· Public charity
J Warren and Lois McClure Foundation
To support broad charitable purposes, primarily in the state of vermont.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $1,024,793 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,085,927 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,134 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $141k
- $250k+1 grant · $883k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT - MONTPELIER | $883,383 |
| CAREERS CLIC | $38,000 |
| VERMONT RURAL EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE | $35,000 |
| VERMONT STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION | $25,410 |
| GREAT SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP | $20,000 |
| ORANGE SOUTHWEST SUPERVISORY UNION | $13,000 |
| VERMONT HUMANITIES | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $70k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of J Warren and Lois McClure Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CCCareers CLiC6× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +2%
- VAVERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $90k · revenue +231%
- VYVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC3× · 2017–2023 · $86k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- PAPUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue +49%
- WRWINDHAM REGIONAL CAREER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $30k
- BPBURLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Promote quality public education
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…
To promote public policy that enhances the lives of children and youth in vermont.
It is Vabirs mission to help employers meet their staffing needs for a stable skilled Workforce and to advocate public and private policies that encourage and increase access for persons with disabilities in the work environment.
Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.
To provide research and education on issues of importance to the natural, human, and economic environments of vermont citizens.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
To build a deep understanding of energy and climate through education, inspiring and empowering people to take action for increased sustainability in our communities, economy and environment.
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.
To promote and foster employee ownership in Vermont.
The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Afterschool Inc and the most unlike its peers is Synergy Learning International 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 27 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
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 39 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 Careers CLiC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT RURAL EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORP ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Great Schools Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MENTOR Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VBR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY LEARNING INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds REGION VI WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
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 · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Alchemist Foundation Inc · The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Let's Grow Kids Inc · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Francis T & Louis T Nichols 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 J Warren and Lois McClure 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.
- The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
- Vermont Adult Learning Inc — 78% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Mentor Vermont Inc — 58% 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
- Vermont Afterschool Inc — 42% of income from government
- Vermont Principals Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corp — 17% of income from government
- Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 15% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Vermont School Boards Association — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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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