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Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc at a glance

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Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc

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.

$687k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.0MHealth$630kCivil Rights$381kHuman Services$295kArts & Culture$288kEducation$254kCommunity Improvement$190kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $674k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN EL BARRIO$35,000
INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ECOLOGY$35,000
MIGRANT JUSTICE$30,000
MONTPELIER PARKS AND TREES DEPARTMENT$30,000
JAQUITH PUBLIC LIBRARY$27,000
FAIRBANKS MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM$26,520
UTOPEAN SEED PROJECT$25,000
CENTER FOR CREATIVE AGING NC$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NNE$25,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$25,000
SNACC INC$25,000
RURAL VERMONT$25,000
SOUTH VISION ALLIANCE$25,000
TRANSPLANTING TRADITIONS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR APPALACHIAN GIRLS' EDUCATION$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $488k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Refugee and Immigrant Fund: $20k → 13%GOOD WORK INSTITUTE: $15k → 16%SNACC INC: $25k → 17%Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: $25k → 8%Project Worthmore: $25k → 8%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES: $15k → 9%Capstone Community Action: $20k → 9%Red Wiggler Community Farm: $15k → 8%Refugee and Immigrant Fund: $20k → 13%GREEN CITY FORCE: $25k → 20%ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP: $3k → 9%Capstone Community Action: $15k → 9%Red Wiggler Community Farm: $15k → 8%Refugee and Immigrant Fund: $15k → 13%SNACC INC: $25k → 17%Green City Force Inc: $3k → 20%Red Wiggler Community Farm: $15k → 8%Refugee and Immigrant Fund: $15k → 13%El Centro AMISTAD: $25k → 12%Capstone Community Action: $10k → 9%Red Wiggler Community Farm: $10k → 8%Refugee and Immigrant Fund: $15k → 13%Instepp Inc: $10k → 11%Capstone Community Action: $10k → 9%Refugee and Immigrant Fund: $15k → 13%El Centro AMISTAD: $20k → 12%Capstone Community Action: $10k → 9%Refugee and Immigrant Fund: $5k → 13%WHEELOCK MOUNTAIN FARM: $3k → 12%RESOURCE: $10k → 10%RESOURCE: $10k → 10%Elm Hill Inc: $10k → 9%Elm Hill Inc: $9k → 9%Elm Hill 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 66 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
91

Total granted

$3.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+25%

Still filing today

83%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k 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
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +30%
  • IF
    Institute for Social Ecology
    8× · 2017–2024 · $202k · revenue +65% · 36% of their budget
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • SG
    Simon Green Atkins Comm Dev Corp
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • TF
    TOXIC FREE NORTH CAROLINA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -20%
  • FT
    FARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -18%
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

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

Community Improvement
2
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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3
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
4
Vermont Fresh Network Corporation

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

Community Improvement
5
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

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

Community Improvement
6
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
7
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
8
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
9
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
10
Vermont Farm-to-School Inc

Vermont farm-to-schools mission is to strengthen local food systems in vermont by promoting positive economic relationships, education and access between schools, farms and communities.

Food & Nutrition
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 Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc

We nurture the economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity of people, businesses, organizations and communities in vermont for the benefit and well-being of all who live here.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Back Country Horsemen of the Virginia Highlands. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

