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Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Food & Nutrition$143kEnvironment$65kReligion$53kHuman Services$33kEducation$32kCommunity Improvement$26kPhilanthropy$25kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k61 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stone Soup Cafe$27,737
Quabbin Food Connector$27,737
Vermont Food Bank$6,000
Garden Path Elder Living$4,000
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital - Dev Off$3,000
Dummerston Congregational Church$3,000
Green Mountain Club$3,000
Northeast Wilderness Trust$3,000
Randolph Area Food Shelf$2,000
Chandler Center for the Arts$1,500
West Brookfield Village Trust$1,500
Vermont Community Foundation$1,500
Childrens Literacy Foundation$1,000
United Way Of Windham County$1,000
Friends of Brooks Memorial Library$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Central Vermont Council on Aging: $500 → 9%American Red Cross: $100 → 10%Central Vermont Council on Aging: $500 → 9%Central Vermont Council on Aging: $500 → 9%Garden Path Elder Living: $16k → 11%Garden Path Elder Living: $4k → 11%Garden Path Elder Living: $4k → 11%Garden Path Elder Living: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NH
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
NC
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$243k · 60 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
13

Total granted

$243k
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+15%

Still filing today

65%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • BM
    Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
    6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +16%
  • NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +59%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • VM
    VILLAGE MICRO FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue +195%
  • DB
    Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network
    one grant, 2024 · $26k · revenue 0%
  • DB
    Detroit Black Community Food Security Ne
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Vermont Riverlands Llc

To protect and enhance the natural resources of vermont in order to promote the well-being of present and future generations of vermonters and visitors; preserve and aid in the preservation of open land along rivers and lakes; protect and…

Environment
3
Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.

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4
Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility Research & Edu Fdn

To provide research and education on issues of importance to the natural, human, and economic environments of vermont citizens.

Education
5
Vermont Wilderness School

Provide nature-based education and mentoring to youth and adults in southern vermont and western massachusetts.

Environment
6
Vermont Woodlands Association

Vermont woodlands association's (vwa) mission is to educate and advocate for the practices of productive stewardship, use, and enjoyment of vermont's woodlands. we achieve this mission by delivering educational programs and technical…

Environment
7
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
8
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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9
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…

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10
Alliance for a Better Vermont

Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.

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11
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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12
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Village Micro Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr21%13%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr11%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%24%5–10yr21%23%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr11%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/64
the rest of the field
14%
4,704/34,548

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.

04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 79 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/56
Grantees still filing
38/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Dummerston Congregational Church — $50,775 · OtherDummerston Congregational ChurchDetroit Black Community Food Security Ne — $24,675 · OtherDetroit Black Community Food Security NeNorth Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec — $24,675 · OtherNorth Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land…Bradley House — $9,300 · OtherTHE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS — $7,000 · OtherBrattleboro Memorial Hospital — $12,300 · OtherBrattleboro Memorial Hospital+37 more — $61,980 · Other+37 moreStone Soup Cafe Inc — $27,737 · Food & NutritionStone Soup Cafe IncQUABBIN FOOD CONNECTOR — $27,737 · Food & NutritionQUABBIN FOOD CONNECTORDetroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network — $25,934 · Food & NutritionDetroit Black Community …VERMONT FOODBANK — $12,050 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANKRANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF — $3,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $2,500 · Food & NutritionVILLAGE MICRO FUND — $25,934 · EducationVILLAGE MICRO F…Black Sustainability Inc — $15,375 · EducationBlack Sustainab…Wellesley College — $6,000 · EducationWellesley Colle…CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $3,500 · EducationCORPORATION OF …CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION — $3,500 · EducationCHILDREN'S LITE…WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT — $3,000 · EducationKENT PLACE SCHOOL — $2,800 · Education+1 more — $1,900 · EducationGARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING INC — $26,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL VERMONT COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $1,500 · Human Services+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC — $6,200 · PhilanthropyWATERMAN FUND INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyWHYHUNGER INC — $15,375 · Arts & CultureCHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $4,250 · Arts & CultureBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC — $2,600 · Arts & CultureBROOKFIELD COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP — $1,600 · Arts & CultureVERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,050 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $8,500 · EnvironmentWINDMILL HILL PINNACLE ASSOCIATION — $3,700 · EnvironmentGREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INCORPORATED — $2,400 · EnvironmentVERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $1,750 · EnvironmentVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC — $1,450 · EnvironmentNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC — $1,450 · EnvironmentVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $1,200 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INC — $1,000 · Environment+1 more — $500 · Environment
Other$190,705Food & Nutrition$99,458Education$62,009Human Services$28,100Philanthropy$26,200Arts & Culture$25,375Environment$23,950

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetQUABBIN FOOD CONNECTOR — $27,737 over 1y, 23% of budgetGARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING INC — $26,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDetroit Black Community Food Sovereignty Network — $25,934 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNorth Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec — $24,675 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Sustainability Inc — $15,375 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $15,375 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrattleboro Memorial Hospital — $12,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $12,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION — $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB INC DEBONIS — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC — $6,200 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWellesley College — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC — $4,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $4,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWINDMILL HILL PINNACLE ASSOCIATION — $3,700 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc — $3,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF — $3,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGreen Mountain Camp Inc — $3,400 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRETREAT FARM LTD — $3,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERACTION INC — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKENT PLACE SCHOOL — $2,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC — $2,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBRATTLEBORO SENIOR MEALS INC — $2,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $2,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY INCORPORATED — $2,400 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE INC — $2,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING FOR SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT INC — $2,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC — $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN HUGGS RESCUE INC — $1,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC — $1,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC — $1,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWINDHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $1,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLANDMARK COLLEGE INC — $1,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INC — $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC CO — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Vermont Community…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The Windham Foundatio…Thomas Thompson TrustNational Life Group C…George W Mergens Foun…Lintilhac Foundation …Agnes M Lindsay TrustPeriwinkle Foundation…Oakland Foundation IncNew Hampshire Charita…Price Chopper's Golub…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT60.7× affinity31 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 · The Windham Foundation Inc · Thomas Thompson Trust · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Periwinkle Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation

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 Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Central Vermont Council On Aging Inc — 74% of income from government
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
  • Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
  • Aids Project of Southern Vermont — 55% of income from government
  • Vermont Historical Society — 51% of income from government
  • Green Mountain Conservancy Incorporated — 49% of income from government
  • Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association — 47% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
  • United Way of Windham County Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Stone Soup Cafe Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
  • The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • Friends of the Winooski River Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
  • North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Chandler Center for the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc — 1% of income from government
  • Landmark College Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Memorial Hospital — 1% of income from government
  • Garden Path Elder Living Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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