· Private foundation
The Onda Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $383k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $693k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Talent Skate Park | $50,000 |
| Champlain Valley Office of Economic | $50,000 |
| Saint Lawrence University | $50,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $30,000 |
| United Way | $30,000 |
| King Street Center | $25,500 |
| Vermont Afghan Alliance | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MEGA Lab | $25,000 |
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 (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. 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
- BCBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $420k · revenue +59%
- TSTALENT SKATEPARK INC3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +21%
- SSSUSTAINABLE SURF4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- OPOceanic Preservation Societygraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +397%
- GFGROUNDS FOR HEALTH INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
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.
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.
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,…
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…
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.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Let's Grow Kids Inc and 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.
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 25 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) — 7% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 75 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 LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds TALENT SKATEPARK INC ↗
- Who funds PARLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE SURF ↗
- Who funds KIDS ON THE BALL INC ↗
- Who funds Oceanic Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds Lund Family Center Inc ↗
- 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 GROUNDS FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RUN VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds Braver AngelsInc ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT AFGHAN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MEGA LAB ↗
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 · 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
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 Onda Foundation Inc 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.
- 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
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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