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Eastrise Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$400k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Community Improvement$201kFood & Nutrition$131kPublic Safety & Disaster$110kPhilanthropy$46kHuman Services$40kHealth$30kPublic Benefit$25kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $372k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$30,000
WOOD4GOOD LTC$30,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF RUTLAND COUNTY VT$30,000
GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA$30,000
VERMONT FOOD BANK$30,000
GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE$30,000
CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST$25,000
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY$20,000
COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER$20,000
CAPSTONE$15,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$15,000
VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT$15,000
SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION$15,000
VERMONT PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR NETWORK$15,000
FOOD CONNECTIONS$12,066
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $30k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $30k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION: $15k → 11%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $6k → 9%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 45% of Eastrise Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in VT; by stated purpose, 69%.

Eastrise Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$431k · 7 repeat orgs$552k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$431k
$273k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

86%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CV
    CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $130k · revenue +27%
  • VF
    VERMONT FOODBANK
    2× · 2023–2025 · $121k · revenue +6%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +600%

Funded once

  • NK
    NORTHEAST KINGDOM ACTION COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • BC
    BROC COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +9%
  • CC
    CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (FLOOD EMERGENCY RELIEF)
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.

Community Improvement
2
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
3
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc

The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.

Environment
4
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

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…

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5
Vermont Realtors Charitable Foundation Inc
Public Benefit
6
Vermont Community Loan Fund

Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont

Housing & Shelter
7
Vermont Interfaith Action Inc

Vermont interfaith action is a faith-based, grassroots coalition of congregations that transforms ordinary people into empowered and engaged citizens. our goal is to create the hope, power, knowledge, and political will needed to make…

Human Services
8
Hunger Free Vermont Inc

To end the injustice of hunger for everyone and prioritize the people most affected by hunger to make a permanent systemic change.

Crime & Legal
9
Community Harvest of Central Vermont

We bring our community together through gleaning to recover surplus food produced on area farms to feed those with limited access to nutritious, fresh local food, and in the process help the community to gain a greater awareness and…

Food & Nutrition
10
Community Capital of Vermont

To help small businesses and lower income entrepreneurs prosper through the provision of flexible business financing.

Community Improvement
11
Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility Research & Edu Fdn

To provide research and education on issues of importance to the natural, human, and economic environments of vermont citizens.

Education
12
Vermont Fresh Network Corporation

Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
11/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYNORTHEAST KINGDOM ACTION COMMITTEE: $30,000 · OtherNORTHEAST KINGDOM ACTION COMMITTEECAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (FLOOD EMERGENCY RELIEF): $30,000 · OtherCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (FLOOD EMERGENCY …GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC: $30,000 · OtherGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INCGREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $30,000 · OtherGREEN MOUNTAIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITYCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (VERMONT MAIN STREET RELIEF FUND): $30,000 · OtherCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (VERMONT MAIN STR…WOOD4GOOD LTC: $30,000 · OtherWOOD4GOOD LTCUNITED WAY: $16,123 · OtherCAPSTONE: $15,000 · OtherVERMONT PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR NETWORK (VTPOC): $15,000 · OtherCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC (FUEL YOUR NEIGHBORS): $15,000 · Other+17 more: $145,066 · Other+17 moreCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $130,000 · Community ImprovementCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFF…BROC COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT: $30,000 · Community ImprovementBROC COMMUNITY ACTIO…VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $20,000 · Community ImprovementVERMONT COUNCIL ON R…VERMONT FOODBANK: $120,929 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODB…COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMITTEE O…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR…CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCHAMPLAIN H…VERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterVERMONT HOU…SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEASTE…GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesGREATER BU…VERMONT PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR NETWORK: $15,000 · Human ServicesVERMONT PR…CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $6,100 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE C…FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyBARRE COMMUNITY RELIEF FUND INC: $20,000 · Public Benefit
Other$421,189Community Improvement$180,000Food & Nutrition$120,929Housing & Shelter$105,000Human Services$96,100Philanthropy$70,000Public Benefit$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $120,929 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF RUTLAND COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBROC COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBARRE COMMUNITY RELIEF FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetVERMONT PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetREVITALIZING WATERBURY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetVERMONT HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWATERBURY AMBULANCE SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $6,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDismas of Vermont Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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…Vermont Low Income Tr…High Meadows Fund IncPeoples United Commun…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Vermont Community FoundationVT25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Eastrise Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eastrise Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Eastrise Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eastrise Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home