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Let's Grow Kids Inc

To ensure affordable access to high-quality child care for all vermont families by 2025.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$166k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of LET'S GROW KIDS 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.

02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $266,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,224,683 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $958,683 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$166,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN$166,000
BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER: $70k → 9%BRIDGEWATER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC: $70k → 12%BRIDGEWATER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC: $69k → 9%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION HEAD START: $25k → 9%ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE (DBA HAPPY DAYS PLAYSCHOOL): $34k → 11%UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC: $44k → 12%BRIDGEWATER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $23k → 9%MORRISTOWN AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: $11k → 9%UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC: $20k → 12%MARY JOHNSON CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $24k → 9%SUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $70k → 11%MARY JOHNSON CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $20k → 9%UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC: $17k → 12%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $55k → 10%UNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY: $59k → 11%UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC: $7k → 12%CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS: $26k → 14%WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY PLAYSCHOOL INC DBA RAINBOW PLAYSCHOOL: $30k → 9%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $50k → 10%UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC: $7k → 12%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $40k → 10%SUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $21k → 11%RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER: $75k → 12%NECK OF THE WOODS: $59k → 9%ASCENSION CHILDCARE: $35k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $18k → 10%NECK OF THE WOODS: $39k → 9%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $17k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $16k → 10%RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT-CHILD CENTER: $40k → 12%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $13k → 10%PEACHAM CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 12%MAGIC MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $15k → 9%RIVER BRANCH COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $15k → 9%PEACHAM CHILDREN'S CENTER: $20k → 12%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $45k → 10%SEVCA - SOUTHEASTERN VT COMMUNITY ACTION (SEVCA): $6k → 11%THE COLLABORATIVE: $28k → 11%ROBIN'S NEST CHILDREN'S CENTER: $14k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE INC: $88k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE INC: $69k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE INC: $25k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE INC: $25k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE INC: $15k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE INC: $12k → 10%CHARLOTTE DAYCARE CENTER INC: $59k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 47 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
151

Total granted

$6.2M
$3.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+51%

Still filing today

51%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • VA
    VT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×13 · 26% of their budget
  • OC
    Otter Creek Child Center Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $261k · revenue +572%
  • CC
    CHILD CARE RESOURCE
    6× · 2017–2022 · $234k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • BT
    BETH TOWB RUTLAND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • AA
    ABC ACADEMY ST ALBANS LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $75k
  • TT
    TURN TO JOY LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $74k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Nek Community Growth Center

Education of childcare workers

Education
2
Mountain Tots Preschool

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…

Education
3
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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4
Northeast Kingdom Preschool and Childcare Corp

Northeast kingdom preschool and childcare provides safe, affordable, high-quality early childhood education and care for the lyndonville, vt and surrounding communities. families are encouraged to be ambassadors of the program in support…

Education
5
Watch Them Grow Childcare Center

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…

Human Services
6
Valley Village Childcare

Preschool child care

Human Services
7
Northpoint Cooperative Preschool

The general philosophy of Northpoint Cooperative Preschool is that we all learn together - adults and children alike. Guided by our qualified, caring, and endlessly imaginative teachers, co-op parents create an environment of learning and…

—
8
Gorham Community Learning Center Inc

The learning center provides accessible, affordable and flexible childcare and preschool services for the androscoggin valley area.

—
9
The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc

A PreK childcare center and KG-Grade 8 school that values each students unique learning experience, fostering academic excellence, emotional intelligence, and social and environmental justice through five core concepts trust, sharing,…

—
10
Little Beginnings Child Development Ctr

Little Beginnings provides pre kindergarten and day care to children under 6 years of age. We believe that learning and playing are synonymous for the preschool age child. Young children learn best when they have an opportunity to practice…

—
11
Saugatuck Nursery School

To offer a variety of year round (closed in august), full or part day programs for children 2 to 5 years old.

Education
12
Hunger Mountain Child Center Inc

Child care and preschool provider

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Early Learning Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is West River Montessori School. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts & Performanc…Independent SchoolsVermont Community ServicesFood Assistance ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Senior Services & Aging Sup…Ski Racing and Winter Sport…Restorative Justice ProgramsRegional Museums and Cultur…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%4%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr20%21%20–35yr16%38%35–55yr17%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%3%<5yr12%13%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr20%16%20–35yr16%44%35–55yr17%15%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%4/162
the rest of the field
9%
401/4,671

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.

