· Private foundation
Eastrise Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY (CVOEO) | $50,000 |
| CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY (CVOEO) | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $16,123 |
| MONTPELIER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VERMONT PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR NETWORK (VTPOC) | $15,000 |
| NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT (NOFA) | $10,500 |
| REVITALIZING WATERBURY | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF BENNINGTON | $10,000 |
| LAKE CHAMPLAIN SAILING CENTER | $10,000 |
| GIVIO CHARATABLE FOUNDATION - VERMONT FARM BUREAU - DIG DEEP VT | $10,000 |
| VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | $5,000 |
| VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT | $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 (FY22–23, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 45% of Eastrise Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VT; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
Promote business opportunities
To help small businesses and lower income entrepreneurs prosper through the provision of flexible business financing.
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.
Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…
To provide research and education on issues of importance to the natural, human, and economic environments of vermont citizens.
The organization's mission is to support community based service for waterbury, vt area residents through the waterbury area food shelf and the waterbury good neighbor fund.
It is Vabirs mission to help employers meet their staffing needs for a stable skilled Workforce and to advocate public and private policies that encourage and increase access for persons with disabilities in the work environment.
Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Barre Community Relief Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROC COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BARRE COMMUNITY RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REVITALIZING WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
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 · Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc · High Meadows Fund Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Eastrise 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.
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Revitalizing Waterbury Inc — 5% of income from government
- Waterbury Ambulance Service Inc — 3% 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.
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