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Fore Aces Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$6.8MPhilanthropy$393kRecreation & Sports$336kHealth$260kHuman Services$250kHousing & Shelter$220kEmployment$40kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE$500,000
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC$400,000
CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INC$250,000
SPECTRUM INC$50,000
MATT BROWN FOUNDATION INC$50,000
CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TR$50,000
LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC$25,000
PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE$12,500
PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE$12,500
PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE$10,000
PRESIDENT & TRUSTEES OF COLBY COLLEGE$10,000
RHINO FOODS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
UNBUCKLED FOUNDATION INC$5,000
PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER INC$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VT I$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SPECTRUM INC: $50k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $25k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $25k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $25k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $25k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $25k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $10k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $10k → 10%KING STREET CENTER INC: $5k → 10%KING STREET CENTER INC: $5k → 10%AGE WELL INC: $15k → 10%AGE WELL INC: $10k → 10%AGE WELL INC: $5k → 10%RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $20k → 10%RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $5k → 10%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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.0M · 19 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
7

Total granted

$8.0M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+44%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • The President and Trustees of Colby College
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +37%
  • LC
    LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +83%
  • CH
    CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST
    5× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • JC
    JACKS CORNER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +32%
  • PF
    PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +837% · 44% of their budget
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIPS FOR LITERACY AND LEARNINGgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +83%

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
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
3
Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center

Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.

Health
4
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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5
Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.

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6
Central Vermont Medical Center Inc

Cvmc works collaboratively to meet the needs and improve the health of the residents of central vermont.

Health
7
Wake Robin Corporation

Establish a sustainable dynamic community of seniors that honors both mutual support and independence and addresses the health and wellness of each resident.

Human Services
8
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation

Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…

Environment
9
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
10
Claremont Lincoln University

Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.

Education
11
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
12
Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

See schedule othe mission of the vermont council on world affairs is to promote awareness and understanding of the world and its people, places and cultures through education and engagement. the future of vermont depends upon the world…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center On Rural Innovation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Matt Brown Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%7%<5yr12%21%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr20%10%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr18%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr20%0%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr18%86%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
10%
898/8,861

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

29 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. 29 of the 32 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The President and Trustees of Colby College — $5,550,000 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby CollegeCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $1,250,000 · EducationCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATEDLAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC — $294,665 · EducationTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $60,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyRHINO FOODS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropySPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $195,000 · Human ServicesAGE WELL INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesKING STREET CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMATT BROWN FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC — $20,000 · HealthJACKS CORNER FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST — $220,000 · Housing & ShelterUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLE — $50,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI — $10,000 · OtherPARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON INC — $10,000 · OtherKIDS ON THE BALL INC — $6,000 · OtherTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIPS FOR LITERACY AND LEARNING — $10,000 · OtherNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherSHELBURNE FARMS — $10,000 · OtherPeace and Justice Center — $5,000 · OtherUNBUCKLED FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Other+1 more — $2,500 · OtherLAKE CHAMPLAIN OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN WINDSOR COUNTY INCUBATOR INC DBA BLACK RIVER INNOVATION CAMPUS — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Education$7,094,665Philanthropy$415,000Human Services$260,000Health$235,000Housing & Shelter$220,000Other$123,500Community Improvement$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $5,550,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC — $294,665 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST — $220,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $195,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMATT BROWN FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAGE WELL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN OPPORTUNITY FUND INC — $20,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRHINO FOODS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJACKS CORNER FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetPARTNERSHIPS FOR LITERACY AND LEARNING — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ON THE BALL INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN WINDSOR COUNTY INCUBATOR INC DBA BLACK RIVER INNOVATION CAMPUS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPeace and Justice Center — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAIL BEYOND CANCER USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The Morris & Bessie A…The Waterwheel Founda…National Life Group C…The Onda Foundation I…Antonio B and Rita M …George W Mergens Foun…Mascoma Bank Foundati…The Argosy FoundationTd Charitable Foundat…Christina Heroy Found…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT32.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · The Waterwheel Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Onda Foundation Inc · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Argosy Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Christina Heroy 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 Fore Aces Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Peace and Justice Center — 41% of income from government
  • Center On Rural Innovation Inc — 37% of income from government
  • United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Partnerships for Literacy and Learning — 27% of income from government
  • Champlain Housing Trust — 15% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms — 3% 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
  • The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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