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The Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% 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$199kFood & Nutrition$144kHealth$88kHuman Services$60kCivil Rights$42kHousing & Shelter$34kCommunity Improvement$32kPhilanthropy$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE VERGENNES OPERA HOUSE$100,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS$25,000
CHARLOTTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$9,548
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 (FY17–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEIGHBORS IN ACTION: $10k → 12%VERMONT LIONS CHARITIES: $10k → 9%Shelburne food Shelf: $1k → 10%PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT: $15k → 10%FAITH IN ACTION NORTHERN COMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP INC: $6k → 12%Southern Vermont Community Action: $3k → 11%Capstone Community Action: $3k → 9%Southern Vermont Community Action: $1k → 11%Capstone Community Action: $2k → 9%Resource: $3k → 10%Age Well: $1k → 9%Age Well: $1k → 9%Capstone Community Action: $1k → 9%Capstone Community Action: $1k → 9%CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF: $5k → 10%Charlotte Foodshelf: $3k → 10%Charlotte Foodshelf: $3k → 10%Charlotte Foodshelf: $2k → 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.
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$394k · 29 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
65

Total granted

$394k
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+25%

Still filing today

62%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • VF
    VERMONT FOODBANK
    5× · 2017–2023 · $79k · revenue +50%
  • RM
    Rokeby Museum
    3× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +68%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $31k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UM
    Union Meeting House
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
  • FI
    Faith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +24%
  • PC
    Pride Center of Vermont Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -28%
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
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
2
Groundworks Collaborative Inc

Groundworks collaborative, inc. provides emergency shelter, housing assistance & a food shelf for homeless persons.

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3
Bennington County Meals Program

Provide quality, nutritious and creative meals to individuals age sixty years and older; as well as, disabled residents of Bennington County, Vermont. This is accomplished through a community meal program and home deliveries to those…

Food & Nutrition
4
Lamoille Community Food Share Inc

The mission of lamoille community food share is to help support and improve the physical well-being of individuals who might otherwise go hungry. to this end, we provide supplemental food free of charge in a supportive environment,…

Food & Nutrition
5
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.

Community Improvement
6
Community Harvest of Central Vermont

We bring our community together through gleaning to recover surplus food produced on area farms to feed those with limited access to nutritious, fresh local food, and in the process help the community to gain a greater awareness and…

Food & Nutrition
7
Feed Every Need

Feed Every Need is fighting hunger and food insecurity in Vermont by providing prepared meals to partner organizations for distribution to htose in need.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Homestead Inc
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9
Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc

The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.

Community Improvement
10
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc

The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.

Environment
11
Vermont Fresh Network Corporation

Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.

Community Improvement
12
Valley Cares Inc

Create and provide a continuum of quality affordable housing and eldercare services for the residents of the west river valley and beyond, in cooperation with the community organizations and agencies that serve them.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Folklife Center; the most unlike its peers is Potomac Theatre Project 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

50 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. 50 of the 97 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
36/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE VERGENNES OPERA HOUSE: $100,000 · OtherTHE VERGENNES OPERA HOUSEHope: $45,000 · OtherHopeCharlotte Library: $25,000 · OtherCharlotte LibraryFaith in Action Northern Comm: $23,500 · OtherFaith in Action Northern CommUnion Meeting House: $17,000 · OtherNEW COMMUNITY PROJECT: $15,000 · Other+58 more: $184,148 · Other+58 moreVERMONT FOODBANK: $79,000 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODB…+6 more: $6,000 · Food & Nutrition+6 moreFaith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc: $15,500 · Human ServicesFaith in Act…Pride Center of Vermont Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesPride Center…CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesCHARLOTTE FO…VERMONT LIONS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesVERMONT LION…AGE WELL INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesAGE WELL INCCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COM…STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSTEPS TO END…SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $4,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesRokeby Museum: $38,000 · Arts & CultureRokeby Mu…VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 · Arts & CultureVERMONT H…VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureVERMONT Y…BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureBARRE OPERA HOUSE INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CURRENT INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC: $31,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC: $25,000 · HealthCOUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY: $2,000 · HealthBrattleboro Memorial Hospital: $2,000 · HealthThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterMIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterANEW PLACE INC: $3,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$409,648Food & Nutrition$85,000Human Services$80,000Arts & Culture$57,000Philanthropy$31,000Health$29,000Housing & Shelter$25,500

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 budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $79,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRokeby Museum: $38,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFaith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc: $15,500 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetPride Center of Vermont Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHYPERBARIC VERMONT INC: $13,600 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC: $13,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVERMONT LIONS CHARITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetAGE WELL INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC: $7,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPotomac Theatre Project Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANEW PLACE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBENNINGTON MUSEUM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARRE OPERA HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBarre Historical Society: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTING HOPE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRETREAT FARM LTD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP THORPE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CURRENT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBrattleboro Memorial Hospital: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME SHARE NOW INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKIDSAFE COLLABORATIVE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHINESBURG COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDismas of Vermont Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCommon Roots Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHELBURNE FOOD SHELF INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds Rokeby Museum ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Faith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc ↗
  • Who funds Pride Center of Vermont Inc ↗
  • Who funds HYPERBARIC VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE FOOD SHELF INC ↗
  • Who funds The John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT LIONS CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds AGE WELL INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN ADVENTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Potomac Theatre Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANEW PLACE INC ↗

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…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…National Life Group C…The Windham Foundatio…Agnes M Lindsay TrustOakland Foundation IncVermont Council on th…Richard E and Deborah…Fanny Allen Corporati…United Way of Northwe…George W Mergens Foun…Community Bank Na Fou…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT70.2× affinity36 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 · The Windham Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Oakland Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · Fanny Allen Corporation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc

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 Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Vermont Folklife Center: 90% of income from government
  • Capstone Community Action Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Kidsafe Collaborative Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc: 71% of income from government
  • Good Samaritan Haven Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Age Well Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Vermont Historical Society: 51% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Dismas of Vermont Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Pride Center of Vermont Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Retreat Farm Ltd: 25% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • United Way of Addison County Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Memorial Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Common Roots Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Orchestra Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
10rely 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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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 97 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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