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Stratton Mountain & Valley Community Benefit Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $314,373 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $719,599 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $405,226 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $202k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY | $87,939 |
| WINDHAM CENTRAL SUPERVISORY | $40,000 |
| BIG BROS BIG SISTERS OF VT | $32,500 |
| THE COLLABORATIVE | $30,000 |
| MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF WINHALL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,500 |
| SHOES THAT FIT | $12,750 |
| MAPLE STREET SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL OF ARTS | $10,753 |
| OPERATION WARM | $10,728 |
| SOUTHERN VT ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| GREATER NORTHSHIRE ACCESS TV | $9,860 |
| ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC | $8,500 |
| STRATTON MOUNTAIN RESORT | $6,343 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BBBURR & BURTON SEMINARY9× · 2017–2025 · $668k · revenue +84%
- STSHOES THAT FIT5× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue +206%
- MCMOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $63k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- NCNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $42k · revenue +33%
- WRWEST RIVER VALLEY THRIVESone grant, 2019 · $26k
- UWUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -57%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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 physical development.
A pre-k-8 independent school whose mission is to foster the skills, knowledge, personal attributes and work habits to enable children to thrive effectively, meaningfully, and joyfully in the world of today and tomorrow.
Rainbow Playschool is a nonprofit organization in the foothills of Mt. Tom in Woodstock, Vermont. We provide daycare and preschool services, emphasizing play and outdoor education, to children between the ages of 6 weeks and 5 years old.…
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…
The Bridge School is a state approved independent Elementary school located in Middlebury, VT. Small by design, Bridge School accepts up to 50 preK-6th grade students annually to ensure students build strong relationships with peers and…
To provide a lasting education that cultivates resilient and creative human beings who are capable of free thinking, confident action, and deep connections with others and the world.
Provide every child positive and accesible experiences that nurture development.
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 trust, sharing,…
Primary Education
Northeast kingdom preschool and childcare provides safe, affordable, high-quality early childhood education and care for the lyndonville, vt and surrounding communities. families are encouraged to be ambassadors of the program in support…
The purpose of stepping stones preschool is to promote the social, emotional, and intellectual development of children in the preschool and kindergarten age group. we provide a high-quality, play-based curriculum designed by integrating…
Daycare services
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.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 & BURTON SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds LONG TRAIL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHOES THAT FIT ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL AT WINHALL INC ↗
- Who funds Springfield Medical Care Systems Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST RIVER MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STRATTON MOUNTAIN & VALLEY COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Greater Northshire Access Television Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTH AND LEARNING LTD ↗
- Who funds MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE SCHOOL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Perkins Charitable Foundation · The Right Track Foundation Inc · Alcyon Foundation · Morse Hill Foundation Inc · The Orvis Charitable Foundation · Truettner Family Foundation · Let's Grow Kids Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organization Stratton Mountain & Valley Community Benefit Foundation 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.
- Center for Health and Learning Ltd — 100% of income from government
- Arlington Area Childcare Inc — 78% of income from government
- Smokey House Center — 54% of income from government
- West River Montessori School — 41% of income from government
- Northshire Day School — 39% of income from government
- United Way of Windham County Inc — 26% of income from government
- Springfield Medical Care Systems Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Little School — 13% of income from government
- Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
- Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
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 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.
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