· Private foundation
Lamson Howell Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Farr's Hill | $13,500 |
| White River Valley Chamber of Commerce | $11,080 |
| Ridgeline Outdoor Collective | $7,500 |
| White River Partnership | $7,000 |
| Safeline | $6,500 |
| Gifford Memorial Hospital | $6,000 |
| Braintree Elementary School | $6,000 |
| Central Vermont Adult Basic Education | $5,000 |
| The White River Valley Herald | $5,000 |
| The ARTS Bus | $5,000 |
| Orange County Parent Child Center | $5,000 |
| Randolph Union High School | $5,000 |
| Randolph Union High School | $5,000 |
| Chandler Center for the Arts | $4,000 |
| Vermont Philharmonic | $3,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- CCCHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +73%
- ABARTS BUS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $48k · revenue +208%
- CVCENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- BHBRAINTREE HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $15k
- EREast Randolph Community Centerone grant, 2021 · $8k
- GMGreen Mountain Robotics Incone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
BALE is a community resource center devoted to the creation and development of farm, food and local economy initiatives in the Upper White River Valley of Vermont.
The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.
The Center is a resource for family growth and development in Rutland County, Vermont.
Promote business opportunities
This organization is a Chamber of Commerce. Its main purpose is to help promote the area and surrounding towns to tourists.
Industrial and commercial development.
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
Center provides a supportive gathering place for community members over the age of 50 with free & donation based programs. These programs promote social, physical & emotional wellbeing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Randolph Area Community Development Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Arts Bus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 60 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 CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGELINE OUTDOOR COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds ARTS BUS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds White River Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PHILHARMONIC INC ↗
- Who funds LIL SUNSHINE CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE RIVER VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival ↗
- Who funds White River Craft Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKFIELD COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SAFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds Orange County Parent Child Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT ↗
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: Ada Brandon Charitable Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · The Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lamson Howell Foundation Inc 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.
- Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc — 75% of income from government
- Safeline Inc — 64% of income from government
- Orange County Parent Child Center Inc — 63% of income from government
- Randolph Area Community Development Corporation — 51% of income from government
- Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 15% of income from government
- White River Partnership Inc — 4% of income from government
- Chandler Center for the Arts Inc — 2% 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.
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