· Private foundation
Henry O Schaefer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Vermont Foundation of Recovery | $5,000 |
| Grand Isle Rescue | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Feeding Southwest Virginia | $2,000 |
| Grand Isle Fire Department | $1,500 |
| American Fdn for Suicide Prevention | $1,500 |
| Jefferson Center Foundation | $1,000 |
| The Josh Pallotta Fund | $1,000 |
| Lutheran World Relief | $1,000 |
| Toph Foundation | $1,000 |
| Old Spokes Home | $1,000 |
| Champlain Islands Food Shelf | $1,000 |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation | $1,000 |
| World Parrot Trust | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VFVermont Foundation of Recovery Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +714%
- FSFEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA3× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +6%
- WPWORLD PARROT TRUST USA INC4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- FSFarmingdale State College Fundone grant, 2020 · $25k
- BGBoys Girls Clubone grant, 2019 · $10k
- SSStraight Street Ministryone grant, 2017 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
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.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Information is power. the mission of the vermont journalism trust and vtdigger.org, is to give that power to vermonters by making complex public policy issues readily accessible, by holding government accountable and by giving readers…
Rooted in vermont since 1977, the vermont land trust unites land and lives for the enduring benefit of people and the place we share. we help people protect, care for, and connect to land. this includes the farms, forests, natural areas,…
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.
The mission of the association is to inspire "deeper connection, better understanding, and enduring support for our public lands."
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
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.
To distribute food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pi Beta Phi Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Toph 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 77 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 Vermont Foundation of Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds WORLD PARROT TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds The Toph Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds HAITI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Josh Pallotta Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Freedom 4 24 ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON BICYCLE PROJECT CORP ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
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: Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Henry O Schaefer 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.
- Vermont Foundation of Recovery Inc — 81% of income from government
- Vermont Historical Society — 51% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- South Hero Library Foundation Inc — 28% of income from government
- Catamount Trail Association — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Josh Pallotta Fund Inc — 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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