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L Z Francis Foundation Ima

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$610k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$1.4MFood & Nutrition$880kArts & Culture$515kEducation$427kHuman Services$247kRecreation & Sports$227kYouth Development$217kInternational$160kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $334k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $232k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERMONT LAND TRUST$119,000
SHELBURNE FARMS$63,000
INTERVALE CENTER$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY VERMONT CHAPTER$44,000
OUTRIGHT VERMONT$30,000
VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND$25,000
SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC$25,000
ZENO MOUNTAIN FARM$25,000
NEW LEARNING JOURNEY$25,000
FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM$25,000
OXFAM AMERICA$20,000
FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY$15,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $50k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $25k → 10%OLD SPOKES HOME: $25k → 10%OLD SPOKES HOME: $25k → 10%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $25k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $14k → 10%OLD SPOKES HOME: $10k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 54 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
20

Total granted

$4.4M
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+18%

Still filing today

61%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEmploymentOther

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 INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $680k · revenue +67%
  • IC
    INTERVALE CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $340k · revenue +33%
  • SHELBURNE FARMS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $261k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • NM
    New Moran Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $37k · 91% of their budget
  • NS
    North Star Community Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +83%
  • FM
    FAIRBANKS MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
2
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
3
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
4
Vermont Riverlands Llc

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…

Environment
5
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.

Community Improvement
6
Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.

7
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
8
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

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…

9
Vermont Woodlands Association

Vermont woodlands association's (vwa) mission is to educate and advocate for the practices of productive stewardship, use, and enjoyment of vermont's woodlands. we achieve this mission by delivering educational programs and technical…

Environment
10
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…

Environment
11
Vermont Trails & Greenways Council

To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.

Environment
12
Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Groundworks Collaborative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%2%5–10yr21%22%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr13%46%35–55yr15%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr13%56%35–55yr15%13%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
10%
808/7,829

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.

04the grantee network

51 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
40/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $680,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT LAND TRUST INCSHELBURNE FARMS — $261,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMSTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $115,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDSOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC — $90,000 · EnvironmentSOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INCLAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC — $60,000 · Environment350ORG — $56,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC — $55,000 · Environment+7 more — $170,000 · Environment+7 moreIndividual grant recipient — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $168,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient — $155,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHELBURNE FARMS - VERMONT FEED — $90,000 · OtherVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION — $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $70,000 · OtherLIVING CLASSROOMS — $65,000 · OtherOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $127,000 · OtherOUTRIGHT VERMONT+41 more — $775,600 · Other+41 morePRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC — $215,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATI…FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD — $205,000 · Arts & CultureFLYNN CENT…FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS …+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureINTERVALE CENTER INC — $340,000 · EmploymentINTERVALE…VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $75,000 · EmploymentVERMONT S…SOUTH HERO LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · EducationSOUTH HER…President and Fellows of Middlebury College — $100,000 · EducationPresident…Northern Forest Center Inc — $95,000 · EducationNorthern …THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES — $35,000 · EducationTHE CENTE…RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT — $28,000 · EducationRURAL EDU…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesBURLINGTON BICYCLE PROJECT CORP — $60,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $43,600 · Human ServicesOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $160,000 · International
Environment$1,487,000Other$1,740,600Arts & Culture$472,500Employment$415,000Education$403,000Human Services$203,600International$160,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $680,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC — $340,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $261,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC — $215,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD — $205,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $168,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH HERO LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $127,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc — $95,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC — $90,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC — $75,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBURLINGTON BICYCLE PROJECT CORP — $60,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC — $60,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budget350ORG — $56,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVermont Community Garden Network Inc — $45,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $43,600 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $42,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGENERATOR INC — $40,200 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNew Moran Inc — $37,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES — $35,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLOCAL MOTION INC — $34,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetRURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT — $28,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetNEW LEARNING JOURNEY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNorth Star Community Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBEE THE CHANGE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetNORTHWEST EARTH INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMAIDU SUMMIT CONSORTIUM — $10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetVERMONT PARKS FOREVER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetVNA Hospice of Indian River County Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 INTERVALE CENTER INC
  • Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS
  • Who funds PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC
  • Who funds FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC
  • Who funds SOUTH HERO LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds OUTRIGHT VERMONT
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
  • Who funds GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College
  • Who funds Northern Forest Center Inc
  • Who funds SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
  • Who funds BURLINGTON BICYCLE PROJECT CORP
  • Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds 350ORG
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC
  • Who funds FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM
  • Who funds Vermont Community Garden Network Inc
  • Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GENERATOR INC
  • Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC
  • Who funds New Moran Inc
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES
  • Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds LOCAL MOTION 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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT52.3× affinity25 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 · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Trout Lily Foundation · High Meadows Fund Inc · The Waterwheel Foundation · The Argosy Foundation · The Onda Foundation Inc · The University of Vermont Medical Center

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 L Z Francis Foundation Ima 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 110%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 15%
  • Cathedral Square Corporation73% of income from government
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc73% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc52% of income from government
  • Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc51% of income from government
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc42% of income from government
  • Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc29% of income from government
  • Vermont Community Garden Network Inc28% of income from government
  • South Hero Library Foundation Inc28% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc23% of income from government
  • Local Motion Inc19% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc17% of income from government
  • The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis17% of income from government
  • Champlain Housing Trust15% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont13% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc13% of income from government
  • Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc12% of income from government
  • Vermont Parks Forever Inc8% of income from government
  • Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium7% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms3% of income from government
  • South Hero Land Trust Inc1% of income from government
  • Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College1% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc0% of income from government
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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