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· Public charity

The Vermont Children's Alliance

To provide support services to local communities and childrens advocacy centers, to serve as a resource and to facilitate a network dedicated to coordinated and comprehensive response to child abuse.

$41k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Crime & Legal$147kHuman Services$7k
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $26,679, the rows itemized in this filing. The $40,684 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,005 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,309
Median grant
1
States reached
$79k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NUSI$10,413
Child First Advocacy Center$8,309
Our House of Central Vermont$7,957
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NUSI: $17k → 9%The Family Place: $7k → 9%Our House of Central Vermont: $12k → 9%CUSI: $7k → 10%Windham Co Safe Place: $12k → 11%Bennington Co Child Advocacy Ctr: $9k → 11%NUSI: $10k → 9%Our House of Central Vermont: $10k → 9%CUSI: $7k → 10%Bennington Cty Child Advocacy Ctr: $7k → 11%NUSI: $9k → 9%Our House of Central Vt: $9k → 9%NUSI: $7k → 9%Our House of Central Vermont: $8k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$135k · 5 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$135k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22
Crime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NU
    NORTHWEST UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
    4× · 2017–2022 · $43k · revenue +11%
  • OH
    OUR House of Central Vermont Inc
    4× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +64%
  • CC
    Chittenden Children's Advocacy Center Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • WC
    WINDHAM COUNTY SAFE PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY & SE UNIT/SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +37%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +29%
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
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUTLAND COUNTY CHILD FIRST: $23,834 · Crime & LegalRUTLAND COUNTY CHILD FIRSTBennington County Association Against Child Abuse: $16,154 · Crime & LegalBennington County Association Against Child Abus…Chittenden Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $14,000 · Crime & LegalChittenden Children's Advocacy Center IncWINDHAM COUNTY SAFE PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY & SE UNIT/SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: $11,809 · Crime & LegalWINDHAM COUNTY SAFE PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY & SE UN…OUR House of Central Vermont Inc: $38,360 · OtherOUR House of Central Vermont IncTHE FAMILY PLACE INC: $7,000 · OtherTHE FAMILY PLACE INCNORTHWEST UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS: $43,007 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVE…
Crime & Legal$65,797Other$45,360Philanthropy$43,007

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHWEST UNIT FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS: $43,007 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetOUR House of Central Vermont Inc: $38,360 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetRUTLAND COUNTY CHILD FIRST: $23,834 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBennington County Association Against Child Abuse: $16,154 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetChittenden Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetWINDHAM COUNTY SAFE PLACE CHILD ADVOCACY & SE UNIT/SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: $11,809 over 1y, 5.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Vermont Children's Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vermont Children's Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 72%
  • Our House of Central Vermont Inc: 72% of income from government
  • The Family Place Inc: 33% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Vermont Children's Alliance?

Find your warmest path to The Vermont Children's Alliance 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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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