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Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc

The purpose of this non-profit organization is to develop and implement workforce development strategies that support business and industry primarily in our region of vermont (chittenden county) and statewide. These strategies include the launchvt initiative.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$45k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$45k50%
FY20243$45k100%
FY20232$20k100%
FY20222$20k100%
FY20212$20k100%
FY20201$5k100%
FY20192$20k100%
FY20182$45k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$65kCommunity Improvement$50kEnvironment$35kEducation$30kYouth Development$20kScience & Tech$20k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Generator Inc$55,00023%
Beacon LLC$30,0001n/a
Burlington Code Academy LLC$30,0001n/a
Wasted Pbc$15,0001n/a
Biobe Inc$15,0001n/a
The Zion Corporation$15,0001n/a
Packetized Energy Technologies Inc$15,0001n/a
Northview Weather LLC$15,0001n/a
Atmosphoria LLC$15,0001n/a
Vship Inc$15,0001n/a
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All grantees of Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Generator Inc$55,00023%
Beacon LLC$30,0001n/a
Burlington Code Academy LLC$30,0001n/a
Wasted Pbc$15,0001n/a
Biobe Inc$15,0001n/a
The Zion Corporation$15,0001n/a
Packetized Energy Technologies Inc$15,0001n/a
Northview Weather LLC$15,0001n/a
Atmosphoria LLC$15,0001n/a
Vship Inc$15,0001n/a
Drink Plink Inc$15,0001n/a
Nutty Life LLC$5,0001n/a
Little Patakha LLC$5,0001n/a
Pictal Health LLC$5,0001n/a
Lost Lantern Spirits LLC$5,0001n/a
Brightwater Tools$5,0001n/a
Sleep Well Recycling LLC$5,0001n/a

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About Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc

How much does Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc give?
Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $45,000, out of $50,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Community Improvement (23%), Environment (16%).
Who are Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Generator Inc ($55k), Beacon LLC ($30k), Burlington Code Academy LLC ($30k).
Does Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc based?
Lake Champlain Opportunity Fund Inc is based in VT.

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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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