Vermont · Public charity
Shelburne Farms
The mission of SHELBURNE FARMS is to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future.
- $97k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $90k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $90M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Shelburne Farms funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $90k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $87k | 80% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $38k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $26k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy Communities of the Capital Area | $74,722 | 3 | 2% |
| No More Empty Pots | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Food Trust | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc | $20,275 | 2 | 0% |
| Champlain Valley School District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Britain Roots Inc | $17,700 | 1 | 6% |
| Ecotrust | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mollen Foundation for Childhood Obesity | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Zoo | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Early Care and Education Association | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy Communities of the Capital Area | $74,722 | 3 | 2% |
| No More Empty Pots | $25,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Food Trust | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc | $20,275 | 2 | 0% |
| Champlain Valley School District | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Britain Roots Inc | $17,700 | 1 | 6% |
| Ecotrust | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mollen Foundation for Childhood Obesity | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Zoo | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Early Care and Education Association | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Fund for Public Health in New York Inc | $5,999 | 1 | 0% |
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Shelburne Farms
- How much does Shelburne Farms give?
- Shelburne Farms reported 7 itemized grants totaling $89,997, out of $96,997 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Shelburne Farms fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (83%), Education (13%), Health (4%).
- Who are Shelburne Farms's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Healthy Communities of the Capital Area ($75k), No More Empty Pots ($25k), The Food Trust ($22k).
- Does Shelburne Farms fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shelburne Farms?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Shelburne Farms based?
- Shelburne Farms is based in VT.
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