Vermont · Private foundation
South Meadow Foundation
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.
- $169k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations South Meadow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 12 | $164k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $165k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $147k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $173k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $170k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $187k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $184k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germantown Friends School | $160,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Bike Hub | $130,000 | 4 | 28% |
| Solomon Wright Public Library | $97,000 | 5 | 13% |
| Buxton Schoolinc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northern Berkshire Community Coalition Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Centurion Ministries Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617 | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rosenwald Park Campaign | $25,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Shires Housing Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($326k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
South Meadow Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Chilmark Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Whipstock Hill Preservation Society Inc · Alcyon Foundation · Barr Charitable Trust · George W Mergens Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Cleveland H Dodge Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About South Meadow Foundation
- How much does South Meadow Foundation give?
- South Meadow Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $169,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does South Meadow Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Environment (13%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are South Meadow Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Germantown Friends School ($160k), Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc ($150k), Bike Hub ($130k).
- Does South Meadow Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does South Meadow Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as South Meadow Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chilmark Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
- Where is South Meadow Foundation based?
- South Meadow Foundation is based in VT.
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