How much did LUCY D NISBET CHARITABLE FUND grant in FY2025?

Health$260kHuman Services$110kCrime & Legal$82kCommunity Improvement$58kArts & Culture$53kFood & Nutrition$50kEducation$35kHousing & Shelter$30kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$455k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

river

2020

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2021

river

2022

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2023

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2024

river

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 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

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

COTS - COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER$12,500
WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING$10,000
CENTRAL VERMONT ADULT BASIC EDUCATION$10,000
HUNGER FREE VERMONT$10,000
AWARE$10,000
STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$10,000
VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN$10,000
EASTER SEALS OF VERMONT$7,500
AUDUBON VERMONT$7,500
WOMENS' DISMAS HOUSE$7,500
RESOURCE$7,500
GOVERNORS INSTITUTES OF VERMONT$7,500
COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER$5,000
CONNECTICUT RIVER CONSERVANCY$5,000
VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000

02The need

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, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 25 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

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

Total granted

$1.0M

$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+73%

Still filing today

64%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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
5× · 2018–2023 · $255k · revenue +58%
HF
HUNGER FREE VERMONT
8× · 2018–2025 · $82k · revenue +14%
VW
VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN
7× · 2018–2025 · $58k · revenue +24%

Funded once

C
COTS
one grant, 2021 · $15k
UW
United Way of Lamoille County Incgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +136%
CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCILgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +37%

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.

University of Vermont and State

The mission of the uvm foundation is to secure and manage private support for the benefit of the university of vermont.

Education

Vermont Public Co

To broaden and diversify our audience through relevant, trusted information and stories that bring people and communities together.

Arts & Culture

Vermont Energy Education Program Inc

To build a deep understanding of energy and climate through education, inspiring and empowering people to take action for increased sustainability in our communities, economy and environment.

Education

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

Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire Inc

We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.

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Jobs With Justice Inc

The Vermont Workers Center provides technical assistance and information to individuals, groups and organizations. Jobs with Justice educates the public about labor issues.

Employment

Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform

Education of the public about the criminal justice system. Direct services to people struggling with substance use disorder, including case managment and recovery support.

Crime & Legal

Voices for Vermonts Children

Education and advocacy for children.

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Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

Promote understanding of the world and its people, places, and cultures through engagement

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Alliance for a Better Vermont

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

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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

Vermont - Nea

Vermont-nea is a statewide teachers association organized to negotiate teachers' contracts, promote professionalism among teachers, and improve the quality of education of vermont.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathways Vermont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Copley Hospital 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.

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 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/28

the rest of the field

212/2,780

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.

05the grantee network

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

26/27

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$535,125Health$260,000Human Services$110,000Crime & Legal$82,000Community Improvement$58,000Arts & Culture$52,500Food & Nutrition$50,000

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.

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 FoundationVT54.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

5rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AWARE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 222823675 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on AWARE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LUCY D NISBET CHARITABLE FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund?

More from the funding graph

LUCY D NISBET CHARITABLE FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

27 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund?

More from the funding graph