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The Onda Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$1.0MEducation$770kEnvironment$695kArts & Culture$573kRecreation & Sports$547kHousing & Shelter$211kFood & Nutrition$172kHealth$163kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $383k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $693k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
One Percent for the Planet$125,000
Fundacion Cuatro Estrellas$100,000
Champlain College$100,000
UVM Foundation$95,000
Community Sailing Center$62,665
Champlain Housing Trust$60,000
Saint Lawrence University$50,000
Champlain Valley Office of Economic$50,000
Talent Skate Park$50,000
United Way$30,000
The Nature Conservancy$30,000
King Street Center$25,500
Sustainable Surf$25,000
MEGA Lab$25,000
Audubon Vermont$25,000
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 (FY19–24, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Braver Angels: $25k → 17%Age Well: $10k → 10%Lund Family Center: $50k → 10%King Street Center: $26k → 10%Vermont Afghan Alliance: $25k → 10%Spectrum Youth Family Services: $25k → 10%Spectrum Youth Family Services: $25k → 10%Spectrum Youth Family Services: $25k → 10%Pathways Vermont: $20k → 10%Lund Family Center: $13k → 10%Lund Family Center: $13k → 10%Lund Family Center: $13k → 10%Lund Family Center: $13k → 10%Janet S Munt Family Room: $10k → 10%King Street Center: $5k → 10%King Street Center: $5k → 10%Therapeutics Works: $3k → 10%Pathways Vermont: $1k → 10%Friends of Fletcher Free Library: $500 → 10%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
NY
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
HI
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.
$4.1M · 36 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
24

Total granted

$4.1M
$367k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+69%

Still filing today

58%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • BC
    BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $420k · revenue +59%
  • CH
    CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST
    3× · 2022–2024 · $180k · revenue +35%
  • TS
    TALENT SKATEPARK INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • OP
    Oceanic Preservation Societygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +397%
  • GF
    GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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.

1
Vermont Public Co

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
3
Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.

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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 Trails & Greenways Council

To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.

Environment
6
Alliance for a Better Vermont

Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.

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7
Vermont Land Trust Inc

Rooted in vermont since 1977, the vermont land trust unites land and lives for the enduring benefit of people and the place we share. we help people protect, care for, and connect to land. this includes the farms, forests, natural areas,…

Environment
8
Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

See schedule othe mission of the vermont council on world affairs is to promote awareness and understanding of the world and its people, places and cultures through education and engagement. the future of vermont depends upon the world…

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9
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc

We nurture the economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity of people, businesses, organizations and communities in vermont for the benefit and well-being of all who live here.

Employment
10
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
11
350 Vermont Inc

350 vermont is building a people-powered and people-led climate justice movement in vermont for a just, thriving world. we are guided by the voices, experiences, and solutions of those most impacted by the global climate crisis.

Environment
12
Vermont Woodlands Association

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Let's Grow Kids Inc; the most unlike its peers is Full Circle Theater Foundation 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

49 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. 49 of the 75 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
39/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Saint Lawrence University: $250,000 · OtherSaint Lawrence UniversityCommunity Sailing Center: $200,000 · OtherCommunity Sailing CenterFundacion Cuatro Estrellas: $150,000 · OtherFundacion Cuatro EstrellasOne Percent for the Planet: $150,000 · OtherOne Percent for the PlanetAudubon Vermont: $85,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $85,000 · OtherCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST: $180,000 · OtherCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUSTPARLEY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherPARLEY FOUNDATION+38 more: $754,785 · Other+38 moreLET'S GROW KIDS INC: $753,089 · Youth DevelopmentLET'S GROW KIDS IN…CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $400,000 · EducationCHAMPLAIN CO…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $99,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $420,000 · Arts & CultureBURLINGTON…+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSUSTAINABLE SURF: $125,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINAB…Oceanic Preservation Society: $100,000 · EnvironmentOceanic P…ROZALIA PROJECT: $60,000 · EnvironmentROZALIA P…SHELBURNE FARMS: $45,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE…PROTECT OUR WINTERS: $25,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT O…VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentLund Family Center Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesKING STREET CENTER INC: $35,500 · Human ServicesBraver AngelsInc: $25,000 · Human ServicesVERMONT AFGHAN ALLIANCE: $25,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS VERMONT INC: $21,000 · Human Services+5 more: $23,500 · Human ServicesTALENT SKATEPARK INC: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsKIDS ON THE BALL INC: $119,000 · Recreation & SportsVERMONT HUTS ASSOCIATION LTD: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $12,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,004,785Youth Development$753,089Education$500,000Arts & Culture$421,000Environment$375,000Human Services$305,000Recreation & Sports$291,500

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 budgetLET'S GROW KIDS INC: $753,089 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $420,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $400,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST: $180,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARLEY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetTALENT SKATEPARK INC: $150,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetSUSTAINABLE SURF: $125,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetKIDS ON THE BALL INC: $119,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetLund Family Center Inc: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOceanic Preservation Society: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $99,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetROZALIA PROJECT: $60,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC: $50,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUN VERMONT INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetVERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC: $40,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC: $35,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC: $31,700 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMEGA LAB: $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT AFGHAN ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetPATHWAYS VERMONT INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGENERATOR INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCommon Roots Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOxford House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAGE WELL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT HUTS ASSOCIATION LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURLINGTON FOOTBALL CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON INC: $2,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFull Circle Theater Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Childrens Trust Foundation: $510 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST ↗
  • Who funds PARLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TALENT SKATEPARK INC ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE SURF ↗
  • Who funds KIDS ON THE BALL INC ↗
  • Who funds Lund Family Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Oceanic Preservation Society ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ROZALIA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds RUN VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Braver AngelsInc ↗
  • Who funds MEGA LAB ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT AFGHAN ALLIANCE ↗

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…National Life Group C…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…United Way of Northwe…Mascoma Bank Foundati…The University of Ver…The Morris & Bessie A…George W Mergens Foun…The Waterwheel Founda…The Windham Foundatio…Turrell FundFanny Allen Corporati…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT57.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The University of Vermont Medical Center · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · The Waterwheel Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund · 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 Onda Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Onda Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Therapeutic Works Incorporated: 100% of income from government
  • Vermont Afghan Alliance: 79% of income from government
  • Pathways Vermont Inc: 65% of income from government
  • Dad Guild Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Age Well Inc: 60% 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
  • Lund Family Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Champlain Housing Trust: 15% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont: 13% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation: 8% of income from government
  • Oxford House Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Vermont Recovery Network Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Common Roots Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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 Onda Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Onda Foundation Inc 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 75 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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