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The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$602k
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$1.0MFood & Nutrition$360kHuman Services$323kPhilanthropy$148kHealth$124kPublic Benefit$84kArts & Culture$65kInternational$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k51 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $246k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE & LEARNING$80,000
STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE & LEARNING$75,000
STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE & LEARNING$75,000
STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE & LEARNING$50,000
FAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND$40,000
EMPOWER FUND INC$40,000
HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC$25,000
VERMONT FOODBANK$20,000
CHANGING PERSPECTIVES INC$20,000
VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
TIDES CENTER$20,000
JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM$15,000
SPECTRUM INC$15,000
VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST$11,000
JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $283k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $500 → 14%Mountain Lake PBS: $500 → 14%Changing Perspectives: $56k → 10%Mountain Lake PBS: $500 → 14%CHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $40k → 10%Changing Perspectives: $5k → 10%PATHWAYS VERMONT INC: $750 → 10%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC: $750 → 10%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $750 → 10%AGE WELL INC: $750 → 10%Child Care Resource: $1k → 10%Resource: $750 → 10%Resource: $750 → 10%RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $750 → 10%RESOURCE: $750 → 10%Howard Center: $52k → 10%Spectrum Youth & Family Services: $17k → 10%JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $15k → 10%The Janet S Munt Family Room: $15k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $15k → 10%Spectrum Youth & Family Services: $12k → 10%Spectrum Youth & Family Services: $12k → 10%JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $10k → 10%Howard Center: $2k → 10%AGE WELL: $750 → 10%AGE Well: $750 → 10%The Greater Burlington YMCA: $500 → 10%AGE Well: $500 → 10%The Greater Burlington YMCA: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
ID
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
DE
AZ
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 60 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

60 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
28

Total granted

$1.8M
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+34%

Still filing today

72%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING
    4× · 2021–2024 · $805k · revenue +9%
  • CP
    CHANGING PERSPECTIVES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $121k · revenue +195%
  • SY
    SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $56k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Collective Education Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HC
    HOWARD CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • UO
    University of Vermont
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Governor's Institutes of Vermont

Giv empowers young people with intensive, hands-on learning experiences in college settings which inspire their academic and creative passions, build confidence and leadership, and expand their sense of possibility.

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2
Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
The University of Vermont Medical Center

To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.

Health
4
Vermont Center for Family Studies

Our mission is to strengthen families and communities by improving human relationships. We do this through the training of expert family therapists, advisors, leaders, and family members in Bowen Family Systems Theory.

Human Services
5
Vermont Etv Inc

Vermont pbs celebrates the innovation and creative spirit of vermont, our neighbors in new england, new york and canada, and civic society beyond, to spark community and democracy in our world. we offer programming and events that connect,…

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6
Vermont Family Network Inc

Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.

Human Services
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
9
Vermont Achievement Center Inc

Through flexible, diverse and responsive programs, vermont achievement center, inc. (vac) provides a foundation of life skills to prepare individuals to reach their full potential as contributing members of society. all people are capable…

Education
10
Vt Association for the Education of Young Children

The vermont association for the education of young children (vtaeyc) advances equity and excellence in early childhood education with early childhood educators as our foundation. as a membership organization, we provide resources and…

Education
11
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
12
Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Cold Hollow Sculpture Park Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 108 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
51/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING: $805,000 · HealthSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING+6 more: $35,000 · HealthCHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $121,000 · Human ServicesCHANGING PERSPE…SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $56,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH …HowardCenter Inc: $54,000 · Human ServicesHowardCenter In…Janet Munt Family Room: $40,000 · Human ServicesJanet Munt Fami…TIDES CENTER: $20,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER+8 more: $19,500 · Human Services+8 moreThe Collective Education Fund: $50,000 · OtherThe Collective Education …HOWARD CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES: $50,000 · OtherHOWARD CENTER FOR HUMAN S…EMPOWER FUND INC: $40,000 · OtherEMPOWER FUND INCUVM College of Medicine: $27,000 · OtherUVM College of MedicineUniversity of Vermont: $20,000 · OtherVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $44,000 · OtherVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST …BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · OtherHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC: $40,000 · OtherHUNGER FREE VERMONT INCFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND: $40,000 · OtherFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT…TEAM RUBICON INC: $16,750 · Other+62 more: $153,100 · Other+62 moreSHELBURNE FARMS: $203,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE …+1 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $120,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyVERMONT FOODBANK: $110,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $52,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 · EducationLEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC: $18,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $5,000 · EducationPROCTOR ACADEMY: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $5,250 · Education
Health$840,000Human Services$310,500Other$498,350Environment$207,000Philanthropy$127,500Food & Nutrition$112,000Education$110,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING: $805,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $203,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $121,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $110,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $56,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHowardCenter Inc: $54,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $52,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $44,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $16,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $12,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY: $10,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPRESCOTT COLLEGE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeeping Track Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ON THE BALL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAGE WELL INC: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD HOLLOW SCULPTURE PARK INC: $2,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRILOS RESCUE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSAIL BEYOND CANCER VT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFOOD 4 FARMERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC CO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE CRAFT SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOON PHILANTHROPY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Vermont Community…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…National Life Group C…George W Mergens Foun…Antonio B and Rita M …The University of Ver…Oakland Foundation IncRUTH & PETER METZ FAM…United Way of Northwe…The Argosy FoundationThe Onda Foundation I…Fanny Allen Corporati…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT70.5× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Pathways Vermont Inc: 65% of income from government
  • Age Well Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Janet Munt Family Room: 44% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Child Care Resource: 43% of income from government
  • Dismas of Vermont Inc: 39% of income from government
  • United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Sterling College: 10% of income from government
  • Clemmons Family Farm Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • HowardCenter Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Public Co: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Orchestra Association Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Stern Center for Language and Learning: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • The Hun School of Princeton: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 108 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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