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Snyder Watchorn Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$501kRecreation & Sports$252kReligion$49kEducation$28kHuman Services$21kArts & Culture$17kEnvironment$16kInternational$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$287k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA$3,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID$3,500
TROMBONE SHORTY FOUNDATION$2,500
MANNA FOODBANK$1,300
BALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY$1,000
URBAN MINISTRIES$1,000
UNC ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION (LIO$1,000
NC ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$1,000
UNC ARTS & SCIENCES BAND GIFT FUND$1,000
NC BOTANICAL GARDENS$1,000
DUKE UNIV CH AMY GEISSINGER FUND$1,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL$500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL$500
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 (FY19–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATIO: $1k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATIO: $500 → 15%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 9%THOMPSON SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 9%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
NY
MA
KY
WV
VA
AR
NC
SC
DC
LA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$432k · 51 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
20

Total granted

$432k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+40%

Still filing today

31%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • AS
    ADIRONDACK SKI TOURING COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $251k · revenue +563% · 66% of their budget
  • BALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +60%
  • UV
    UPPER VALLEY HAVEN
    2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF KENTUCKIAN
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • UP
    UNITING PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND CHIL
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • BJ
    BRODY JEWISH CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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 Land Trust Inc

Rooted in vermont since 1977, the vermont land trust unites land and lives for the enduring benefit of people and the place we share. we help people protect, care for, and connect to land. this includes the farms, forests, natural areas,…

Environment
2
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
3
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Inc

To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.

Food & Nutrition
4
Adirondack Mountain Club Inc

Adk is the only non-profit organization in new york state dedicated to the conservation, preservation, and responsible recreational use of the new york state forest preserve and other parks, wild lands, and waters vital to our members and…

Environment
5
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
6
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
7
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc

We nurture the economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity of people, businesses, organizations and communities in vermont for the benefit and well-being of all who live here.

Employment
8
Windsor Hospital Corporation

Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.

Health
9
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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10
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust

The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…

Food & Nutrition
11
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation

Northeast wilderness trust is a regional land trust working to preserve and restore forever-wild landscapes for nature and people in new york, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts and connecticut.

Environment
12
Willing Hands Enterprises Inc

Willing hands delivers fresh food to more than 80 social service organizations throughout the upper valley of new hampshire and vermont that serve as food access points to our community. fresh food is recovered from local farms, grocery…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Maquam Bay of Missisquoi Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 73 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+2 more: $1,700 · PhilanthropyADIRONDACK SKI TOURING COUNCIL INC: $251,000 · Youth DevelopmentADIRONDACK SKI TOURING COUNCI…+2 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentIndividual grant recipient: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA: $17,500 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UN…JOURNEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH: $16,000 · OtherJOURNEY CHRISTIAN CH…DUKE DIVINITY ANNUAL FUND: $11,000 · OtherDUKE DIVINITY ANNUAL…CONGREGATION AT DUKE UNIVERSITY CHA: $6,000 · Other+53 more: $95,700 · Other+53 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,500 · InternationalBALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $1,250 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 · AnimalsLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,500 · AnimalsMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $3,300 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANK: $1,000 · Food & NutritionMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $750 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$501,700Youth Development$252,000Other$173,200International$10,500Environment$9,750Animals$5,500Food & Nutrition$5,050

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 budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetADIRONDACK SKI TOURING COUNCIL INC: $251,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunities In Partnership: $3,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUrban Ministries of Durham Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetADIRONDACK LAND TRUST INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED METHODIST RETIREMENT HOMES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoot Social Justice Center Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF PLATTSBURGH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodstock Recreation Center Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGE THE WORLD KIDS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ADIRONDACK SKI TOURING COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds BALD HEAD ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADIRONDACK COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Communities In Partnership ↗
  • Who funds WOODSTOCK AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ↗
  • Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ↗
  • Who funds LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE FOUNDATION ↗

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…Triangle Community Fo…ImpactassetsincGe Aerospace Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
The Vermont Community FoundationVT20.9× affinity8 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 · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Snyder Watchorn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Snyder Watchorn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Maquam Bay of Missisquoi Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Root Social Justice Center Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Migrant Justice Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 73 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home