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Reid Lillian Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Reid Lillian Charitable Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$146k
Granted FY2026still arriving
10
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2026.

Health$192kAnimals$128kFood & Nutrition$128kEducation$64kPublic Safety & Disaster$64kPublic Benefit$64k
02FY2026 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$14,580
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VNA & HOSPICE OF THE SOUTHWEST$14,580
DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK HEALTH SYS$14,580
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT$14,580
BENNINGTON COUNTY HUMAN SOCIETY$14,580
BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM$14,580
ARLINGTON FOOD SHELF INC$14,580
MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC$14,580
BENNINGTON COUNTY COALITION FOR$14,580
THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE$14,580
SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE$14,580
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $17k → 10%BENNINGTON COUNTY HUMAN SOCIETY: $17k → 11%VNA & HOSPICE OF THE SOUTHWEST: $17k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $16k → 10%BENNINGTON COUNTY HUMAN SOCIETY: $16k → 11%VNA & HOSPICE OF THE SOUTHWEST: $16k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $16k → 10%BENNINGTON COUNTY HUMAN SOCIETY: $16k → 11%VNA & HOSPICE OF THE SOUTHWEST: $16k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $15k → 10%BENNINGTON COUNTY HUMAN SOCIETY: $15k → 11%VNA & HOSPICE OF THE SOUTHWEST: $15k → 12%MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $17k → 11%MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $16k → 11%MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $16k → 11%MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $15k → 11%THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE: $17k → 11%THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE: $16k → 11%THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE: $16k → 11%THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE: $15k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF: $17k → 11%BENNINGTON COUNTY COALITION FOR: $17k → 11%ARLINGTON FOOD SHELF INC: $17k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE: $17k → 11%BENNINGTON COUNTY COALITION FOR: $16k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF: $16k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE: $16k → 11%ARLINGTON FOOD SHELF INC: $16k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE: $16k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF: $16k → 11%BENNINGTON COUNTY COALITION FOR: $16k → 11%ARLINGTON FOOD SHELF INC: $16k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE: $15k → 11%BENNINGTON COUNTY MEALS PROGRAM: $15k → 11%ARLINGTON FOOD SHELF INC: $15k → 11%BENNINGTON COUNTY COALITION FOR: $15k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$625k · 10 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$625k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+88%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25’26
HealthAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BC
    Bennington County Humane Society Inc
    4× · 2023–2026 · $64k · revenue +127%
  • MR
    MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC DBA NORTHSHIRE RESCUE SQUAD
    4× · 2023–2026 · $64k · revenue +27%
  • VH
    VNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region Inc
    4× · 2023–2026 · $64k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BC
    Bennington County Meals Programgraduated
    one grant, 2026 · $15k · revenue +88%
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
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARLINGTON FOOD SHELF INC: $63,960 · OtherARLINGTON FOOD SHELF INCUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $63,960 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTBENNINGTON COUNTY COALITION FOR: $63,960 · OtherBENNINGTON COUNTY COALITION FORVNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region Inc: $63,960 · OtherVNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region IncMEALS ON WHEELS OF: $49,380 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OFDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $63,960 · HealthDartmouth-Hitchcock HealthMANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC DBA NORTHSHIRE RESCUE SQUAD: $63,960 · HealthMANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC DBA NO…SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION: $63,960 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE C…The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc: $63,960 · AnimalsThe Dorset Equine Resc…Bennington County Humane Society Inc: $63,960 · AnimalsBennington County Huma…Bennington County Meals Program: $14,580 · Food & Nutrition
Other$305,220Health$191,880Animals$127,920Food & Nutrition$14,580

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $63,960 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Dorset Equine Rescue Inc: $63,960 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBennington County Humane Society Inc: $63,960 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetMANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC DBA NORTHSHIRE RESCUE SQUAD: $63,960 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetVNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region Inc: $63,960 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION: $63,960 over 4y, 0.3% 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 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ↗
  • Who funds The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bennington County Humane Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds MANCHESTER RESCUE SQUAD INC DBA NORTHSHIRE RESCUE SQUAD ↗
  • Who funds VNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Bennington County Meals Program ↗

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…The Orvis Charitable …Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Vermont Community FoundationVT17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Orvis Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Reid Lillian Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reid Lillian Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Vna & Hospice of the Southwest Region Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 11 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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