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Shelburne Farms

The mission of SHELBURNE FARMS is to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future.

$97k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$125kEducation$20kHealth$6k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $89,997, the rows itemized in this filing. The $96,997 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEALTHY COMMUNITIES$25,000
OREGON FARM TO SCHOOL NETWORK$15,000
MOLLEN FOUNDATION FOR CHILDHOOD OBE$15,000
NO MORE EMPTY POTS$10,000
EARLY CARE & EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$10,000
MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE$9,722
FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC$5,275
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOLLEN FOUNDATION FOR CHILDHOOD OBE: $15k → 11%NO MORE EMPTY POTS: $15k → 12%MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: $10k → 11%MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE: $15k → 14%THE FOOD TRUST: $22k → 22%FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NY: $6k → 17%OREGON FARM TO SCHOOL NETWORK: $15k → 12%FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $15k → 14%CHAMPLAIN VALLEY UNION HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 10%EARLY CARE & EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: $25k → 12%NO MORE EMPTY POTS: $10k → 12%FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $5k → 14%HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: $20k → 12%HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: $20k → 12%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

ME
VT
MN
NY
PA
CT
RI
NE
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$120k · 3 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$120k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Food & NutritionEducationInternationalHealthOther
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

  • HC
    Healthy Communities of the Capital Area
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +13%
  • NM
    NO MORE EMPTY POTS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FOOD TRUST
    one grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue 0%
  • CV
    CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • NB
    NEW BRITAIN ROOTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +48%
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
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
2
Nw Ct Food Hub Inc

Nw ct food hub, inc. is set up to relieve food insecurity, advance public health and nutrition education, and strengthen the viability of small, local, and start-up farms in connecticut.

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3
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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4
National Assn of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation

The nasda foundation is the only educational and research organization that directly serves the nation's state departments of agriculture. we are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. our mission is to enhance american food and agricultural…

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5
Sustainable Growers
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6
Freshfarm Markets

Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…

Food & Nutrition
7
Partnership for a Healthier America Inc

Advancing equitable access to nutritious food for all in America to lead healthy lives.

Youth Development
8
Coastal Foodshed

A public health initiative working to make healthy local foods more available, more accessible, and more familiar by connecting local growers with local consumers as well as providing education around local food, nutrition, and…

Food & Nutrition
9
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc

NOFA-NJ is an Association of consumers, farmers and gardeners, creating a regionally based organic agricultural system which is economically viable. The corporation's goals are the following:- Increase the number of certified organic farms…

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10
Foodwise Community

Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.

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11
Fair Food Network Inc

Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.

Food & Nutrition
12
Capital Roots Inc

Capital roots, inc. is a not for profit organization that nourishes healthy communities by providing access to fresh food and green spaces for all. it is our beleif that organic gardening and urban revitilization activites promote self…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Fresh Rhode Island Inc; the most unlike its peers is Early Care and Education Association. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NO MORE EMPTY POTS: $25,000 · Food & NutritionNO MORE EMPTY POTSTHE FOOD TRUST: $22,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD TRUSTFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $20,275 · Food & NutritionFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INCNEW BRITAIN ROOTS INC: $17,700 · Food & NutritionNEW BRITAIN ROOTS INCHealthy Communities of the Capital Area: $74,722 · InternationalHealthy Communities of the Capital …CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20,000 · OtherCHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCHOOL…ECOTRUST: $15,000 · OtherECOTRUSTMINNESOTA ZOO: $15,000 · OtherMINNESOTA ZOOMOLLEN FOUNDATION FOR CHILDHOOD OBESITY: $15,000 · EducationMOLLEN FOUN…Early Care and Education Association: $10,000 · EducationEarly Care …FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC: $5,999 · Health
Food & Nutrition$84,975International$74,722Other$50,000Education$25,000Health$5,999

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 budgetHealthy Communities of the Capital Area: $74,722 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNO MORE EMPTY POTS: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FOOD TRUST: $22,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $20,275 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW BRITAIN ROOTS INC: $17,700 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetEarly Care and Education Association: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC: $5,999 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Shelburne Farms funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shelburne Farms. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • New Britain Roots Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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