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Macleay Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LET'S GROW KIDS | $100,000 |
| NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER | $30,000 |
| VERMONT PUBLIC | $25,000 |
| THE BRIDGE | $25,000 |
| ASCUTNEY OUTDOORS | $12,500 |
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 (FY18–23, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- NBNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +256%
- MAMt Ascutney Outdoors Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +59%
- RARESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC3× · 2018–2022 · $100k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +600%
- VCVermont Community FoundationVermont Publicone grant, 2023 · $50k
- VCVermont Community FoundationVT Floodone grant, 2024 · $25k
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
To protect and enhance the natural resources of vermont in order to promote the well-being of present and future generations of vermonters and visitors; preserve and aid in the preservation of open land along rivers and lakes; protect and…
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,…
The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…
Rooted in vermont since 1977, the vermont land trust unites land and lives for the enduring benefit of people and the place we share. we help people protect, care for, and connect to land. this includes the farms, forests, natural areas,…
To ensure the sustainability of future mountain biking in vermont. attain permission from private and public landowners to build, promote responsible riding, conservation and youth participation
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
Fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location of business enterprises within the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, and having its principal purpose be industrial and economic development of one or more political…
Vermont woodlands association's (vwa) mission is to educate and advocate for the practices of productive stewardship, use, and enjoyment of vermont's woodlands. we achieve this mission by delivering educational programs and technical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Elevate Youth Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds KELLOGG-HUBBARD LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PUBLIC CO ↗
- Who funds CROSS VERMONT TRAIL ASSOCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds RETREAT FARM LTD ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PARKS FOREVER 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 · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Larsen Fund · Oakland Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Macleay 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.
- Elevate Youth Services Inc — 88% of income from government
- Cross Vermont Trail Assocation Inc — 33% of income from government
- Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
- Kellogg-Hubbard Library — 10% of income from government
- Vermont Parks Forever Inc — 8% of income from government
- North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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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