· Public charity
High Meadows Fund Inc
The high meadows fund promotes vibrant communities and a healthy, natural environment while encouraging long-term economic vitality in vermont.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k35 grants · $677k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $453k
- $250k+2 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT LAND TRUST | $6,066,250 |
| VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND | $251,250 |
| INTERVALE CENTER INC | $126,000 |
| FOOD CONNECTS | $95,000 |
| CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY (CAE) | $77,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $52,250 |
| VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL | $52,000 |
| CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES | $51,000 |
| ENERGY ACTION NETWORK | $40,750 |
| VERMONT COVERTS WOODLANDS FOR WILDLIFE | $40,500 |
| CONNECTICUT RIVER CONSERVANCY | $40,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND | $31,000 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC | $30,000 |
| WATERSHEDS UNITED VERMONT | $30,000 |
| RURAL VERMONT INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
VERMONT LAND TRUST INC5× · 2017–2021 · $6.4M · revenue +67% · 36% of their budget- VSVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC5× · 2017–2021 · $475k · revenue +79%
- ICINTERVALE CENTER INC4× · 2018–2021 · $324k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- ELEVERNORTH LOAN FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $145k · revenue +85%
- NFNorthern Forest Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue +364%
- CVCENTRAL VERMONT REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSIONone grant, 2017 · $40k
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
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…
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
To protect and enhance the natural resources of vermont in order to promote the well-being of present and future generations of vermonters and visitors; preserve and aid in the preservation of open land along rivers and lakes; protect and…
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
To provide research and education on issues of importance to the natural, human, and economic environments of vermont citizens.
350 vermont is building a people-powered and people-led climate justice movement in vermont for a just, thriving world. we are guided by the voices, experiences, and solutions of those most impacted by the global climate crisis.
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…
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.
Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
Fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location of business enterprises within the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, and having its principal purpose be industrial and economic development of one or more political…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Forestille 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 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 79 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 LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds EVERNORTH LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSHEDS UNITED VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Northern Forest Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHREMAGOG WATERSHED ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds VITAL COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MAD RIVER ↗
- Who funds MERCK FOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COVERTSWOODLANDS FOR WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM ↗
- Who funds White River Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds COLD HOLLOW TO CANADA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS INC ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
- Who funds COVER HOME REPAIR INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INC ↗
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: The Vermont Community Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Watersheds United Vermont Inc · Henry P Kendall Foundation · George W Mergens 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 High Meadows Fund Inc 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.
- Watersheds United Vermont Inc — 95% of income from government
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- Memphremagog Watershed Assoc Inc — 59% of income from government
- Cold Hollow to Canada Incorporated — 56% of income from government
- Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
- Agritech Institute for Small Farms Inc — 48% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Missisquoi River Basin Assn — 42% of income from government
- Northwoods Stewardship Center — 40% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Vermont Association of Conservation Districts Inc — 35% of income from government
- Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc — 33% 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
- Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Vermont Woodlands Association — 21% of income from government
- The Vermont River Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Vermont Covertswoodlands for Wildlife Inc — 18% of income from government
- Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
- Aha Abenaki Helping Abenaki Inc — 16% of income from government
- Food Connects — 15% of income from government
- Champlain Housing Trust — 15% of income from government
- Chittenden Community Television — 14% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Friends of the Mad River — 12% of income from government
- Composting Association of Vermont Inc — 9% of income from government
- Vermont Farm-to-School Inc — 7% of income from government
- Vermont Grass Farmers Association — 7% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Friends of the Winooski River Inc — 7% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- White River Partnership Inc — 4% of income from government
- Vermont Energy Education Program Inc — 4% of income from government
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- Evernorth Loan Fund Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Housing Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Energy Action Network 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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