· Private foundation
Louise Judith and Edgar May Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASCUTNEY OUTDOORS | $6,500 |
| COCHRAN'S SKI CENTER | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $6,000 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $5,000 |
| USCRI | $5,000 |
| COPLEY HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| JENNA'S PROMISE | $5,000 |
| SHELBURNE COMM SCHOOL BAND | $3,000 |
| DISMAS OF VERMONT | $3,000 |
| LUND CENTER | $3,000 |
| CHILL | $3,000 |
| LAMOILLE RESTORATIVE CENTER | $3,000 |
| MARTHA'S COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON | $2,500 |
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, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2021–2023 · $13k · revenue +40%
- JTJenna Tatro Memorial Fund3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +16%
SHELBURNE FARMS4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- TWTHE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -1%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Our mission is to strengthen families and communities by improving human relationships. We do this through the training of expert family therapists, advisors, leaders, and family members in Bowen Family Systems Theory.
Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
To ensure all vermonters are free from gun violence
Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behavior & psychological problems.
Giv empowers young people with intensive, hands-on learning experiences in college settings which inspire their academic and creative passions, build confidence and leadership, and expand their sense of possibility.
The vermont network aims to uproot the causes of domestic and sexual violence in vermont and create a world free of oppression where actions, beliefs and systems support all people to thrive. we accomplish this through our key programs…
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.
Elevate's mission is to promote safety, competence, and confidence as youth create their path through adolescence and into adulthood.elevate provides a wide range of innovative and effective programs that empower and enrich the lives of…
Our mission is to build a stronger northwest vermont by mobilizing our community to improve people's lives. united way isn't just our name - it's how we work. we bring together individuals, nonprofits, businesses, and government entities…
The Center is a resource for family growth and development in Rutland County, Vermont.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Legal Aid Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Windham Foundation 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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 57 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 THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Jenna Tatro Memorial Fund ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE RESTORATIVE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Copley Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc ↗
- Who funds MENTOR Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHAS KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON THE BALL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds HowardCenter Inc ↗
- Who funds Dismas of Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT VERMONT ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Fanny Allen Corporation · Oakland Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · The Kelsey Trust · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust
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 Louise Judith and Edgar May Foundation 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.
- Vermont Legal Aid Inc — 72% of income from government
- Prevent Child Abuse Vermont — 58% of income from government
- Lamoille Restorative Center Inc — 58% of income from government
- Mentor Vermont Inc — 58% of income from government
- Springfield Area Parent Child Center — 53% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
- Lamoille Family Center Inc — 36% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
- HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- The Windham Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Common Roots Inc — 0% of income from government
- Copley Hospital 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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