· Private foundation
Lamson Howell Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| Braintree Elementary School | $6,000 |
| Gifford Memorial Hospital | $6,000 |
| Randolph Union High School | $5,000 |
| Central Vermont Adult Basic Education | $5,000 |
| Randolph Union High School | $5,000 |
| The ARTS Bus | $5,000 |
| Orange County Parent Child Center | $5,000 |
| The White River Valley Herald | $5,000 |
| Chandler Center for the Arts | $4,000 |
| Bethany Church | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +17% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SRSunrise Rotary - Randolph VTone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 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
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 60 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lamson Howell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lamson Howell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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