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Larsen Fund
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k103 grants · $395k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $504k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA ZOO | $68,000 |
| STERLING COLLEGE | $45,000 |
| NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER | $30,000 |
| THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| LET'S GROW KIDS INC | $25,000 |
| LITERACY PARTNERS INC | $25,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY | $18,000 |
| CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE | $15,500 |
| COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $15,000 |
| TU DANCE | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS | $15,000 |
| SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $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 (FY19–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
122 repeat relationships — 95 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 14 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $223k · revenue +52%
- HSHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC3× · 2019–2021 · $210k · revenue +23%
- CTChildren's Theatre Company and School6× · 2019–2024 · $178k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- RAREAL ART WAYS INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +0%
- RRRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INCone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -9%
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VERMONTone grant, 2019 · $24k
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.
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 vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Retro Report Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
138 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. 138 of the 179 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 STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Literacy Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds Real News Project Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RETRO REPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLAYWRIGHTS' CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYZATA SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Boswell Family Foundation · Edward C & Ann T Roberts 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 Larsen Fund 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.
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- North Florida Land Trust Inc — 81% of income from government
- Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc — 75% of income from government
- Central Vermont Council On Aging Inc — 74% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Vermont River Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
- Kingdom Trail Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Friends of the Mad River — 12% of income from government
- Orchard Valley Waldorf School Inc — 10% of income from government
- Catamount Trail Association — 10% of income from government
- Sterling College — 10% of income from government
- Kellogg-Hubbard Library — 10% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc — 3% of income from government
- Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- People's Health and Wellness Clinic — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket 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.
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