· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BIKER HUB | $25,000 |
| ROSENWALD PARK CAMPAIGN | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN VERMONT ART CENTER | $25,000 |
| GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| VYCC | $20,000 |
| CENTURION | $15,000 |
| SOLOMON WRIGHT PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| ST JEROME INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| RVC FRIENDS OF MLK | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| FUND FOR N BENNINGTON | $2,000 |
| PARK-MCCULLOUGH HOUSE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VYVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC3× · 2019–2022 · $150k · revenue +85%
- BHBIKE HUB4× · 2022–2025 · $130k · revenue +41% · 28% of their budget
- NBNORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- TGTHE GRATEFUL BENNINGTON FUNDone grant, 2021 · $25k
- RPROSENWALD PARK CAMPAIGNgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +184%
- SFSVHC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The mission of vins is to motivate individuals and communities to care for the environment through education, research, and avian wildlife rehabilitation.
To provide research and education on issues of importance to the natural, human, and economic environments of vermont citizens.
Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…
The vermont center for ecostudies advances the conservation of wildlife across the americas through research, monitoring, and citizen engagement.
Provide nature-based education and mentoring to youth and adults in southern vermont and western massachusetts.
Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.
Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.
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…
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds BIKE HUB ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON WRIGHT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BUXTON SCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTURION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 ↗
- Who funds ROSENWALD PARK CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Shires Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds POWNAL PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NJTL OF BENNINGTON VT INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ASSETS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR NORTH BENNINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD PLAYERS & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIKES NOT BOMBS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization South Meadow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Meadow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shires Housing Inc: 100% of income from government
- Pownal Preschool Inc: 75% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc: 47% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc: 29% of income from government
- Solomon Wright Public Library: 14% of income from government
- Paran Recreations Inc: 12% of income from government
- Bike Hub: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd: 0% of income from government
- Pownal Rescue Squad: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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