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MAJIC Vermont Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $176k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $480k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT PUBLIC CO | $120,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $110,000 |
| CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INCORPORATED | $80,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC | $60,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| DON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGHSCHOOL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE | $50,000 |
| ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC | $40,000 |
| CENTER FOR CIVIC EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $27,500 |
| FOOD & FRIENDS INC | $15,000 |
| GREATER DC DIAPER BANK | $12,500 |
| NOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC | $11,000 |
| ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST | $10,000 |
| VTDIGGER-ORG | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $550k · revenue +50%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2020–2025 · $445k · revenue +63%
- VPVERMONT PUBLIC CO3× · 2023–2025 · $320k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- FOFriends of the Ilsley Libraryone grant, 2024 · $50k
- MHMANY HANDS INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +0%
- PMPORTER MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +1%
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.
Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
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…
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Children's services
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 31 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 CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PUBLIC CO ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION GRO INC D/B/A HOPE ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DC DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Ilsley Library ↗
- Who funds MANY HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds PORTER MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONCORD HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NOURISH NOW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CIVIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
- Who funds Middlebury Area Land Trust ↗
- Who funds FEMHEALTH USA INC ↗
- Who funds GAR POST 25 INC ↗
- Who funds ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
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 · The Nord Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Snave Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 MAJIC Vermont 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.
- Addison County Community Action Gro Inc D/B/a Hope — 18% of income from government
- Addison County Community Trust — 16% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- United Way of Addison County Inc — 12% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Middlebury Area Land Trust — 2% of income from government
- Manna Food Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Porter Medical Center — 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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