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Lgbtq Fund of Vermont Incorporated

The LGBTQ Fund of Vermont promotes the substantive, valuable contributions LBGTQ donors make to the broader community.

$271k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$347kEducation$220kArts & Culture$136kYouth Development$56kHousing & Shelter$42kPublic Benefit$40kEmployment$30kFood & Nutrition$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $132,347, the rows itemized in this filing. The $271,278 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $138,931 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $126k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$215k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Schoolhouse$35,000
Friends of the Historic Playhouse Theatre$23,197
Public Assets Institute$20,100
Bosque School$15,000
Vermont Public$12,200
Outright Vermont$10,750
HANDS$10,000
Committee on Temporary Shelter$6,100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Shoga Films Foundation: $6k → 10%Bosque School: $15k → 14%Vermont Women's Fund: $101k → 9%The Schoolhouse: $35k → 10%Friends of the Historic Playhouse Theatre: $23k → 10%Vermont Women's Fund: $95k → 9%The Schoolhouse: $35k → 10%Chandler Center for the Arts: $9k → 10%Vermont Womens Fund: $80k → 9%The Schoolhouse: $35k → 10%Friends of the Historic Playhouse Theatre: $7k → 10%Vermont Women's Fund: $50k → 9%The Schoolhouse: $35k → 10%Friends of the Historic Playhouse Theatre: $7k → 10%Vermont Community Foundation: $21k → 9%The Schoolhouse: $35k → 10%Friends of the Historic Playhouse Theatre: $5k → 10%The Schoolhouse: $30k → 10%Vermont Stage Company: $50k → 10%Outright Vermont: $30k → 10%Champlain Housing Trust: $26k → 10%First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington: $12k → 10%Champlain Housing Trust: $10k → 10%First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington: $6k → 10%Flynn Center for the Performing Arts: $5k → 10%Vermont Works for Women: $30k → 10%Vermont Public: $12k → 10%HANDS: $10k → 10%Vermont Public: $11k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$441k · 8 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$441k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+45%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TS
    The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $205k · revenue +39%
  • OV
    OUTRIGHT VERMONT
    3× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +181%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE HISTORIC PLAYHOUSE THEATRE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • VS
    VERMONT STAGE COMPANY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • VW
    VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +17%
  • CC
    CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +45%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Weston Playhouse Theater

The weston playhouse theater is vermont's oldest professional theater company and, with its multi-stage summer festival and year-round educational and outreach programs, is dedicated to quality theater and broad community support.

Arts & Culture
2
Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

See schedule othe mission of the vermont council on world affairs is to promote awareness and understanding of the world and its people, places and cultures through education and engagement. the future of vermont depends upon the world…

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3
Vermont Public Radio

Listener-supported Vermont Public Radio has been serving the people of Vermont and the surrounding region since 1977. As Vermonts only statewide public radio network, VPR provides an essential and trusted independent voice for news,…

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4
Voices for Vermonts Children

To promote public policy that enhances the lives of children and youth in vermont.

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5
Vermont Humanities Council

Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.

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6
Ywca of Vermont Inc

Ywca vermont is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services
7
Alliance for a Better Vermont

Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.

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8
Vermont Community Loan Fund

Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont

Housing & Shelter
9
Vermont Etv Inc

Vermont pbs celebrates the innovation and creative spirit of vermont, our neighbors in new england, new york and canada, and civic society beyond, to spark community and democracy in our world. we offer programming and events that connect,…

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10
Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.

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11
Vermont Studio Center Inc

To support artists and writers by providing studio residencies in an inclusive international community, honoring creative work as the communication of spirit through form.

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12
Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Helping and Nurturing Diverse Seniors. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $346,900 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONThe Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc: $205,000 · OtherThe Schoolhouse Learning Center…HELPING AND NURTURING DIVERSE SENIORS: $20,000 · OtherHELPING AND NURTURING DIVERSE S…FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH: $18,000 · OtherFIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH+1 more: $6,000 · OtherVERMONT STAGE COMPANY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT STAGE CO…FRIENDS OF THE HISTORIC PLAYHOUSE THEATRE INC: $42,447 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE H…VERMONT PUBLIC CO: $23,415 · Arts & CultureVERMONT PUBLIC C…CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $9,150 · Arts & CultureCHANDLER CENTER …FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD: $5,300 · Arts & CultureOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $56,200 · Public Safety & DisasterCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST: $35,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $6,100 · Housing & ShelterPUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC: $40,250 · Public BenefitVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $30,200 · Community ImprovementBosque School: $15,000 · Education
Philanthropy$346,900Other$249,000Arts & Culture$130,312Public Safety & Disaster$56,200Housing & Shelter$41,600Public Benefit$40,250Community Improvement$30,200Education$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $346,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc: $205,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $56,200 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetVERMONT STAGE COMPANY: $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HISTORIC PLAYHOUSE THEATRE INC: $42,447 over 4y, 11% of budgetPUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC: $40,250 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST: $35,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $30,200 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC CO: $23,415 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING AND NURTURING DIVERSE SENIORS: $20,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetBosque School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $9,150 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $6,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD: $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Vermont Community…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…National Life Group C…Vermont Council on th…Venetos Foundation IncTrout Lily FoundationThe Windham Foundatio…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Vermont Community FoundationVT27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Venetos Foundation Inc · Trout Lily Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lgbtq Fund of Vermont Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lgbtq Fund of Vermont Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Champlain Housing Trust: 15% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont: 13% of income from government
  • The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Stage Company: 4% of income from government
  • Chandler Center for the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Public Co: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Lgbtq Fund of Vermont Incorporated through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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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