…MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMIDDLEBURY C…ANIKAYA AKHRA INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureANIKAYA AKHR…FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF T…CHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBLE OF BOSTON INC — $9,000 · Arts & CultureCHAMELEON AR…HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $8,000 · Arts & CultureHANDEL AND H…Epsilon Spires Inc — $5,500 · Arts & CultureEpsilon Spir…ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR …WINCHENDON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureWINCHENDON M…+2 more — $4,500 · Arts & Culture+2 moreTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $30,000 · InternationalTHE UNION …WELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC — $25,000 · InternationalWELLS MOUN…GREEN ACROSS THE WORLD INC — $12,000 · InternationalGREEN ACRO…Community Health Services of Addison Cty Inc — $30,000 · HealthCarlos G Otis Health Care Center — $23,138 · HealthThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc — $40,400 · Housing & Shelter
Other$315,500Environment$95,000Education$93,024Arts & Culture$82,000International$67,000Health$53,138Housing & Shelter$40,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc — $40,400 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Health Services of Addison Cty Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBonnyvale Environmental Education Center — $25,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetWELLS MOUNTAIN INITIATIVE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCarlos G Otis Health Care Center — $23,138 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — $23,024 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRUTH STONE HOUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetANIKAYA AKHRA INC — $15,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREEN ACROSS THE WORLD INC — $12,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMOUNTAINTOP MONTESSORI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLANDMARK COLLEGE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Rich Earth Institute Inc — $9,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMusicians of the Old Post Road Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEpsilon Spires Inc — $5,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetATRIA COLLECTIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL NEW ENGLAND EQUINE RESCUE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD CONNECTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWINCHENDON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCommon Roots Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Neighbors Inc — $4,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGRASS ROOTS ART & COMMUNITY EFFORT — $3,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budget
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…The Windham Foundatio…Agnes M Lindsay TrustBen & Jerry's Foundat…Thomas Thompson TrustAdelard & Valeda Roy …Vermont Council on th…Price Chopper's Golub…George W Mergens Foun…Harris & Frances Bloc…Boston Foundation IncFrancis T & Louis T N…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT42× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Thomas Thompson Trust · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation

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 David Greenewalt Charitable Trust Geoffrey M Mason Trustee 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Atria Collective Inc — 96% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Ruth Stone House — 26% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Anikaya Akhra Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Food Connects — 15% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Ballet Theatre of Boston Inc D/B/a Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre — 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Landmark College Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Common Roots Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Migrant Justice Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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: 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.

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How do I get to David Greenewalt Charitable Trust Geoffrey M Mason Trustee?

Find your warmest path to David Greenewalt Charitable Trust Geoffrey M Mason Trustee through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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