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STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY
The organization has established a series of events and programs and stratton archives for the benefit of the public and, through grants, for various charitable causes enhancing opportunities, health and quality of life for children and their families.
$707k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants
2
Communities
$121k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Education$605kHealth$84kHuman Services$66kArts & Culture$38kPhilanthropy$20kOther$496k
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
2019
windhamwaybettermoving mtnssuccess movingmtns prgmshunger
2020
student success
2021
summer
2022
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2023
campsmoving mountainskidssummer
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $176k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$893k
Total assets
Largest grants
- BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY$121,173
- TACONIC & GREEN REGIONAL SD$55,000
- BIG BROS BIG SISTERS OF VT$30,000
- WEST RIVER MONTESSORI SCHOOL$19,200
- SHOES THAT FIT$17,160
- MANCHESTER ELEMENTARY MID SCH$15,000
- WINDHAM CENTRAL SUPERVISORY$12,000
- LONG TRAIL SCHOOL$11,500
- BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK$10,000
- MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF WINHALL$8,200
- SOUTHERN VT ARTS CENTER$8,000
- THE COLLABORATIVE$7,500
- NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL$7,500
- LELAND AND GRAY UNION HS$6,500
02The need
04
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 (FY20–23, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 12%. 74% 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.
86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 14 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
14
8
Total granted
$1.1M
$146k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+77%
+95%
Still filing today
50%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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
- WRWEST RIVER MONTESSORI SCHOOL2× · 2019–2023 · $58k · revenue +97%
- STSHOES THAT FIT3× · 2020–2023 · $49k · revenue +149%
- NDNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $42k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- NCNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $42k · revenue +95%
- FTFEED THE COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +167%
- WRWEST RIVER VALLEY THRIVESone grant, 2019 · $26k
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.
1
Mountain Village Charter School
Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and ph
Education
2
The Village School of North Bennington
Children are at the heart of all we do. We nurture a child's curiosity, ignite enthusiasm for exploring, develop tools for inquiry, for invention, for achievement. We welcome families into a community-wide collaboration to help our…
Education
3
Lake Champlain Waldorf School
Our mission is to create and support a Waldorf school system in the greater Burlington, Vermont, area and to assist in the education of the general public and professional community in the principles and practices of Waldorf education and…
Education
4
Housatonic Valley Waldorf School Association
Pre-school and elementary school education provider.
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5
Mountainland Head Start
Empowering young children and families along a path to their highest potential.
Education
6
Syringa Mountain School Inc
Public Education.
Education
7
Mountain Discovery School
Operation of a public charter school.
Education
8
The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc
A PreK childcare center and KG-Grade 8 school that values each students unique learning experience, fostering academic excellence, emotional intelligence, and social and environmental justice through five core concepts.
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9
Pioneer Valley Montessori Society Inc
Pioneer Valley Montessori School provides a responsive and nurturing environment rooted in Montessori practice. We inspire curiosity, compassion and kindness by encouraging independence, developing perseverance, and empowering the…
Education
10
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service
Daycare services
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11
Upper Valley Comm Health Services Inc
Medical, Dental, Behavioral Health and Pharmacy
Health
12
Cold Spring School Inc
Independent day school for children from preschool through grade six
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mountain School At Winhall Inc and the most unlike its peers is West River Montessori School. 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
15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$604,670Other$495,700Health$83,717Human Services$66,395Arts & Culture$38,020Philanthropy$20,000
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 BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WEST RIVER MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds LONG TRAIL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FEED THE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTH & LEARNING ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF WINHALL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VT ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COLLABORATIVE ↗
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 FoundationVT27.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- United Way of Windham County Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: WEST RIVER MONTESSORI SCHOOL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
high risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up +97% since.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 030273476 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 WEST RIVER MONTESSORI SCHOOL, 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 7 months of cash on hand.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% 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 Stratton Mountain & Valley Community?
Find your warmest path to Stratton Mountain & Valley Community 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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the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines