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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 FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$33k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$306kHuman Services$40k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $33,493, the rows itemized in this filing. The $441,437 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $407,944 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.
$33,493
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vermont Farmers Food Center$33,493
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 (FY21–22, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Poultney YAH Senior Center: $8k → 9%Poultney YAH Senior Center: $29k → 12%Castelton Community Seniors Inc: $8k → 12%Castleton Comm: $8k → 12%Brandon Senior Center: $8k → 12%Various Organ: $23k → 12%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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+1%
+24%

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.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BC
    Bennington County Meals Program
    2× · 2021–2022 · $131k · revenue +1%
  • VF
    VERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $73k · revenue -42%
  • CC
    CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $16k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • YA
    YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +29%
  • SV
    Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +52%
  • PS
    PARK STREET HEALTHSHARE INC RUTLAND COUNTY HEALTH PARTNERS
    one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +24%
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
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
Yale Senior Citizens Inc

Providing low-cost meals for the elderly in the surrounding area.

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3
Chittenden County Senior Citizens Alliance Inc

Center provides a supportive gathering place for community members over the age of 50 with free & donation based programs. These programs promote social, physical & emotional wellbeing

Community Improvement
4
Riverton Senior Citizens Center

To provide service for Riverton's seniors that enrich the participantslife, well being, daily activities and independence.

Human Services
5
South Royalton Senior Center

Provides meals and services to senior citizens of the comunity and surrounding towns

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6
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
7
Williston Council On Aging Inc

Provide congregate meals, home delivered meals, and outreach for the elderly. public transportation services including handicap.

—
8
Cascade Senior Citizens Inc

Provide meals to seniors 60+, exercise classes, health information, receive donations and do fundraisers.

Human Services
9
Sherman County Senior Center Inc

To offer a nutrition program for older persons.

—
10
Valley Community Center

To provide meals, health related services, social activities and other services to the local community with a focus on seniors.

Human Services
11
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
12
Butler County Council On Aging Inc

We prepare meals for senior citizens and provide a place for recreational activities and fellowship. meals are served in our building or are delivered to home-bound individuals.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc; the most unlike its peers is Come Alive Outside. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bennington County Meals Program: $130,635 · Food & NutritionBennington County Meals ProgramYOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC: $37,414 · Human ServicesYOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTE…Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc: $22,995 · Human ServicesSouthwestern Vermont Counci…CASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesCASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS…Brandon Senior Citizens Center Inc: $8,000 · Human ServicesBrandon Senior Citizens Cen…VERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER: $72,773 · EducationVERMONT FARMERS MARKET …Valley Services: $16,445 · OtherValley Ser…CITY OF RUTLAND: $8,000 · OtherCITY OF RU…BENNINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT: $8,000 · OtherBENNINGTON…PARK STREET HEALTHSHARE INC RUTLAND COUNTY HEALTH PARTNERS: $21,200 · HealthCOME ALIVE OUTSIDE: $5,001 · Recreation & Sports
Food & Nutrition$130,635Human Services$83,909Education$72,773Other$32,445Health$21,200Recreation & Sports$5,001

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBennington County Meals Program: $130,635 over 2y, 14% of budgetVERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER: $72,773 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetYOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CENTER INC: $37,414 over 1y, 24% of budgetSouthwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc: $22,995 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARK STREET HEALTHSHARE INC RUTLAND COUNTY HEALTH PARTNERS: $21,200 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCASTLETON COMMUNITY SENIORS INC: $15,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBrandon Senior Citizens Center Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOME ALIVE OUTSIDE: $5,001 over 1y, 1.1% 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…Rutland Hospital IncAmazonsmile Foundation
The Vermont Community FoundationVT21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Rutland Hospital Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc: 62% of income from government
  • Come Alive Outside: 27% of income from government
  • Park Street Healthshare Inc Rutland County Health Partners: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 11 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 $631k 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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