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Brattleboro Development Credit Corp

BRATTLEBORO DEVELOPMENT CREDIT CORPoration (bdcc), is a private, nonprofit economic development organization that serves as a catalyst for industrial and commercial growth throughout southeastern vermont, including windham county and the towns of readsboro, (see sch.

$204k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What you fund
0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Community Improvement$1.2MScience & Tech$1.2MArts & Culture$649kEnvironment$239kHuman Services$224kEmployment$134kPublic Benefit$128kHousing & Shelter$128kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $147,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $203,724 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,124 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $106k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT$56,248
SEVEDS$50,000
ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$26,352
VERMONT EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP CENTER$15,000
02The need
03

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 (FY24–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $33k → 7%ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $26k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 6 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
223

Total granted

$1.3M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
0%

Still filing today

67%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementPublic BenefitHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalHealthOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2018–2020 · $560k
  • SV
    SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $475k · revenue +2% · 39% of their budget
  • SV
    SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $90k · revenue -5%

Funded once

  • CT
    CHROMA TECHNOLOGY CORP
    one grant, 2018 · $600k
  • T
    TRUEXCULLINS
    one grant, 2017 · $243k
  • GR
    GREEN RIVER
    one grant, 2024 · $150k

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
Northeast Kingdom Development Corporation

Fostering, encouraging and assisting the physical location of business enterprises within the States of Vermont and New Hampshire, and having its principal purpose be industrial and economic development of one or more political…

Employment
2
Addison County Chamber of Commerce Inc

The Addison County Chamber of Commerce mission is to enhance the economic vitality of Addison County.

3
Adirondack Economic Development Corp

To foster and support the growth of sustainable North Country communities through providing assistance to aspiring entrepreneurs and existing small business owners.

Community Improvement
4
Skowhegan Economic Development Corp

To foster, encourage and assist in the location, settlement or resettlement of industry and recreational, agricultural,and other business enterprises in the Town of Skowhegan and in the County of Somerset.

Community Improvement
5
Community Capital of Vermont

To help small businesses and lower income entrepreneurs prosper through the provision of flexible business financing.

Community Improvement
6
The Economic Development Corporation Serving Fresno County

To promote and maintain a strong business climate throughout the city and to foster a healthy and sustainable economy for the benefit of the entire community.

7
Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce Inc

Promote business opportunities

8
Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc

The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.

Community Improvement
9
Essex County Industrial Development Agency Inc

Our mission is to create a viable business atmosphere that will attract compatible and diverse sustainable economic development opportunities.

10
Monadnock Economic Development Corp

Promotion of business development and relocations to the monadnock region of new hampshire.

Community Improvement
11
Economic Development Corp of Shasta Co

The economic development corporation of shasta county is a 501(c)(3)public benefit corporation providing programs to create primary industry employment, resulting in higher wages and added wealth for residents of shasta county.

12
Belknap County Economic Development Council Inc

The mission of the council is to preserve and create employment opportunities, and provide educational and business development assistance in belknap county, new hampshire.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Healthcare NetworksMental Health & Disability …Regional Economic Developme…Senior Centers & Meal Progr…Youth Ski Racing ProgramsCommunity Financial ServicesPublic Libraries
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 230 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
7/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHROMA TECHNOLOGY CORP — $600,000 · OtherCHROMA TECHNOLOGY CORPIndividual grant recipient — $559,947 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRUEXCULLINS — $242,802 · OtherTRUEXCULLINSGREEN RIVER — $150,000 · Other+187 more — $2,298,293 · Other+187 moreSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC — $475,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEASTERN …LAMOILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP — $31,500 · Community ImprovementLAMOILLE ECON…Springfield Regional Development Corp — $25,115 · Community Improvement+1 more — $8,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC — $89,690 · Public BenefitETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC — $59,659 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC — $56,000 · InternationalVermont Employee Ownership Center — $15,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT INC — $6,223 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,851,042Community Improvement$539,615Public Benefit$89,690Human Services$59,659International$56,000Education$15,000Recreation & Sports$6,223

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC — $475,000 over 9y, 39% of budgetSOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC — $89,690 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC — $59,659 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC — $56,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetBENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION — $41,499 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON INDUSTRIAL CORP — $38,650 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGreen Mountain Economic Development Corp — $31,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLAMOILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP — $31,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetSpringfield Regional Development Corp — $25,115 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP — $19,610 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetRUTLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP — $19,489 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAddison County Economic Development Corporation — $16,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetVermont Employee Ownership Center — $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFranklin County Industrial Development Corporation — $9,026 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOLD SCHOOL ENRICHMENT COUNCIL INC — $8,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT INC — $6,223 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INC
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC
  • Who funds ETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY DEV COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC
  • Who funds BENNINGTON COUNTY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATION
  • Who funds GREATER BURLINGTON INDUSTRIAL CORP
  • Who funds Green Mountain Economic Development Corp
  • Who funds LAMOILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP
  • Who funds ALUMNAE CORP ALPHA IOTA CHAPTER
  • Who funds Springfield Regional Development Corp
  • Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP
  • Who funds RUTLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP
  • Who funds Addison County Economic Development Corporation

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 FoundationVT17× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Thomas Thompson 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 Brattleboro Development Credit Corp 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 61%
  • Bennington County Industrial Corporation100% of income from government
  • Addison County Economic Development Corporation79% of income from government
  • Lamoille Economic Development Corp69% of income from government
  • Springfield Regional Development Corp68% of income from government
  • Southeast Vermont Transit Inc61% of income from government
  • Green Mountain Economic Development Corp34% of income from government
  • Vermont Employee Ownership Center31% of income from government
  • Community Development Support Inc13% of income from government
  • Old School Enrichment Council Inc7% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Economic Development Corp7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Brattleboro Development Credit Corp?

Find your warmest path to Brattleboro Development Credit Corp through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 230 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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