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McCollom Family 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGH HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $8,000 |
| LUCY MCKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY | $7,000 |
| VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS | $5,000 |
| VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| THE UPPER VALLEY HAVEN | $5,000 |
| VERMONT LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| NORTHFIELD MT HERMON SCHOOL FUND | $5,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK INC | $4,000 |
| VERMONT FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| ZACK'S PLACE ENRICHMENT CENTER | $3,000 |
| WOODSTOCK SKI RUNNERS | $3,000 |
| WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING | $3,000 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $3,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +3%- UVUPPER VALLEY HAVEN4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +52%
- VLVermont Law School3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERNone grant, 2023 · $1k
- WAWOODSTOCK AREA MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
Mt. Ascutney Outdoors, Inc's mission is to promote vitality within the community by providing affordable and unique recreational, cultural and educational activities to local residents and visitors from the Upper Valley region of Vermont…
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…
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…
Provide nature-based education and mentoring to youth and adults in southern vermont and western massachusetts.
The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…
Wuvs mission is to empower community-based watershed groups in all parts of the state to protect and restore vermonts waters.
To provide recreation to franklin county, vermont residents through skiing, snowboard, sliding, wilderness trails and sports fields.
The woodstock foundation, inc. promotes conservation, sustainable land use, and heritage as values that are essential to culture, community and the human spirit.
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.
Mwv trails is a nh non-profit dedicated to the creation of a sustainable off-road non-motorized trail network in the mount washington valley of new hampshire, focusing on public use trails designed for mountain bike, trail running and…
Connecticut valley sno-riders, inc. is a volunteer organization founded in 1973 which maintains more than 80 miles of groomed snowmobile trails in vermont.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Land Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodstock Region Journalism Foundation 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.
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 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 42 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 VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds HIGH HORSES CENTER FOR EQUINE- ASSISTED SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Vermont Law School ↗
- Who funds LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Woodstock Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Ski Runners ↗
- Who funds COVER HOME REPAIR INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SKI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Recreation Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Zack's Place Enrichment Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NORMAN WILLIAMS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds PENTANGLE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Woodstock Region Journalism Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England 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 · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Htc Cottee Wurster Family Foundation 96010000 · Frank and Brinna Sands Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Rising Phoenix Foundation Inc · The Rauch Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Birdseye Foundation · Flora R and Isidor M Stettenheim Foundation 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 McCollom Family 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.
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Upper Valley Trails Alliance — 3% of income from government
- Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Norman Williams Public Library Inc — 0% of income from government
- Zack's Place Enrichment Center Inc — 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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