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J Warren and Lois McClure Foundation

To support broad charitable purposes, primarily in the state of vermont.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$883k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.3MEmployment$587kYouth Development$227kReligion$130kCrime & Legal$90kPublic Benefit$79kPhilanthropy$60kCommunity Improvement$53kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,024,793, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,085,927 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,134 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $141k
  • $250k+1 grant · $883k
$25,410
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–21, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of J Warren and Lois McClure Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

J Warren and Lois McClure Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 19 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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18

Total granted

$5.4M
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+38%

Still filing today

79%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • CC
    Careers CLiC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +2%
  • VA
    VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $90k · revenue +231%
  • VY
    VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $86k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • PA
    PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $33k · revenue +49%
  • WR
    WINDHAM REGIONAL CAREER CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • BP
    BURLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Vermont Superintendents Association Inc

Promote quality public education

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2
Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

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…

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3
Voices for Vermonts Children

To promote public policy that enhances the lives of children and youth in vermont.

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4
Vermont Association of Business

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.

Employment
5
Alliance for a Better Vermont

Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.

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6
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
7
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
8
Vermont Energy Education Program Inc

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.

Education
9
Vermont Public Co

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Vermont Employee Ownership Center

To promote and foster employee ownership in Vermont.

Education
11
Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc

The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.

Community Improvement
12
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Afterschool Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
26/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT - MONTPELIER: $4,144,394 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT - MONTPELIERVERMONT STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORP: $270,010 · OtherVERMONT STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORP+19 more: $358,600 · Other+19 moreCareers CLiC: $163,000 · EducationCareers C…VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION: $130,000 · EducationVERMONT S…VERMONT RURAL EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC: $85,000 · EducationVERMONT R…Great Schools Partnership Inc: $30,000 · EducationGreat Sch…UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC: $24,000 · Education+4 more: $36,100 · Education+4 moreVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $60,000 · Community ImprovementBRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORP: $35,000 · Community ImprovementREGION VI WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $85,617 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $5,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC: $89,938 · InternationalTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $85,000 · PhilanthropySPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesVERMONT PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR NETWORK: $15,000 · Human Services
Other$4,773,004Education$468,100Community Improvement$102,500Environment$90,617International$89,938Philanthropy$85,000Human Services$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCareers CLiC: $163,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetVERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC: $89,938 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $85,617 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT RURAL EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE INC: $85,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetVERMONT PRINCIPALS ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORP: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC: $32,600 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetGreat Schools Partnership Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC: $24,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT: $24,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetVERMONT BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DREAM PROGRAM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVERMONT PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR NETWORK: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetVERMONT SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVBR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LAB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYNERGY LEARNING INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetREGION VI WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRUTLAND REGION EDUCATION CORP: $7,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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…Alchemist Foundation …The Bay and Paul Foun…The Windham Foundatio…National Life Group C…George W Mergens Foun…United Way of Northwe…Harris & Frances Bloc…Let's Grow Kids IncVermont Afterschool I…Francis T & Louis T N…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT56.4× affinity27 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 · 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

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 J Warren and Lois McClure Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Warren and Lois McClure Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 42%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to J Warren and Lois McClure Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 39 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 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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