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Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$330kFood & Nutrition$182kHuman Services$162kEducation$95kHousing & Shelter$90kArts & Culture$88kAnimals$65kEmployment$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $83k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $73k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COTS - COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER$12,500
CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION$10,000
WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING$10,000
AWARE$10,000
STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$10,000
VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN$10,000
HUNGER FREE VERMONT$10,000
WOMENS' DISMAS HOUSE$7,500
GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT$7,500
EASTER SEALS OF VERMONT$7,500
RESOURCE$7,500
AUDUBON VERMONT$7,500
VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
PATHWAYS VERMONT$5,000
LUND FAMILY CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 9%EASTER SEALS OF VERMONT: $10k → 9%EASTER SEALS OF VERMONT: $10k → 9%PATHWAYS VERMONT: $5k → 10%STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $15k → 10%EASTER SEALS OF VERMONT: $8k → 9%STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $15k → 10%RESOURCE: $12k → 10%EASTER SEALS OF VERMONT: $5k → 9%Howardcenter Inc: $10k → 10%RESOURCE: $10k → 10%RESOURCE: $10k → 10%RESOURCE: $8k → 10%RESOURCE: $8k → 10%Howardcenter Inc: $5k → 10%Howardcenter Inc: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 25 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
9

Total granted

$1.2M
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+18%

Still filing today

76%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CH
    Copley Hospital Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $305k · revenue +55%
  • HF
    HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +14%
  • CO
    COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • HS
    HOME SHARE NOW INC
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
  • UW
    United Way of Lamoille County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +126%
  • GM
    GREEN MOUNTAIN FARM-TO-SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
2
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.

Community Improvement
3
Vermont Center for Family Studies

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.

Human Services
4
Vermont Psychological Services Former Behavior Therapy & Psychotherapy

Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behavior & psychological problems.

Health
5
Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc

To enable people to cope with, and reduce the hardships of poverty; create sustainable self-sufficiency; and reduce the causes and move toward the elimination of poverty.

Human Services
6
Alliance for a Better Vermont

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

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7
Vermont Public Co

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc

The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.

Community Improvement
9
Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc

The Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging exists to be a community force in creating and sustaining opportunities for elders and caregivers in our region to help assure that elders are able to maintain maximum independence and quality of…

Human Services
10
Vermont Family Network Inc

Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.

Human Services
11
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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12
Vermont Network Against Domestic an Sexual Violence Inc

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…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Vermont Inc and the most unlike its peers is River Arts of Morrisville 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDiverse Mission Organizatio…Legal Aid & Vulnerable Serv…Early Childhood Education C…Vermont Outdoor RecreationPerforming Arts Venues & Or…Vermont Professional & Indu…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr21%19%20–35yr16%37%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%1%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr21%24%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/30
the rest of the field
9%
226/2,490

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
25/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AUDUBON VERMONT — $75,000 · OtherAUDUBON VERMONTAWARE Inc — $50,000 · OtherAWARE IncCENTRAL VT ADULT BASIC EDU — $27,500 · OtherCENTRAL VT ADULT BASIC EDUVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $25,625 · OtherCOMMUNITY SAILING CENTER — $25,000 · OtherGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT — $22,500 · OtherAID TO WOMEN MEN AND CHILDREN — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherWOMENS' DISMAS HOUSE — $17,500 · OtherVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC — $58,000 · OtherVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INCCENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC — $40,000 · OtherCENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INCCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $25,000 · Other+11 more — $92,000 · Other+11 moreCopley Hospital Inc — $305,000 · HealthCopley Hospital Inc+1 more — $5,000 · HealthRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC — $47,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE A NONP…STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesSTEPS TO END DO…Easter Seals Vermont Inc — $32,500 · Human ServicesEaster Seals Ve…HowardCenter Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesHowardCenter In…Lund Family Center Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesLund Family Cen…WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING — $10,000 · Human ServicesWOODSTOCK AREA …+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC — $92,000 · Crime & LegalSalvation Farms Inc — $35,000 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANK — $30,000 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $67,500 · Housing & ShelterRIVER ARTS OF MORRISVILLE INC — $47,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CURRENT INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$498,125Health$310,000Human Services$169,500Crime & Legal$92,000Food & Nutrition$80,000Housing & Shelter$67,500Arts & Culture$62,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCopley Hospital Inc — $305,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC — $92,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $67,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC — $58,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetAWARE Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetRIVER ARTS OF MORRISVILLE INC — $47,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC — $47,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSalvation Farms Inc — $35,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetEaster Seals Vermont Inc — $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $25,625 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT — $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHowardCenter Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP THORPE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLund Family Center Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOME SHARE NOW INC — $12,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetUnited Way of Lamoille County Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CURRENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVermont Childrens Trust Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPATHWAYS VERMONT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAFETY TEAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

The Vermont Community…National Life Group C…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Oakland Foundation IncThe Windham Foundatio…Agnes M Lindsay TrustGeorge W Mergens Foun…Richard E and Deborah…United Way of Northwe…Harris & Frances Bloc…Mascoma Bank Foundati…The Wisdom Connection…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT51.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · George W Mergens Foundation · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Wisdom Connection Inc

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 Lucy D Nisbet Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
  • Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
  • Pathways Vermont Inc — 65% of income from government
  • Aware Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Salvation Farms Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
  • The Safety Team Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 15% of income from government
  • Easter Seals Vermont Inc — 14% of income from government
  • United Way of Lamoille County Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc — 11% of income from government
  • HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation — 8% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Vermont Farm-to-School Inc — 7% of income from government
  • United Christian Academy — 3% of income from government
  • Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Copley Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
  • River Arts of Morrisville Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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