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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $203,654, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,001,938 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $798,284 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $129k
$15,911
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $163k → 9%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $14k → 9%NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION: $453k → 14%MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION: $400k → 11%MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION: $391k → 11%MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION: $209k → 11%ASSOCIATION OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$45M · 14 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
2

Total granted

$45M
$454k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+54%

Still filing today

71%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VF
    VERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +25% · 85% of their budget
  • DB
    DOWNTOWN BRATTLEBORO ALLIANCE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4.5M · revenue +38% · 91% of their budget
  • SF
    SPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +75% · 85% of their budget

Funded once

  • NK
    Northeast Kingdom Community Action Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $453k · revenue +54%
  • AO
    Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -20%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
2
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

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

Community Improvement
3
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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4
Feed Every Need

Feed Every Need is fighting hunger and food insecurity in Vermont by providing prepared meals to partner organizations for distribution to htose in need.

Food & Nutrition
5
Vermont Realtors Charitable Foundation Inc
Public Benefit
6
Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc

The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.

Community Improvement
7
Vermont Fresh Network Corporation

Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.

Community Improvement
8
Vermont Grass Farmers Association

To promote, manage, and oversee grazing outreach and education programs in Vermont.

Environment
9
Building a Local Economy

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.

Community Improvement
10
Vermont Community Garden Network Inc

Our mission is to cultivate well-being by helping people of all ages access resources to grow food, build confidence and connect with each other. Our goals are to increase access to gardening resources, develop outreach and education…

Environment
11
Vermont Center for Family Studies

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.

Human Services
12
Benson Village Trust Inc

Community development in Benson, Vermont.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vital Communities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOCALVORE INC: $13,889,741 · OtherLOCALVORE INCTHE SKINNY PANCAKE INC: $11,667,726 · OtherTHE SKINNY PANCAKE INCSPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC: $3,193,780 · OtherSPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC+2 more: $546,436 · OtherDOWNTOWN BRATTLEBORO ALLIANCE INC: $4,508,512 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN BRATTLEBO…VITAL COMMUNITIES INC: $2,784,899 · Community ImprovementVITAL COMMUNITIES …+1 more: $218,570 · Community ImprovementVERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER: $4,656,649 · EducationVERMONT FAR…MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION INC: $1,000,041 · Human ServicesNortheast Kingdom Community Action Inc: $452,857 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $177,096 · Human Services+1 more: $1,611 · Human ServicesVERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC: $1,122,919 · Food & NutritionCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $1,022,450 · EnvironmentAddison County Home Health Hospice Inc: $239,665 · Health
Other$29,297,683Community Improvement$7,511,981Education$4,656,649Human Services$1,631,605Food & Nutrition$1,122,919Environment$1,022,450Health$239,665

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…The Windham Foundatio…High Meadows Fund IncVermont Childrens Tru…Lintilhac Foundation …Vermont FoodbankNew Hampshire Charita…ImpactassetsincVanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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