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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 you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

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

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
$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
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
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 (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.

area typical 12%TIDES CENTER: $20k → 10%Mountain Lake PBS: $500 → 14%MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL: $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 A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $750 → 10%Resource: $750 → 10%Resource: $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%AGE Well: $500 → 10%The Greater Burlington YMCA: $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

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

VT
NH
ID
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
DE
AZ
DC
TX

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve 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

+15%
+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

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

  • SC
    STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING
    4× · 2021–2024 · $805k · revenue +9%
  • SHELBURNE FARMS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $203k · revenue +62%
  • CP
    CHANGING PERSPECTIVES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $121k · revenue +195%

Funded once

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

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
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.

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,…

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.

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringEquine Therapy ProgramsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Food Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …Ymca Youth DevelopmentYouth Sports ProgramsSenior Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersUnited Way AffiliatesYouth Development CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…
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.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%4%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr20%19%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr17%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%2%<5yr12%5%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr20%7%20–35yr16%72%35–55yr17%8%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
8%
489/6,033

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
51/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 moreHOWARD CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES — $50,000 · OtherHOWARD CENTER FOR HUMAN S…The Collective Education Fund — $50,000 · OtherThe Collective Education …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 · EducationPROCTOR ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College — $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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room — $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFAIR DEMOCRACY ENGAGEMENT FUND — $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC — $11,000 over 2y, 1.8% 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 budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKeeping Track Inc — $4,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetSTERLING COLLEGE — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD HOLLOW SCULPTURE PARK INC — $2,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC CO — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL BEYOND CANCER VT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD 4 FARMERS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHELBURNE CRAFT SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRILOS RESCUE INC — $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

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 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

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 180%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Pathways Vermont Inc65% of income from government
  • Age Well Inc60% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc52% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc47% of income from government
  • Janet Munt Family Room44% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc43% of income from government
  • Child Care Resource43% of income from government
  • Dismas of Vermont Inc39% of income from government
  • United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc34% of income from government
  • Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc33% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc24% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc17% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc16% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank13% of income from government
  • The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc13% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc11% of income from government
  • Sterling College10% of income from government
  • Clemmons Family Farm Inc9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc9% of income from government
  • HowardCenter Inc8% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc6% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc2% of income from government
  • Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc2% of income from government
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd0% of income from government
  • Vermont Public Co0% of income from government
  • Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated0% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Orchestra Association Inc0% of income from government
  • Stern Center for Language and Learning0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation0% of income from government
  • The Hun School of Princeton0% 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, 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.

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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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 108 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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