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The Osgood-Hilles Charitable Trust at a glance

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The Osgood-Hilles Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$343kEducation$110kReligion$80kHealth$46kRecreation & Sports$35kAnimals$30kCommunity Improvement$25kPublic Benefit$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM$30,000
OLD SOUTH CHURCH$20,000
CORNISH COMMUNITY INITIATIVE$12,500
COLBY SAWYER COLLEGE$10,000
WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY$10,000
LUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
ASCUTNEY OUTDOORS$5,000
WINDSOR FOOD SHELF$4,000
VERMONT PUBLIC$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%READING W WINDSOR AGING IN PLACE: $1k → 9%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$663k · 13 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$663k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+2%

Still filing today

69%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AP
    AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +225%
  • LO
    LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP
    7× · 2017–2023 · $103k · revenue +140%
  • WP
    WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • CG
    Community Gallery Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +23%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • CV
    CONNECTICUT VALLEY ADDICTION RECOVERY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -6%
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 Radio

Listener-supported Vermont Public Radio has been serving the people of Vermont and the surrounding region since 1977. As Vermonts only statewide public radio network, VPR provides an essential and trusted independent voice for news,…

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2
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
3
Dorset Village Public Library Association Inc

General reading and lending library offering 24,000 titles, videos, audio books, newspapers, magazines, as well as, various programs to 3,000 residents of Dorset and smaller towns.

Education
4
Blake Memorial Library Association

Public Library

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5
Norwich Public Library Association

The Norwich Public Library vigorously nurtures a love of reading and the pursuit of life-long learning through its broad collections and dynamic activities honed to meet the needs and interests of the ever-changing community. A welcoming…

Education
6
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
7
Lincoln Library Inc

The Lincoln Library enriches lives and builds community in a welcoming supportive environment by providing accessible resources programs services and spaces that meet the current and evolving needs of the community.

Education
8
Castleton Free Library

The Castleton Free Library serves as a welcoming center for our community and a gateway to the world of information and imagination. We provide free access to materials and ideas through robust collection development, cultural and creative…

Education
9
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Central Vermont Community Televisio

The primary mission is to produce and cablecast coverage of municipal and government proceedings and support and promote programs of local interest which have been produced by members of the community.

Arts & Culture
11
Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments

To strengten local government while combining total resources to meet regional challenges beyond individual capacities and to serve as a mutual forum to identify, study, and to bring into focus regional interest.

Public Benefit
12
Community Access Television Inc

JAM's mission is to build community through the media arts in the Upper Valley of VT and NH.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lebanon Opera House Improvement Corp; the most unlike its peers is Reading-West Windsor Aging in Place. 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

15 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. 15 of the 21 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM INCLEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP: $102,500 · Arts & CultureLEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORPCommunity Gallery Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Gallery IncVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR VISUAL ARTS: $95,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR VISUAL ARTSOLD SOUTH CHURCH: $80,000 · OtherOLD SOUTH CHURCHMT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER: $30,000 · OtherMT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CEN…+5 more: $13,000 · Other+5 moreColby-Sawyer College: $65,000 · EducationColby-Sawyer Coll…WINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $45,000 · EducationWINDSOR PUBLIC LI…Mt Ascutney Outdoors Inc: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · AnimalsCORNISH COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $25,000 · Community ImprovementGood Neighbor Health Clinic Inc: $15,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT VALLEY ADDICTION RECOVERY INC: $1,200 · Health
Arts & Culture$260,500Other$218,000Education$110,000Recreation & Sports$35,000Animals$30,000Community Improvement$25,000Health$16,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM INC: $120,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetLEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP: $102,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWINDSOR PUBLIC LIBRARY: $45,000 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetMt Ascutney Outdoors Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetLUCY MACKENZIE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCORNISH COMMUNITY INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Gallery Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGood Neighbor Health Clinic Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT PUBLIC CO: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT VALLEY ADDICTION RECOVERY INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREADING-WEST WINDSOR AGING IN PLACE: $1,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNORTHERN STAGE COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Couch Family Foun…The Vermont Community…New Hampshire Charita…Mascoma Bank Foundati…Frank and Brinna Sand…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Hypertherm Hope Found…Mt Roeschmore Foundat…The Help for People F…The Stannard & Doroth…Claremont Savings Ban…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Couch Family FoundationNH22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Couch Family Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Frank and Brinna Sands Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · Mt Roeschmore Foundation · The Help for People Foundation · The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust · Claremont Savings Bank Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Osgood-Hilles Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Osgood-Hilles Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Windsor Public Library: 9% of income from government
  • Northern Stage Company: 5% of income from government
  • Vermont Public Co: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 Osgood-Hilles Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Osgood-Hilles Charitable Trust 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 21 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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