· Private foundation
Periwinkle Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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 FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k16 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE | $29,826 |
| VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST | $26,221 |
| WINDHAM AND WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST | $25,346 |
| WINSTON PROUTY CENTER | $19,897 |
| GUILFORD CARES | $3,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BRATTLEBORO | $1,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,400 |
| SOUTHEASTERN VT COMMUNITY ACTION | $1,000 |
| MEETING WATERS YMCA | $1,000 |
| YOUTH SERVICES | $1,000 |
| WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $800 |
| BRATTLEBORO AREA SR MEALS | $800 |
| BRATTLEBORO EVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER | $800 |
| VERMONT INDEPENDENT MEDIA | $700 |
| BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE | $700 |
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 (FY18–22, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +56% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 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
- GCGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC5× · 2018–2022 · $190k · revenue +214%
VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD5× · 2018–2022 · $144k · revenue +105%- WPWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT5× · 2018–2022 · $88k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- BBBROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue -76%
- WCWINDHAM COUNTY HEAT FUND INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $2k
- NSNELL SATHER SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
Brattleboro Community Television, Inc. (BCTV) is a community media center serving eight towns in southern Windham County, Vermont. OUR MISSION - To promote civic engagement and transparency, and to empower community members to share their…
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
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 community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
The Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging exists to be a community force in creating and sustaining opportunities for elders and caregivers in our region to help assure that elders are able to maintain maximum independence and quality of…
The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…
The Vermont Association of Area Agencies on Aging (V4A)supports and strengthens Vermonts five Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) to ensure that all Vermonters are able to age with health, independance and dignity.
The mission of brattleboro senior meals inc is to maintain the quality of life for the senior citizens in the community by providing high quality congregate and home-delivered meals to accommodate nutritional needs in an atmosphere that…
Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behavior & psychological problems.
To promote and represent the common business interest of independent insurance agents within industry and before government and the public, consistent with the best interest of the insurance buying public.
Provide assistance to children who have been physically or sexually abused and adults who may have been sexually assaulted in windham county, vermont.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Broad Brook Community Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
- Who funds WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds INTERACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MEETING WATERS YMCA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Independent Media Inc ↗
- Who funds IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING FOR SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER 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 · Thomas Thompson Trust · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Bermil Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant 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 Periwinkle 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.
- Windham & Windsor Housing Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- Vermont Adult Learning Inc — 78% of income from government
- Meeting Waters Ymca — 75% of income from government
- Groundworks Collaborative Inc — 73% of income from government
- Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 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.