· Private foundation
The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k51 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $246k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| EMPOWER FUND INC | $40,000 |
| FAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND | $40,000 |
| HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC | $25,000 |
| VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CHANGING PERSPECTIVES INC | $20,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $20,000 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $20,000 |
| SPECTRUM INC | $15,000 |
| JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM | $15,000 |
| VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST | $11,000 |
| LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC | $10,000 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
- SCSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING4× · 2021–2024 · $805k · revenue +9%
SHELBURNE FARMS4× · 2021–2024 · $203k · revenue +62%- CPCHANGING PERSPECTIVES4× · 2021–2024 · $121k · revenue +195%
Funded once
- HCHOWARD CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TCThe Collective Education Fundone grant, 2021 · $50k
- UOUniversity of Vermontone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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.
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…
To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.
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.
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,…
Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.
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…
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
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…
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…
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd and 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
74 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. 74 of the 108 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 STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HowardCenter Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Janet Munt Family Room ↗
- Who funds FAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRESCOTT COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds Keeping Track Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC ↗
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 · 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
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 Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation 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.
- 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
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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