· Public charity
Stern Center for Language and Learning
The STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING is a nonprofit educational center dedicated to helping children and adults reach their full potential through high-quality direct services and professional learning.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $54,245 |
| CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $27,551 |
| ALBANY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $6,880 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BPBURLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS8× · 2018–2025 · $312k
- VDVERMONT DAIRY PROMO COUNCIL2× · 2018–2019 · $101k
- ANADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT4× · 2020–2023 · $69k
Funded once
- CCCALEDONIA CENTRAL SUPERVISORY UNIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- ACADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $19k
- EWESSEX WESTFORD SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $13k
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.
2 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. 2 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Vermont Energy Investment Corporation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc · Let's Grow Kids Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stern Center for Language and Learning funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stern Center for Language and Learning. Bigger dots raise more.
- Capstone Community Action Inc: 82% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Waldorf School: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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