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Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc

Sevca's mission is to partner with individuals and communities to alleviate the hardships of poverty, provide opportunities to grow and thrive, and eliminiate causes of poverty in southeastern vermont.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$204k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,911
Largest grant, FY2024
$67,183
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$4.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$204k0%
FY202311$8.2M18%
FY202210$17M0%
FY202114$19M43%
FY20208$1.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$45MHealth$240k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Localvore Inc$13,889,7415n/a
The Skinny Pancake Inc$11,667,7264n/a
Vermont Farmers Market Education Center$4,656,649585%
Downtown Brattleboro Alliance Inc$4,508,512491%
Springfield Family Center Inc$3,193,780585%
Vital Communities Inc$2,784,899353%
Vermont Farm-To-School Inc$1,122,919546%
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc$1,022,450415%
Mountain Communities Supporting Education Inc$1,000,041328%
35c LLC$523,2092n/a
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All grantees of Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Localvore Inc$13,889,7415n/a
The Skinny Pancake Inc$11,667,7264n/a
Vermont Farmers Market Education Center$4,656,649585%
Downtown Brattleboro Alliance Inc$4,508,512491%
Springfield Family Center Inc$3,193,780585%
Vital Communities Inc$2,784,899353%
Vermont Farm-To-School Inc$1,122,919546%
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc$1,022,450415%
Mountain Communities Supporting Education Inc$1,000,041328%
35c LLC$523,2092n/a
Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc$452,85715%
Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc$239,66521%
Wilmington Works Inc$218,570262%
Capstone Community Action Inc$177,09621%
Giving Fridge$23,2272n/a
Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc$1,61110%

Where it is load-bearing

Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVermont Farmers Market Education Center: $4,656,649 over 5y, 85% of budgetDowntown Brattleboro Alliance Inc: $4,508,512 over 4y, 91% of budgetSpringfield Family Center Inc: $3,193,780 over 5y, 85% of budgetVital Communities Inc: $2,784,899 over 3y, 53% of budgetVermont Farm-To-School Inc: $1,122,919 over 5y, 46% of budgetCenter for an Agricultural Economy Inc: $1,022,450 over 4y, 15% of budgetMountain Communities Supporting Education Inc: $1,000,041 over 3y, 28% of budgetNortheast Kingdom Community Action Inc: $452,857 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAddison County Home Health Hospice Inc: $239,665 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWilmington Works Inc: $218,570 over 2y, 62% of budgetCapstone Community Action Inc: $177,096 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAssociation of Africans Living in Vermont Inc: $1,611 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 FoundationVT29.1× affinity12 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 · High Meadows Fund Inc · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Vermont Foodbank · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc

How much does Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc give?
Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $203,654, out of $1,001,938 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (99%), Health (1%).
Who are Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Localvore Inc ($14M), The Skinny Pancake Inc ($12M), Vermont Farmers Market Education Center ($4.7M).
Does Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, The Windham Foundation Inc.
Where is Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc based?
Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc is based in VT.

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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $660k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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