· Private foundation
NSB Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Elevate Youth Services | $50,000 |
| Vermont Professionals of Color Network | $35,000 |
| Champlain College | $30,000 |
| Community College of Vermont | $500 |
| Good Samaritan Haven | $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 (FY22–25, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +10% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- VAVERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $125k · revenue +100%
- LFLund Family Center Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +26%
- EYELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- NWNAACP - Windham County Vermont Branchone grant, 2020 · $100k
- VFVOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -13%
- MJMIGRANT JUSTICE INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -30%
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.
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.
It is Vabirs mission to help employers meet their staffing needs for a stable skilled Workforce and to advocate public and private policies that encourage and increase access for persons with disabilities in the work environment.
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…
Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.
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.
Ywca vermont is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
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.
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…
The community justice network of vermont unites the efforts of vermonters seeking to make restorative responses available for people whose lives are
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Afterschool Inc and the most unlike its peers is Migrant Justice Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 AFTERSCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Lund Family Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR VERMONTS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MIGRANT JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NFI Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN 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 · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The University of Vermont Medical Center · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 NSB 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.
- Elevate Youth Services Inc — 88% of income from government
- Good Samaritan Haven Inc — 63% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Afterschool Inc — 42% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Migrant Justice 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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