· Public charity
MENTOR Vermont Inc
MENTOR Vermont leads, expands, and strengthens the mentoring movement, building capacity to make high-quality relationships accessible to all young people.
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.
The 16 grants below total $615,516 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $633,416 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $374k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Everybody Wins Vermont | $95,000 |
| King Street Youth Center | $76,650 |
| DREAM Program Inc | $71,000 |
| The Mentor Connector | $69,300 |
| Spectrum Youth & Family Svs | $62,466 |
| Mt Abraham Unified School District | $45,866 |
| Champlain Valley School Distr | $40,600 |
| Caledonia Central Supervisory Union | $39,000 |
| Youth First Mentoring- Washington Central Friends of Education | $25,500 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters VT | $25,000 |
| Windsor County Mentors | $21,500 |
| Grand Isle County Mentoring | $15,300 |
| Mentoring Project of the Upper Valley | $11,400 |
| Milton Family Community Center | $6,000 |
| Mountain Views Supervisory Union | $5,900 |
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 (FY17–25, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 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
- TMTHE MENTOR CONNECTOR INC8× · 2017–2025 · $596k · revenue +98% · 32% of their budget
- TDTHE DREAM PROGRAM INC8× · 2017–2025 · $591k · revenue +303%
- EWEVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC8× · 2017–2025 · $481k · revenue +55% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCALEDONIA CENTRAL SUPERVISORY UNIONone grant, 2021 · $28k
- CCCaledonia Central Supervisoryone grant, 2020 · $19k
- IIINTERACTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +59%
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.
Giv empowers young people with intensive, hands-on learning experiences in college settings which inspire their academic and creative passions, build confidence and leadership, and expand their sense of possibility.
Our mission is to strengthen families and communities by improving human relationships. We do this through the training of expert family therapists, advisors, leaders, and family members in Bowen Family Systems Theory.
MENTOR Vermont leads, expands, and strengthens the mentoring movement, building capacity to make high-quality relationships accessible to all young people.
Up for learning supports educational communities' work toward systemic transformation, engaging all learners, and increasing the authentic voice of youth in learning and decision-making. we believe all young people have the right to a…
The Center is a resource for family growth and development in Rutland County, Vermont.
Stepping Stones cultivates strong mentoring relationships and community spaces for youth ages 10-24 to foster personal growth, compassion and responsibility.
To promote justice for all students in the vermont education system through organizing and building community power, and developing and promoting ethnic studies, disability studies, native american studies and lgbtqia+ curriculum and…
To work towards creating healthy, safer, stronger, and more connected communities through educating youth in restorative justice and by giving youth respondents a second chance to be part of the community.
We provide access, equity, and validation to foster and system impacted youth creatives ages 16-24 through media arts programming and mentoring helping them bridge the digital divide and develop their creative confidence, upleveling our…
To promote public policy that enhances the lives of children and youth in vermont.
The vermont coalition of runaway and homeless youth programs mission is to ensure that youth have access to the support services they need to be safe and stable. to accomplish this, the coalition works to: ensure continued funding for…
To provide alternative methods of restitution for first-time offenders of the criminal code (both adults and juveniles).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milton Family Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Baba Tree International. 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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 35 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 THE MENTOR CONNECTOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE DREAM PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Windsor County Mentors Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON CENTRAL FRIENDS OF EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Franklin County Caring Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON COMMUNITY YOUTH COALITION ↗
- Who funds US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds Safer Society Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND ISLE COUNTY MENTORING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Baba Tree International ↗
- Who funds Milton Family Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Black Lives Matter of Greater Burlington DBA Black Liberation Collective ↗
- Who funds GENERATOR INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HowardCenter Inc ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds LARAWAY YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Open Hearth Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Essex Chips 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 · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Vermont Energy Investment Corporation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Elevate Youth Services Inc · The Redducs Chartered Foundation Corp · Peoples United Community 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 MENTOR Vermont Inc 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.
- The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
- Elevate Youth Services Inc — 88% of income from government
- Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
- Milton Family Community Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Washington Central Friends of Education Inc — 56% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Laraway Youth and Family Services Inc — 36% of income from government
- Open Hearth Community Center Inc — 26% of income from government
- Essex Chips Inc — 21% of income from government
- HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
- Inclusive Arts Vermont 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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