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Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$144k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.4MPhilanthropy$1.4MHealth$1.1MYouth Development$314kHuman Services$267kHousing & Shelter$236kFood & Nutrition$207kCommunity Improvement$59kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE$10,000
SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
VERMONT STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT$2,500
SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE$1,500
BOCA RATON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
ST BENEDICT'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
ST BENEDICT'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES$1,000
HOLY CROSS CEMETARY ASSOCIATION$500
SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE$500
SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE$360
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Open Door Mission: $10k → 12%READING-WEST WINDSOR AGING IN PLACE: $3k → 9%Special Needs Support Center: $5k → 10%Castleton Community Seniors: $3k → 12%Tri-Valley Transit: $10k → 9%Capstone Community Action: $15k → 9%Capstone Community Action: $10k → 9%Barre Area Senior Center: $10k → 9%Tri-Valley Transit: $5k → 9%AGE WELL: $20k → 10%Special Needs Support Center: $5k → 9%King Street Center: $12k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%King Street Center: $10k → 10%King Street Center: $10k → 10%Spectrum Youth & Family Services: $8k → 10%Pathways Vermont: $5k → 10%Joint Urban Ministry Project: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 10%Age Well: $10k → 10%Living Well Group: $10k → 10%Living Well Group: $3k → 10%Vermont Family Network: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
KY
MD
AZ
KS
DC
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 55 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
95

Total granted

$6.4M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+33%

Still filing today

76%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4.0M · revenue +35%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $770k · revenue +89%
  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc
    4× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • VF
    Vermont Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $1.4M
  • TP
    TURNING POINT CENTER OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +39%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
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
Groundworks Collaborative Inc

Groundworks collaborative, inc. provides emergency shelter, housing assistance & a food shelf for homeless persons.

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3
Bennington County Meals Program

Provide quality, nutritious and creative meals to individuals age sixty years and older; as well as, disabled residents of Bennington County, Vermont. This is accomplished through a community meal program and home deliveries to those…

Food & Nutrition
4
Valley Cares Inc

Create and provide a continuum of quality affordable housing and eldercare services for the residents of the west river valley and beyond, in cooperation with the community organizations and agencies that serve them.

Housing & Shelter
5
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

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

Community Improvement
6
The Homestead Inc
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7
Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc

To enable people to cope with, and reduce the hardships of poverty; create sustainable self-sufficiency; and reduce the causes and move toward the elimination of poverty.

Human Services
8
Vermont Psychological Services Former Behavior Therapy & Psychotherapy

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

Health
9
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
10
Visiting Nurse & Community Health Inc

We are committed to providing the highest quality, compassionate home care to the patients entrusted to us. We are also steadfast in our pledge to be a responsive and innovative advocate for the communities we serve, focusing on health…

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11
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
12
Vermont Association of Senior Centers and Meal Providers

To cultivate a unified voice and dynamic network of senior centers, meal providers, and professionals committed to excellence and responsive to the needs of the states growing older population.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kenya Self-Help Project. 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

91 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. 91 of the 155 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)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/91
Grantees still filing
69/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,999,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUN…SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $171,360 · Education+7 more: $91,730 · EducationVermont Foundation: $1,350,000 · OtherVermont FoundationRICE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: $92,000 · OtherUnited Way of Lamoille County Inc: $90,000 · Other+100 more: $904,922 · Other+100 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $770,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERS…+9 more: $70,100 · Health+9 moreBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc: $60,500 · Youth Development20 Armory Lane Community After- School Group Incorporated: $58,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Rutland County: $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentOur Community Cares Camp Inc: $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentKING STREET CENTER INC: $47,000 · Human ServicesAGE WELL INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $19,000 · Human ServicesSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesTRI-VALLEY TRANSIT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesLIVING WELL GROUP INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY: $10,000 · Human ServicesBARRE AREA SENIOR CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human Services+5 more: $16,500 · Human ServicesBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $160,000 · Community ImprovementCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $68,000 · Housing & ShelterCOVER HOME REPAIR INC: $37,500 · Housing & ShelterMIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION: $27,500 · Housing & ShelterThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $22,500 · Housing & ShelterORANGE EAST SENIOR CENTER INC: $8,000 · Housing & ShelterBENNINGTON COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $7,500 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $9,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$4,262,090Other$2,436,922Health$840,100Youth Development$245,500Human Services$213,000Community Improvement$186,000Housing & Shelter$180,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,999,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $770,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE: $171,360 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $160,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Lamoille County Inc: $90,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $68,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc: $60,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budget20 Armory Lane Community After- School Group Incorporated: $58,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $50,730 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $48,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Rutland County: $48,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetMARTHAS KITCHEN: $38,500 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetMEALS & WHEELS OF GREATER SPRINGFIELD INC: $38,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCOVER HOME REPAIR INC: $37,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetAGE WELL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC: $29,500 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetMIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION: $27,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetINTERACTION INC: $27,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOur Community Cares Camp Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT CENTER OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF VETERANS: $25,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetST ANNE'S SCHOOL OF ANNAPOLIS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetALDRICH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetVERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING FOR SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDismas of Vermont Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-VALLEY TRANSIT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING WELL GROUP INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBARRE AREA SENIOR CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPUSES FOUNDATIONINC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN ACTION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetGifford Health Care Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE EAST SENIOR CENTER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIN: $7,500 over 1y, 5.8% 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.

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…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Agnes M Lindsay TrustNational Life Group C…George W Mergens Foun…Community Bank Na Fou…Hoehl Family Foundati…Fanny Allen Corporati…Price Chopper's Golub…The Windham Foundatio…United Way of Northwe…Oakland Foundation Inc
The Vermont Community FoundationVT100.5× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Hoehl Family Foundation · Fanny Allen Corporation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Oakland 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 Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Capstone Community Action Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Vermont Foundation of Recovery Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Tri-Valley Transit Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Vermont Family Network Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Lamoille Housing Partnership Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Rutland County: 72% of income from government
  • Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc: 71% of income from government
  • Tutorial Center Inc: 71% of income from government
  • Interaction Inc: 70% of income from government
  • North Central Vermont Recovery Center Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Pathways Vermont Inc: 65% of income from government
  • Good Samaritan Haven Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Turning Point Center of Addison County: 62% of income from government
  • Age Well Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Aware Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc: 47% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Maquam Bay of Missisquoi Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Dismas of Vermont Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Salvation Farms Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Fairfield Community Center Associn: 14% of income from government
  • United Way of Lamoille County Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Gifford Health Care Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Connections Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Cover Home Repair Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Aldrich Public Library: 2% of income from government
  • Living Well Group Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Washington County Mental Health Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
  • Vermont Recovery Network Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Saint Michael's College: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
17rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 155 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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