Vermont · Private foundation
The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $602k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2024
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 65
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 54 | $557k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $633k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $437k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $435k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stern Center for Language and Learning | $805,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Shelburne Farms | $203,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Changing Perspectives | $121,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Vermont Foodbank | $110,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Spectrum Youth and Family Services Inc | $56,000 | 4 | 0% |
| HowardCenter Inc | $54,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Champlain College Incorporated | $52,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd | $44,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Janet Munt Family Room | $40,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Fair Democracy Engagement Fund | $40,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($206k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Antonio B and Rita M Pomerleau Foundation Inc · The University of Vermont Medical Center · Oakland Foundation Inc · RUTH & PETER METZ FAMILY FOUNDATION co THOMAS PHELAN · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · The Argosy Foundation · The Onda Foundation Inc · Fanny Allen Corporation
How this is measured
Compare The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation with peer funders
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About The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation
- How much does The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation give?
- The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $601,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 65 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (46%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Stern Center for Language and Learning ($805k), Shelburne Farms ($203k), Changing Perspectives ($121k).
- Does The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation based?
- The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation is based in VT.
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