· Private foundation
Mount Laurel Foundation Inc Co Arthur Short
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of MOUNT LAUREL FOUNDATION INC CO ARTHUR SHORT’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT | $9,000 |
| NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| B RUGGIERE ADAPTIVE SPTS CTR | $6,000 |
| VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI SPORT | $5,000 |
| ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC | $4,000 |
| CAMP THORPE HDP CHILD PRG | $4,000 |
| BENNINGTON TENNIS CENTER | $2,000 |
| GALLOP TO SUCCESS | $2,000 |
| BENNINGTON EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER | $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 (FY17–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 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
- NDNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +211%
VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +133%- BJBart J Ruggiere Adaptive Sports Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- HDHAPPY DAY'S PLAYSCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $4k
- UCUNITED COUNSELING SERVICEone grant, 2022 · $3k
- MCMOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +428%
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.
Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.
The purpose of stepping stones preschool is to promote the social, emotional, and intellectual development of children in the preschool and kindergarten age group. we provide a high-quality, play-based curriculum designed by integrating…
Rainbow Playschool is a nonprofit organization in the foothills of Mt. Tom in Woodstock, Vermont. We provide daycare and preschool services, emphasizing play and outdoor education, to children between the ages of 6 weeks and 5 years old.…
Robins Nest Childrens Center provides high-quality early care and education in a play-based setting.
A pre-k-8 independent school whose mission is to foster the skills, knowledge, personal attributes and work habits to enable children to thrive effectively, meaningfully, and joyfully in the world of today and tomorrow.
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.
Watch Them Grow Children's Center's mission is to provide the highest quality care at an affordable rate for the families in our community. We strive to offer as many educational opportunities as possible for the early childhood and school…
Mountain Tots preschool provides high quality early learning enrichment programs that enhances educational, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development as well as Kindergarten-readiness. We provide preschool and childcare…
To provide plans of care comprised of thoughtfully integrated services that help those with varied abilities live, learn, work, and play throughout their lifetimes.
The Bridge School is a state approved independent Elementary school located in Middlebury, VT. Small by design, Bridge School accepts up to 50 preK-6th grade students annually to ensure students build strong relationships with peers and…
Adaptive Sports at Mount Snow is a volunteer-driven non-profit that provides adaptive sports, recreational opportunities and educational experiences to the Mount Snow community and its visitors throughout the year. Adaptive Sports at Mount…
Education of childcare workers
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Achievement Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gallop to Success. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS ↗
- Who funds Bart J Ruggiere Adaptive Sports Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds GALLOP TO SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NJTL OF BENNINGTON VT INC ↗
- Who funds Bennington Early Childhood Center Inc ↗
- Who funds POWNAL PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds Bennington County Humane Society 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: Let's Grow Kids Inc · Vermont Afterschool Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council · The Orvis Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Mount Laurel Foundation Inc Co Arthur Short 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.
- Arlington Area Childcare Inc — 78% of income from government
- Pownal Preschool Inc — 75% of income from government
- Northshire Day School — 39% of income from government
- Bennington Early Childhood Center Inc — 36% of income from government
- Vermont Achievement Center Inc — 31% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Landmark College Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southwestern Vermont Medical Center — 1% 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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