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Marvin L and Norma J Hathaway Foundation Inc at a glance

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Marvin L and Norma J Hathaway Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$305kArts & Culture$117kRecreation & Sports$84kAnimals$75kHealth$59kCommunity Improvement$52kHuman Services$33kYouth Development$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$3,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$481k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES$13,000
RCMA$5,000
CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION$5,000
ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA$5,000
UNITED WAY OF LAMOILLE COUNTY$5,000
VNA HOSPICE FOUNDATION$5,000
GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY$5,000
NORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE$5,000
SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION$3,843
CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE$3,500
VERMONT KIDNEY ASSOCIATION$3,500
HALO$2,500
REVITALIZING WATERBURY$2,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH$2,500
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $59k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $8k → 9%CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $5k → 9%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 9%CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $5k → 9%NORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $3k → 10%CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $5k → 9%CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $4k → 9%CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE: $4k → 9%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $5k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $5k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $5k → 12%SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION: $4k → 12%SHINING LIGHT GARDEN FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$729k · 21 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$729k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+69%

Still filing today

52%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GM
    GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +43%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +98%
  • UW
    United Way of Lamoille County Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue ×45
  • LA
    Lamoille Area Cancer Network Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • WC
    WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +63%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
3
United Way of Rutland County Inc

We unite people and resources to facilitate lasting positive change based on community needs.

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4
Vermont Assoc of Area Agencies on Aging

The Vermont Association of Area Agencies on Aging (V4A)supports and strengthens Vermonts five Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) to ensure that all Vermonters are able to age with health, independance and dignity.

Philanthropy
5
Vermont Humanities Council

Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.

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6
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
7
Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.

—
8
Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut Inc

VNA of South Central Connecticut, Inc. is dedicated to enhancing the health, well being and quality of life at home and in the community is serves.

—
9
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation

Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…

Environment
10
Vermont Association of Realtors Inc

The Mission of the Organization is to serve its members by providing resources that help them deliver real estate services in an ethical and professional manner as well as to advocate for the rights of property owners in Vermont.

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11
Upper Valley Comm Health Services Inc

UVCHS in a not for profit organization that provides medical dental behavioral heath and pharmacy services. Our goal is to make quality care available to everyone regardless of demographic or economic status. We accept all major insurances…

Health
12
Central Vermont Council On Aging Inc

Cvcoa supports older vermonters in leading healthy, independent, meaningful and dignified lives in their homes and communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Indian River County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Vermont Kidney Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INCUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $90,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INCQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC: $81,500 · PhilanthropyQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INCUnited Way of Lamoille County Inc: $80,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Lamoille County IncINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyRCMA: $40,000 · OtherRCMACENTRAL VT COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $37,000 · OtherCENTRAL VT COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCILVermont Public Radio: $32,000 · OtherVermont Public RadioHUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACH: $31,150 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY OF VERO BEACHHIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $29,000 · OtherHIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTERHALO: $28,500 · OtherHALOVNA HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $23,500 · OtherVNA HOSPICE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $11,500 · OtherINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $12,500 · OtherCentral Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc: $22,000 · Human ServicesGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesSenior Resource Association Inc: $3,843 · Human ServicesShining Light Garden Foundation Inc: $3,500 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $8,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $40,000 · AnimalsRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $1,500 · AnimalsLamoille Area Cancer Network Inc: $5,000 · HealthVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentREVITALIZING WATERBURY INC: $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$376,000Other$255,150Human Services$59,343Arts & Culture$43,500Animals$41,500Health$5,000Environment$3,500Recreation & Sports$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INC: $100,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $90,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC: $81,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetUnited Way of Lamoille County Inc: $80,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $8,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLamoille Area Cancer Network Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSenior Resource Association Inc: $3,843 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShining Light Garden Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT KIDNEY ASSOCIATION: $3,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetNORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetREVITALIZING WATERBURY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Lamoille County Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
  • Who funds Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc ↗
  • Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Lamoille Area Cancer Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Senior Resource Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Shining Light Garden Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT KIDNEY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST DISABLED ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REVITALIZING WATERBURY INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Life Group C…The Vermont Community…Indian River Communit…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Bernard a Egan Founda…Central Vermont Medic…Vermont Catholic Char…Archie S Wingfield Jr…Richard E and Deborah…Community Foundation …The Bessemer Giving F…The Ayco Charitable F…
National Life Group Charitable Foundation IncVT21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · Central Vermont Medical Center Inc · Vermont Catholic Charities Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marvin L and Norma J Hathaway Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin L and Norma J Hathaway Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Vermont Kidney Association: 100% of income from government
  • Capstone Community Action Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Green Mountain United Way Inc: 15% of income from government
  • United Way of Lamoille County Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Revitalizing Waterbury Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Washington County Mental Health Services Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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