137 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. 137 of the 179 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
135/137
Grantees still filing
96/137
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Institute for Social Ecology: $201,500 · EnvironmentInstitute for Social Ecolo…BLUE RIDGE DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $133,060 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE DISCOVERY CENTE…CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $93,700 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL…GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $80,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUNDNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER…350 NEW HAMPSHIRE: $60,000 · Environment350 VERMONT INC: $58,000 · Environment350 COLORADO: $55,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $55,000 · EnvironmentDogwood Alliance Inc: $45,000 · EnvironmentClean Water for North Carolina Inc: $43,500 · Environment+19 more: $275,211 · Environment+19 moreToxic Action Center: $85,000 · OtherMINGLEWOOD FARM AND NATURE PRESERVE: $82,688 · OtherCENTER FOR CREATIVE AGING NC: $79,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS: $62,600 · Other+83 more: $1,432,453 · Other+83 morePlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $250,000 · HealthPlanned Paren…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $180,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $145,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAI…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INCORPORATED: $105,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMM…TIDES CENTER: $75,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COMM…RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesRED WIGGLER F…SNACC INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSNACC INCEl Centro AMISTAD: $45,000 · Human ServicesEl Centro AMI…GREEN CITY FORCE INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT WORTHMORE: $25,000 · Human ServicesELMHILL INC: $24,020 · Human ServicesRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $20,000 · Human Services+7 more: $63,500 · Human Services+7 moreMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $165,000 · Food & NutritionMIGRANT J…SPROUT CITY FARMS: $80,000 · Food & NutritionSPROUT CI…LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP: $25,000 · Food & NutritionLOCAL ENV…Utopian Seed Project Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionUtopian S…QUILTMAKER CAFE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCommon Roots Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionMITCHELL GIVING GARDENS: $15,000 · Food & NutritionCEDAR CIRCLE FARM AND EDUCATION CENTER INC: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition+7 more: $65,000 · Food & Nutrition+7 moreRURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT: $120,000 · EducationVERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $35,000 · EducationFARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC: $34,985 · EducationTAPROOT FARM & ENVIRONMENT EDU CTR: $25,000 · EducationCOMMON GROUND CENTER INC: $20,000 · EducationCENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC: $17,000 · EducationLAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC: $15,000 · EducationVermont Law School: $15,000 · Education+5 more: $36,000 · EducationFAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM: $76,520 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureALLEGHANY JAM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFUTURE RIVER INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHESTNUT CREEK SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINSIGHT PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $8,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$1,164,971Other$1,741,741Health$585,000Human Services$580,520Food & Nutrition$430,000Education$317,985Arts & Culture$214,520

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $250,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetInstitute for Social Ecology: $201,500 over 8y, 36% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $180,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $165,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE RIDGE DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $133,060 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetRURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT: $120,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INCORPORATED: $105,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $93,700 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSPROUT CITY FARMS: $80,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM: $76,520 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC: $65,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS: $62,600 over 3y, 5.1% of budget350 VERMONT INC: $58,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetVITAL COMMUNITIES INC: $57,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetRED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budget350 COLORADO: $55,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetVERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $55,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPeace and Justice Center: $51,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetSNACC INC: $50,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetEl Centro AMISTAD: $45,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetJUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetDogwood Alliance Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALIGHT ALLIANCE TO LEAD IMPACT IN GLOBAL: $45,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetClean Water for North Carolina Inc: $43,500 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetTOXIC FREE NORTH CAROLINA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetGREYSTON FOUNDATION INC: $36,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC: $35,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRoot Social Justice Center Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetVERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN EL BARRIO INC: $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFARM TRAINING COLLECTIVE NYC INC: $34,985 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN CITY FORCE INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $27,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTINY SEED PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA MIGRANT NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPartnership for Appalachian Girls Education: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBlue Ridge Environmental Defense League: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALLEGHANY JAM: $25,000 over 2y, 8.7% 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 Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Social Ecology ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
  • Who funds MIGRANT JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ↗
  • Who funds SPROUT CITY FARMS ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
  • Who funds FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS ↗
  • Who funds 350 NEW HAMPSHIRE ↗
  • Who funds 350 VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds VITAL COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds RED WIGGLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds 350 COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Peace and Justice Center ↗
  • Who funds SNACC INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUL 2 SOUL SISTERS ↗
  • Who funds RIGHTS & DEMOCRACY EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds El Centro AMISTAD ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS INC ↗
  • Who funds Dogwood Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT ALLIANCE TO LEAD IMPACT IN GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds Clean Water for North Carolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds TOXIC FREE NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREYSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC ↗

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…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Lintilhac Foundation …The Windham Foundatio…High Meadows Fund IncNational Life Group C…PatagoniaorgOakland Foundation IncGeorge W Mergens Foun…Agnes M Lindsay TrustNew Hampshire Charita…Vermont Foodbank
The Vermont Community FoundationVT85.3× affinity54 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 · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · High Meadows Fund Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Oakland Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Vermont Foodbank

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 Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Capstone Community Action Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc: 75% of income from government
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Vermont Rural Education Collaborative Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Maquam Bay of Missisquoi Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Root Social Justice Center Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Peace and Justice Center: 41% of income from government
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Dismas of Vermont Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont: 31% of income from government
  • Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Salvation Farms Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Community Resilience Organizations: 25% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Addison County Community Action Gro Inc D/B/a Hope: 18% of income from government
  • Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Willing Hands Enterprises Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Governor's Institutes of Vermont: 15% of income from government
  • Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Cutler Memorial Library: 12% of income from government
  • Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Common Ground Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Composting Association of Vermont Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Vermont Parks Forever Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium: 7% of income from government
  • Vital Communities Inc: 5% of income from government
  • North Branch Nature Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Vermont Energy Education Program Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • South Hero Land Trust Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Common Roots Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Migrant Justice Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
36report 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.

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 179 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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