· Private foundation
James E Robison 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HALEAKELA INC | $30,000 |
| THE CURRENT INC | $12,000 |
| STREB LAB FOR ACTION | $10,000 |
| DANSPACE | $8,500 |
| NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI COLLEGE FOUN | $8,000 |
| THE HOUSE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| ABBOTT HOUSE | $8,000 |
| THIN MAN DANCE | $6,000 |
| RIVER ARTS | $5,000 |
| ELMORE COMMUNITY TRUST | $5,000 |
| MOVEMENT RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| PERFORMA INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ART | $3,000 |
| THE WOOSTER GROUP | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 28 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HIHALEAKALA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +18%
- TCTHE CURRENT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +73%
- AHABBOTT HOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- WAWALKER ART CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +87%
- TPTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +154%
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -3%
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.
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.
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
The mission of Vermont Performing Arts League is to support and sustain a spirit of community among diverse peoples by fostering educational, cultural, social and recreational
MoonBox Productions is dedicated to supporting local arts and local artists, and to connect communities to the nonprofit organizations that serve them.
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
The flynn center for the performing arts fosters the enjoyment, understanding and development of the performing arts in vermont through diverse and engaging artisitic experiences. the flynn fulfills this mission through the…
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
To create theatre that makes our community a better place by producing plays that show us that what we have in common is more powerful than what separates us, providing a supportive professional environment in which theatre artists are…
The weston playhouse theater is vermont's oldest professional theater company and, with its multi-stage summer festival and year-round educational and outreach programs, is dedicated to quality theater and broad community support.
The council's mission is to advance and preserve the arts at the center of vermont communities. it offers grants and services including workshops, professional development opportunities and arts information, and is the state's foremost…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire
The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…
How this is measured
68 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. 68 of the 102 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HALEAKALA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CURRENT INC ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THIN MAN DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOOSTER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Copley Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Other Minds ↗
- Who funds BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds STOWE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds STOWE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Lamoille County Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Tradition Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds TRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Pick Up Performance Co 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.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Tulgey Wood Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Marta Heflin Foundation · Larsen Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James E Robison Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James E Robison Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lamoille Community House Inc: 100% of income from government
- Vermont Folklife Center: 90% of income from government
- Capstone Community Action Inc: 84% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc: 52% of income from government
- Clarina Howard Nichols Center Inc: 51% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc: 34% of income from government
- Catamount Film & Arts Company: 27% of income from government
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis: 17% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation New England: 11% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: 11% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust: 10% of income from government
- Clemmons Family Farm Inc: 9% of income from government
- HowardCenter Inc: 8% of income from government
- New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated: 8% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc: 1% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co: 0% of income from government
- Migrant Justice Inc: 0% of income from government
- Copley Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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