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Seventh Generation Foundation Inc

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.

$485k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.5MCommunity Improvement$396kCivil Rights$353kHealth$330kHuman Services$181kCrime & Legal$100kEducation$92kYouth Development$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
$30,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$796k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESPAC FOUNDATION$100,000
KULAIWI LAND TRUST$55,000
ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS$55,000
SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER$30,000
THE CEDAR FUND$30,000
THE CREATIVE HEART$30,000
MUTUAL AID NETWORK OF YPSILANTI$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
NATIVE YOUTH ALLIANCE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
OUN$25,000
ALNOBAIWI$25,000
ASMUYAO COMMUNITY SCHOOL$25,000
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, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $105 → 11%DEBBIE'S DREAM FOUNDATION: $100 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $95 → 14%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $250 → 8%FORESIGHT SKI GUIDES: $200 → 12%SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 10%SPRINGFIELD AREA PARENT CHILD CENTER: $3k → 9%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $1k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $14 → 14%MORRISTOWN AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM: $2k → 9%WEST BEE NURSERY SCHOOL: $3k → 11%TURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 9%ASCENSION CHILDCARE: $1k → 10%HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 9%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $6k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $6k → 10%THE JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $5k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $4k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $4k → 10%SPECTRUM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 10%THE HOWARD CENTER: $858 → 10%THE HOWARD CENTER: $250 → 10%THE JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $182 → 10%BURLINGTON BICYCLE PROJECT CORP: $174 → 10%AGE WELL: $102 → 10%AGE WELL: $50 → 10%MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 10%AGE WELL: $100 → 10%VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK: $100 → 10%VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK: $100 → 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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 67 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 66 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
165

Total granted

$2.0M
$834k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+41%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $460k 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 ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • SP
    Solutions Project Inc
    4× · 2018–2022 · $650k · revenue +177%
  • BC
    BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $290k · revenue +25%
  • CC
    COMING CLEAN INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $40k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • NDN COLLECTIVE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -74%
  • THE BAIL PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -85%
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue -70%
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
Vermont Public Co

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.

Arts & Culture
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center

Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.

Health
5
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
6
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
7
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
10
Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.

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11
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
12
Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

See schedule othe mission of the vermont council on world affairs is to promote awareness and understanding of the world and its people, places and cultures through education and engagement. the future of vermont depends upon the world…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Outride fka the Specialized Foundation. 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

180 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. 180 of the 249 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
177/180
Grantees still filing
135/180
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND: $260,000 · OtherVT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION …WESPAC FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · OtherWESPAC FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHUNDER VALLEY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $92,000 · OtherTHUNDER VALLEY DEVELOPMENT CORPCITY OF BURLINGTON - REIB: $80,000 · OtherCITY OF BURLINGTON - REIB37 DAYCARE CENTERS ACROSS VT: $46,450 · Other+126 more: $511,707 · Other+126 moreSolutions Project Inc: $650,000 · EnvironmentSolutions Project IncSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS: $55,000 · EnvironmentALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICSCOMING CLEAN INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentWOMEN'S VOICES FOR THE EARTH: $35,235 · Environment+12 more: $119,782 · Environment+12 moreNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLECT…KULAIWI LAND TRUST: $55,000 · Community ImprovementKULAIWI LAN…THUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHUNDER VAL…IOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $17,500 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $16,500 · Community Improvement+2 more: $1,628 · Community ImprovementBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $290,000 · HealthBREAST CANC…THE CREATIVE HEART: $30,000 · HealthTHE CREATIV…+14 more: $5,806 · HealthVERMONT COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $252,225 · Housing & ShelterVERMONT C…PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $22,500 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE UN…+2 more: $637 · Housing & ShelterTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $100,317 · Crime & LegalSACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $26,355 · Human ServicesLund Family Center Inc: $7,400 · Human ServicesJanet Munt Family Room: $5,182 · Human ServicesHUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILD CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTURTLE ISLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWEST BEE NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $3,150 · Human Services+16 more: $12,288 · Human Services
Other$1,190,157Environment$975,017Community Improvement$340,628Health$325,806Housing & Shelter$275,362Crime & Legal$100,317Human Services$94,375

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSolutions Project Inc: $650,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $290,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetVERMONT COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $252,225 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $100,317 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESPAC FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS: $55,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKULAIWI LAND TRUST: $55,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetTHUNDER VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMING CLEAN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN'S VOICES FOR THE EARTH: $35,235 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCLEAN AND HEALTHY NEW YORK: $31,200 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTHE MUTUAL AID NETWORK OF YPSILANTI: $30,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetSACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $26,355 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAlnobaiwi: $25,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEarth Guardians: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTOXIC-FREE FUTURE F/K/A WASHINGTON TOXICS COALITION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIOWA CITIZENS FOR COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT: $17,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $16,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLund Family Center Inc: $7,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $6,216 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room: $5,182 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILD CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetORCHARD VALLEY WALDORF SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPUFFER CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $4,920 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTARKSBORO COOP PRESCHOOL INC: $4,400 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL: $4,128 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilton Family Community Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPRING HILL SCHOOL INC: $1,967 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC: $1,842 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHINESBURG NURSERY SCHOOL: $1,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,583 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOrange County Parent Child Center Inc: $1,490 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $1,478 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpringfield Learning Garden Inc: $1,440 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $1,255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST RIVER MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $1,185 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,170 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHowardCenter Inc: $1,108 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION CHILDCARE INC: $1,049 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.

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 FoundationVT54.4× affinity33 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 · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Let's Grow Kids Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council · Oakland Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund

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 Seventh Generation Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seventh Generation Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Alnobaiwi: 100% of income from government
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Vermont Family Network Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Milton Family Community Center Inc: 65% of income from government
  • Orange County Parent Child Center Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Puffer Child Care Center Inc: 61% of income from government
  • Age Well Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Mentor Vermont Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Springfield Area Parent Child Center: 53% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Janet Munt Family Room: 44% of income from government
  • West River Montessori School: 41% of income from government
  • West Bee Nursery School Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Northshire Day School: 39% of income from government
  • The Family Place Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Lund Family Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Starksboro Coop Preschool Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Willowell Foundation Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Turtle Island Children's Center Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Ascension Childcare Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Spring Hill School Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc: 17% of income from government
  • The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis: 17% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Hinesburg Nursery School: 15% of income from government
  • Champlain Housing Trust: 15% of income from government
  • Vermont Community Loan Fund: 14% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont: 13% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Hunger Mountain Child Center Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Orchard Valley Waldorf School Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • HowardCenter Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lake Champlain Waldorf School: 1% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
  • Southwestern Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
  • Chill Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Stern Center for Language and Learning: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
10rely 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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How do I get to Seventh Generation Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Seventh Generation 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 249 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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