· Private foundation
Schatz Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVATORY | $5,000 |
| SHELBURNE MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| SHELBORNE FARMS | $2,500 |
| FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMANCE ARTS | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE | $2,000 |
| VERGENNES PARTNERSHIP INC | $1,500 |
| VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO | $1,200 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $1,008 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $1,000 |
| ADDISON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| US COMMITTEE REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS - VERMONT | $1,000 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
50 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SMSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +261%
SHELBURNE FARMS8× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +257%- BUBelmont University6× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- VVPRone grant, 2017 · $5k
- UUSNone grant, 2017 · $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.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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.
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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
43 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. 43 of the 81 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 Vermont Public Radio ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BELCOURT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds FRIST ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADDISON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds VERGENNES PARTNERSHIP 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 · Ibm International Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Shayne Foundation · The Joel C & Bernice W Gordon Family Foundation · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Msb Cockayne Fund 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 Schatz Family Foundation 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.
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vergennes Partnership Inc — 37% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Town Hall Theater Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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.