04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 198 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/71
Grantees still filing
57/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Otter Creek Child Center Inc — $261,350 · OtherAFTERSCHOOL COLLABORATIVE LLC — $216,995 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — $188,942 · Other+140 more — $4,684,430 · Other+140 moreVT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN — $1,030,803 · EducationVT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDU…BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL — $209,305 · EducationBUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES ST…NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC — $184,090 · EducationNORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING…Alburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated — $170,000 · EducationAlburgh Family Clubhouse I…WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT — $105,247 · EducationMENTOR Vermont Inc — $80,000 · Education+16 more — $517,565 · Education+16 moreCHILD CARE RESOURCE — $234,291 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE RESOURCEOrange County Parent Child Center Inc — $208,715 · Human ServicesOrange County Paren…UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC — $166,312 · Human ServicesUMBRELLA OF ST JOHN…BRIDGEWATER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $123,100 · Human ServicesBRIDGEWATER AREA CO…Rutland County Parent Child Center Inc — $115,000 · Human ServicesRutland County Pare…NECK OF THE WOODS INC — $97,500 · Human ServicesNECK OF THE WOODS I…SUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $90,846 · Human ServicesRUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMSINC — $70,890 · Human ServicesSPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER — $70,300 · Human ServicesPEACHAM CHILDRENS CENTER — $70,000 · Human ServicesLAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC — $68,973 · Human ServicesUNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC — $59,231 · Human Services+14 more — $387,131 · Human Services+14 moreCOUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY — $162,929 · HealthNORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES — $122,125 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthCabot Community Association Inc — $77,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT COMMUNITY LOAN FUND — $68,534 · Housing & ShelterPITTSFORD VILLAGE FARM DBA PITTSFORD PRESERVATION CORPORATION — $50,000 · Public Benefit
Other$5,351,717Education$2,297,010Human Services$1,762,289Health$395,054Arts & Culture$77,000Housing & Shelter$68,534Public Benefit$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN — $1,030,803 over 7y, 26% of budgetOtter Creek Child Center Inc — $261,350 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCE — $234,291 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetBUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL — $209,305 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetOrange County Parent Child Center Inc — $208,715 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetNORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC — $184,090 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetAlburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated — $170,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetUMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC — $166,312 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetCOUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY — $162,929 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGEWATER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $123,100 over 3y, 14% of budgetNORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES — $122,125 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRutland County Parent Child Center Inc — $115,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT — $105,247 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNECK OF THE WOODS INC — $97,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMENTOR Vermont Inc — $80,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetEARLY LEARNING CENTER INC — $78,881 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCabot Community Association Inc — $77,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetRUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMSINC — $70,890 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPEACHAM CHILDRENS CENTER — $70,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetGreen Mountain Economic Development Corp — $70,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetLAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC — $68,973 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetVERMONT COMMUNITY LOAN FUND — $68,534 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC — $66,940 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVT-HEC INC — $60,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC — $59,231 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE DAY CARE CENTER INC — $58,600 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $56,445 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPITTSFORD VILLAGE FARM DBA PITTSFORD PRESERVATION CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLE CHILD LEARNING CO — $48,391 over 1y, 16% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC — $45,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEAVER BROOK CHILDREN'S SCHOOL INC — $45,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetMary Johnson Children's Center Inc — $44,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GRAMMAR SCHOOL INC — $38,389 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetToddlers Morning Out — $37,200 over 1y, 20% of budgetASCENSION CHILDCARE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC — $33,990 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetNEK LITTLE ONES CORP — $31,517 over 1y, 32% of budgetWoodstock Community Playschool Inc DBA Rainbow Playschool — $30,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION INC — $28,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREEHOUSE CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC — $26,397 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC — $25,780 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $25,267 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARLAND SCHOOL INC — $24,773 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLHOUSE OF BRATTLEBORO INC — $24,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMYERS PROUTY CHILDREN'S CAMPUSES INC — $23,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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 VT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Otter Creek Child Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Parent Child Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST KINGDOM LEARNING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Alburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds UMBRELLA OF ST JOHNSBURY INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEWATER AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Rutland County Parent Child Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds NECK OF THE WOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MENTOR Vermont Inc ↗
  • Who funds EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Cabot Community Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds RUTLAND COMMUNITY PROGRAMSINC ↗

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.

The Vermont Community…Vermont Afterschool I…Vt Association for th…First Children's Fina…Building Bright Futur…First Children's Fina…Vermont Childrens Tru…The Couch Family Foun…Seventh Generation Fo…Turrell FundVermont FoodbankBen & Jerry's Foundat…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT69.3× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Vt Association for the Education of Young Children · First Children's Finance Group · Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council · First Children's Finance · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Seventh Generation Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund · Vermont Foodbank · Ben & Jerry's 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 Let's Grow Kids 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 41%
  • Rutland Community Programsinc — 94% of income from government
  • Northeast Kingdom Learning Services Inc — 86% of income from government
  • Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
  • Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
  • Arlington Area Childcare Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Myers Prouty Children's Campuses Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Umbrella of St Johnsbury Inc — 76% of income from government
  • Village Early Learning Center — 68% of income from government
  • Garland School Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Orange County Parent Child Center Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Stepping Stones Preschool — 60% of income from government
  • Mentor Vermont Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Early Learning Center Inc — 55% of income from government
  • Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Springfield Area Parent Child Center — 53% of income from government
  • Robins Nest Children's Center — 51% of income from government
  • Rutland County Parent Child Center Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Sunrise Family Resource Center Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Child Care Resource — 43% of income from government
  • Beaver Brook Children's School Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Creative Preschool Inc — 42% of income from government
  • West River Montessori School — 41% of income from government
  • Craftsbury Saplings Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Northshire Day School — 39% of income from government
  • Magic Mountain Childrens Center Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Lamoille Family Center Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Green Mountain Economic Development Corp — 34% of income from government
  • Otter Creek Child Center Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Caring Community Preschool — 31% of income from government
  • Montessori School of Central Vt Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Vermont Achievement Center Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Nek Little Ones Corp — 30% of income from government
  • Neck of the Woods Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Ascension Childcare Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Toddlers Morning Out — 18% of income from government
  • Vermont Community Loan Fund — 14% of income from government
  • Treehouse Childrens School Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Orchard Valley Waldorf School Inc — 10% of income from government
  • North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Grammar School Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Vt-Hec Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Southwestern Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
16rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Let's Grow Kids Inc?

Find your warmest path to Let's Grow Kids Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 198 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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