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Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc
The Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging exists to be a community force in creating and sustaining opportunities for elders and caregivers in our region to help assure that elders are able to maintain maximum independence and quality of life.
$441k
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
$33k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Food & Nutrition$131kHuman Services$84kEducation$73kHealth$21kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$32k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
seniorgrowoldofferingentertainmentinformationeducational
2022
mealsfree medical
2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 1 grant
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$33,493
Median grant
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States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Vermont Farmers Food Center$33,493
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$219k · 3 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
8
Total granted
$219k
$127k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+25%
+67%
Still filing today
100%
63%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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
- BCBennington County Meals Program2× · 2021–2022 · $131k · revenue +44%
- VFVermont Farmers Food Center3× · 2022–2024 · $73k · revenue +25%
- CCCastleton Comm2× · 2021–2022 · $16k · revenue -1%
Funded once
- PYPoultney YAH Senior Centergraduatedone grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +67%
- VOVarious Organgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +30%
- RCRutland Countygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +314%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Brattleboro Senior Meals Inc
The mission of brattleboro senior meals inc is to maintain the quality of life for the senior citizens in the community by providing high quality congregate and home-delivered meals to accommodate nutritional needs in an atmosphere that…
Food & Nutrition
2
Chittenden County Senior Citizens Alliance Inc
The Center provides a supportive gathering place for community members over the age of 50 with free donation based programs
Community Improvement
3
White River Council on Aging
White River Council on Aging invites older adults in the Upper Valley to age well through food, friendship, participation, and purpose.
Human Services
4
Yale Senior Citizens Inc
Providing low-cost meals for the elderly in the surrounding area.
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Vermont Association of Senior Centers and Meal Providers
To cultivate a unified voice and dynamic network of senior centers, meal providers, and professionals committed to excellence and responsive to the needs of the states growing older population.
Human Services
6
Valley Meals and More
To enhance the wellness of older adults by delivering daily meals, providing connection to the community, and recommending available resources for support services.
Food & Nutrition
7
Aroostook Area Agency on Aging Inc
To assist eldery citizens in northern Maine.
Human Services
8
Meals on Wheels of Lamoille County Inc
Meals on Wheels of Lamoille Countys mission is to improve health and enhance the quality of life for our community elders by providing nutrition meals and social interaction.
Community Improvement
9
Sherman County Senior Center Inc
To offer a nutrition program for older persons.
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10
Williston Council On Aging Inc
Provide congregate meals, home delivered meals, and outreach for the elderly. public transportation services including handicap.
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Barre Housing Services Inc
The galley's mission is to provide on-site and home delivered nutritional meals of the highest quality for seniors 60 and above, as well as other qualified individuals, with the objective of keeping these individuals in their home and out…
Housing & Shelter
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Belgrade Senior Center
The Mission of The Belgrade Senior Center is to promote friendship and provide nutritional, social, recreational, educational, health and fitness, and information services for individuals age 50 and older in the Belgrade and surrounding…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc and the most unlike its peers is Castleton Community Seniors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Food & Nutrition$130,635Human Services$83,909Education$72,773Other$32,445Health$21,200Recreation & Sports$5,001
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.
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.
The Vermont Community FoundationVT23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · United Way of Rutland County Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc — 62% of income from government
- Come Alive Outside — 27% of income from government
- Park Street Healthshare Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Poultney YAH Senior Center.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +67% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 030262328 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Poultney YAH Senior Center, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc?
Find your warmest path to Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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