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Periwinkle Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$117k
Granted FY2022
20
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Housing & Shelter$275kHuman Services$166kPublic Benefit$146kYouth Development$46kAnimals$26kFood & Nutrition$9kArts & Culture$8kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k16 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 EVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER$800
BRATTLEBORO AREA SR MEALS$800
VERMONT INDEPENDENT MEDIA$700
WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER$700
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MEETING WATERS YMCA: $3k → 11%MEETING WATERS YMCA: $2k → 11%MEETING WATERS YMCA: $1k → 11%MEETING WATERS YMCA: $1k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN VT COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN VT COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN VT COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN VT COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 11%SOUTHEASTERN VT COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 11%BROADBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER: $17k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$661k · 20 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against -15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
15

Total granted

$661k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
-15%

Still filing today

70%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GC
    GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $190k · revenue +214%
  • VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD
    5× · 2018–2022 · $144k · revenue +105%
  • WP
    WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT
    5× · 2018–2022 · $88k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • BB
    BROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue -76%
  • WC
    WINDHAM COUNTY HEAT FUND INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • NS
    NELL SATHER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
2
Brattleboro Community Television Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Vermont Center for Family Studies

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.

Human Services
5
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.

Community Improvement
6
Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

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…

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8
Vermont Assoc of Area Agencies on Aging

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.

Philanthropy
9
Brattleboro Senior Meals Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Vermont Psychological Services Former Behavior Therapy & Psychotherapy

Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behavior & psychological problems.

Health
11
Vermont Insurance Agents Assoc Inc

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.

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12
Windham County Safe Place Child Advocacy & Se Unit/Special Investigation

Provide assistance to children who have been physically or sexually abused and adults who may have been sexually assaulted in windham county, vermont.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC: $189,662 · OtherGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INCTHE GATHERING PLACE: $20,200 · OtherTHE GATHERING PLACEGUILFORD CARES INC: $20,000 · OtherGUILFORD CARES INC+21 more: $39,000 · Other+21 moreVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $144,386 · Arts & CultureVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST…+1 more: $3,200 · Arts & CultureWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $87,729 · EducationWINSTON PROUTY…+1 more: $2,700 · EducationWINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC: $84,012 · Housing & ShelterWINDHAM & WIN…Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc: $38,864 · Youth Development+1 more: $800 · Youth DevelopmentBROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $16,848 · Human ServicesMEETING WATERS YMCA: $6,500 · Human ServicesSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $5,400 · Human ServicesWINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $26,407 · AnimalsVERMONT FOODBANK: $7,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$268,862Arts & Culture$147,586Education$90,429Housing & Shelter$84,012Youth Development$39,664Human Services$28,748Animals$26,407Food & Nutrition$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC: $189,662 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $144,386 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $87,729 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC: $84,012 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc: $38,864 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetWINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $26,407 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetBROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $16,848 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEETING WATERS YMCA: $6,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINTERACTION INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $5,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE INC: $4,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Independent Media Inc: $3,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC: $2,700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING FOR SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 MEETING WATERS YMCA ↗
  • Who funds INTERACTION INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Vermont Community…Thomas Thompson TrustBen & Jerry's Foundat…The Windham Foundatio…Sorg-Vogt Charitable …Agnes M Lindsay TrustBermil Foundation IncPrice Chopper's Golub…The Bessemer Giving F…Vermont Childrens Tru…Vermont Afterschool I…Richard E and Deborah…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT32.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Periwinkle Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Periwinkle Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 75%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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