· Private foundation
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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $334k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $232k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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.
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
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 INC7× · 2017–2024 · $680k · revenue +67%- ICINTERVALE CENTER INC4× · 2018–2024 · $340k · revenue +33%
SHELBURNE FARMS3× · 2022–2024 · $261k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- NMNew Moran Incone grant, 2017 · $37k · 91% of their budget
- NSNorth Star Community Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +83%
- FMFAIRBANKS MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $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.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
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…
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
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…
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…
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…
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…
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
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 field is 19% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
- Cathedral Square Corporation — 73% of income from government
- Groundworks Collaborative Inc — 73% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- Vermont Community Garden Network Inc — 28% of income from government
- South Hero Library Foundation Inc — 28% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Local Motion Inc — 19% of income from government
- Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
- Champlain Housing Trust — 15% of income from government
- Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Vermont Parks Forever Inc — 8% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- South Hero Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.