· Public charity
Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc
To enable people to cope with, and reduce the hardships of poverty; create sustainable self-sufficiency; and reduce the causes and move toward the elimination of poverty.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $203,654 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,001,938 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $798,284 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC | $67,183 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN FARM TO SCHOOL INC | $61,932 |
| CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY | $23,423 |
| GIVING FRIDGE | $15,911 |
| CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION | $13,780 |
| VERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER INC | $11,425 |
| LOCALVORE INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VFVERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +25% · 85% of their budget
- DBDOWNTOWN BRATTLEBORO ALLIANCE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $4.5M · revenue +38% · 91% of their budget
- SFSPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +75% · 85% of their budget
Funded once
- NKNortheast Kingdom Community Action Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $453k · revenue +47%
- AOAssociation of Africans Living in Vermont Incone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
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…
Feed Every Need is fighting hunger and food insecurity in Vermont by providing prepared meals to partner organizations for distribution to htose in need.
Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.
To promote, manage, and oversee grazing outreach and education programs in Vermont.
BALE is a community resource center devoted to the creation and development of farm, food and local economy initiatives in the Upper White River Valley of Vermont.
The Addison County Chamber of Commerce mission is to enhance the economic vitality of Addison County.
The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.
Our mission is to strengthen families and communities by improving human relationships. We do this through the training of expert family therapists, advisors, leaders, and family members in Bowen Family Systems Theory.
State of Vermont designated downtown organization that supports economic vitality through community events and programming focused on inclusivity and belonging.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vital Communities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN BRATTLEBORO ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VITAL COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc ↗
- Who funds Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds WILMINGTON WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc ↗
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.
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
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 Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc 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.
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc — 82% of income from government
- Wilmington Works Inc — 15% of income from government
- Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc — 14% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Downtown Brattleboro Alliance Inc — 9% of income from government
- Vermont Farm-to-School Inc — 7% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc — 1% of income from government
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.