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George a Dascomb Charitable Exempt Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$103kCommunity Improvement$80kArts & Culture$70kHuman Services$29kReligion$25kYouth Development$15kRecreation & Sports$14kEducation$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WESTMINSTER CARES$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION$1,800
SO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTI$1,000
Individual grant recipient$700
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14k → 11%BELLOWS FALLS JR LEAGUE & AREA SPOR: $8k → 11%BELLOWS FALLS JR LEAGUE & AREA SPOR: $4k → 11%CHRIS MOOREBF UNION HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 11%BELLOWS FALLS JR LEAGUE & AREA SPOR: $2k → 11%SAXTONS RIVER ELEMETARY SCHOOL: $2k → 11%WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5k → 11%WESTMINSTER EAST PARISH: $64k → 11%WESTMINSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 11%WESTMINTER EAST PARISH: $15k → 11%WESTMINSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15k → 11%WESTMINSTER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $15k → 11%SO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTI: $13k → 11%SO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTI: $13k → 11%SO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTI: $13k → 11%SO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTI: $12k → 11%SO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTI: $12k → 11%WESTMINTER EAST PARISH: $11k → 11%SO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTI: $11k → 11%FIRST CONGO CHURCH: $10k → 11%WESTMINSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 11%WESTMINSTER EAST PARISH: $8k → 11%WESTMINSTER RECREATION CLUB: $6k → 11%WESTMINSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6k → 11%WESTMINSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5k → 11%WESTMINSTER EAST PARISH: $5k → 11%WESTMINSTER EAST PARISH: $5k → 11%WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: $5k → 11%WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: $5k → 11%SO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTI: $5k → 11%WESTMINSTER CARES INC: $4k → 11%WESTMINSTER CARES INC: $4k → 11%WESTMINSTER CARES INC: $4k → 11%WESTMINSTER CARES: $4k → 11%WESTMINSTER CARES INC: $4k → 11%WESTMINSTER CARES INC: $4k → 11%WESTMINSTER CARES INC: $4k → 11%WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: $3k → 11%CONN VALLEY PEE WEE FOOTBALL: $3k → 11%WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: $3k → 11%WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: $3k → 11%WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: $3k → 11%PEE WEE FOOTBALL: $2k → 11%WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: $2k → 11%MAYA WARYAS: $2k → 11%FALLS AREA COMMUNITY TELEVISION: $2k → 11%WESTMINSTER RECREATION GROUP: $2k → 11%WESTMINSTER GAZETTE: $2k → 11%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$331k · 12 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$331k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+104%

Still filing today

17%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
AnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2018–2021 · $82k
  • SE
    SO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTI
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k
  • WH
    WESTMINSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $54k

Funded once

  • WC
    WESTMINSTER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • FC
    FIRST CONGO CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • WR
    WESTMINSTER RECREATION CLUB
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $81,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTI: $80,000 · OtherSO EAST VT COMMUNITY ACTIWESTMINSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $54,150 · OtherWESTMINSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCWESTMINSTER CARES INC: $28,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER CARES INCIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWESTMINSTER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherBELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $13,900 · OtherBELLOWS FALLS JR LEAGUE & AREA SPOR: $13,400 · Other+14 more: $36,325 · Other+14 moreWINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsFalls Area Community Television Inc: $1,800 · Arts & Culture
Other$373,275Animals$5,000Arts & Culture$1,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESTMINSTER CARES INC: $28,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetBELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $13,900 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFalls Area Community Television Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds WESTMINSTER CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Falls Area Community Television Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George a Dascomb Charitable Exempt Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George a Dascomb Charitable Exempt Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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