· Private foundation
National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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: 48% of NATIONAL LIFE GROUP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k705 grants · $1.3M
- $10k–50k43 grants · $707k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $695k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNGER FREE VERMONT | $125,000 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $125,000 |
| LET'S GROW KIDS | $125,000 |
| CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST | $60,000 |
| CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER | $55,000 |
| HOWARD CENTER ATTN MIKE GLOD | $55,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| THE VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS | $50,000 |
| PARKLAND FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CENTRAL VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| THE FAMILY PLACE | $35,000 |
| VOGEL ALCOVE | $35,000 |
| SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $29,048 |
| CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY | $25,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $539k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
301 repeat relationships — 296 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 388 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $876k 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
- VFVERMONT FOODBANK2× · 2023–2024 · $302k · revenue +6%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK2× · 2023–2024 · $128k · revenue +29%
- PFPARKLAND FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $118k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- VFVERMONT FOODBANKone grant, 2022 · $130k
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOODBANKone grant, 2022 · $106k
- PFPARKLAND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $60k
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.
Children's services
UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.
Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
The vermont network aims to uproot the causes of domestic and sexual violence in vermont and create a world free of oppression where actions, beliefs and systems support all people to thrive. we accomplish this through our key programs…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Southwestern vermont health care exists to provide exceptional health care and comfort to the people we serve. see schedule o for additional details.
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…
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…
Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
The vermont center for ecostudies advances the conservation of wildlife across the americas through research, monitoring, and citizen engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Catholic Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Michael Zemanek Memorial 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 31 years old; the field is 21. 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 — 0.8% 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.
554 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. 554 of the 1,299 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds PARKLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST OF CENTRAL VERMONT ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds VOGEL ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE DALLAS REGIONINC ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT VERMONT ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COMPASS ↗
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 · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Oakland Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Vermont Foodbank
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 National Life Group Charitable Foundation 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
- Vermont Family Network Inc — 81% of income from government
- Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc — 75% of income from government
- Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Good Samaritan Haven Inc — 63% of income from government
- Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
- Circle Inc — 60% of income from government
- Prevent Child Abuse Vermont — 58% of income from government
- Mentor Vermont Inc — 58% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Vermont Rural Education Collaborative Inc — 43% of income from government
- Maquam Bay of Missisquoi Inc — 43% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Montessori School of Central Vt Inc — 31% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
- Salvation Farms Inc — 26% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Vermont Donor Milk Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Addison County Community Action Gro Inc D/B/a Hope — 18% of income from government
- Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 15% of income from government
- Champlain Housing Trust — 15% of income from government
- United Way of Lamoille County Inc — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Kellogg-Hubbard Library — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Friends of Dog Mountain Inc — 7% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chandler Center for the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- People's Health and Wellness Clinic — 2% of income from government
- Dailey Memorial Library — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Central Vermont Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
- Common Roots Inc — 0% of income from government
- River Arts of Morrisville Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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