· Private foundation
The Lionheart Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $33,403 |
| GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION | $24,992 |
| BUILDING BURLINGTONS FUTURE | $20,000 |
| PATHWAYS VERMONT | $10,000 |
| VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO | $6,200 |
| FLYNN CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $5,250 |
| Guatemala Aid Fund | $5,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Burlington V | $5,000 |
| AGE WELL | $5,000 |
| BRADFORD TEEN CENTER | $5,000 |
| Landmark College | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CTR | $3,000 |
| Shelburne Museum | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 14 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2018–2022 · $404k · revenue +65%
- GDGUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND5× · 2020–2025 · $102k · revenue +67%
- MAMILTON ARTISTS GUILD INC6× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +170% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- GPGRAMERCY PARK BLOCK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF VTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SBSOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
Vcet's purpose is to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship across vermont. this is accomplished by providing expert mentoring and technical assistance, the operation of coworking/incubation facilities and the operation of early stage…
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
Vermont woodlands association's (vwa) mission is to educate and advocate for the practices of productive stewardship, use, and enjoyment of vermont's woodlands. we achieve this mission by delivering educational programs and technical…
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…
To end the injustice of hunger for everyone and prioritize the people most affected by hunger to make a permanent systemic change.
To protect and enhance the natural resources of vermont in order to promote the well-being of present and future generations of vermonters and visitors; preserve and aid in the preservation of open land along rivers and lakes; protect and…
Through research, education, collaboration and advocacy, vnrc protects and enhances vermont's natural environments, vibrant communities, productive working landscapes, rural character and unique sense of place, and prepares the state for…
Vermont association of conservation districts (vacd) promotes the conservation of vermont's soil, water, forests, wildlife and other natural resources by supporting vermont's fourteen natural resource conservation districts and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Council On the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yachtaid Global. 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.
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.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 123 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 THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds MILTON ARTISTS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Lund Family Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Building Burlingtons Future Corporation ↗
- Who funds GUATEMALA AID FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLOTTE NEWS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds SARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
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 · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · The Onda Foundation Inc · The Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation Inc · RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN
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 The Lionheart Charitable Trust 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.
- Elevate Youth Services Inc — 88% of income from government
- Vermont Family Network Inc — 81% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Pathways Vermont Inc — 65% of income from government
- Milton Family Community Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Orange County Parent Child Center Inc — 63% of income from government
- Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- The Vermont River Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Vermont Council On the Arts Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- United Way of Lamoille County Inc — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Sterling College — 10% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Vermont Bar Foundation — 3% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Landmark College Inc — 1% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% 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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