How much did THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Environment$34MArts & Culture$31MHuman Services$18MEducation$16MHealth$13MFood & Nutrition$9.2MCommunity Improvement$8.9MYouth Development$6.3MHousing & Shelter$6.0MOther$69M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

gendog ranchranch rescuerestorativeedisondifferentjustice social

2019

gensilver bayneklsimmigrationrepresentationquakerpbs kids

2020

communications unionfenixskilled nursingassistedsaloncitizens mealshealth independence

2021

costa ricacommercialexcellentgolfbdccbuild nextgeneration conservation

2022

razomenterprisesukrainementorsconfrontingadvancing healthhealth research

2023

wwfsee partbabyinfantmauiiii statementstatement accomplishments

2024

advisor's notebetter placesflood reliefstrategicjulynote memoryparticipation healthy

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 728 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k154 grants · $1.1M
$10k–50k418 grants · $8.6M
$50k–250k124 grants · $12M
$250k+32 grants · $25M

$18,000

Median grant

States reached

$371M

Total assets

Largest grants

ECHO LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC$7,951,562
VERMONT LONG-TERM DISASTER RECOVERY GROUP INC$2,045,608
PATHWAYS VERMONT$1,313,879
VERMONT LAND TRUST$1,168,659
CATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATION$1,011,000
FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$755,930
NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES$719,758
HOPE COALITION$650,000
REVITALIZING WATERBURY INC$529,950
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT CANCER CENTER$512,102
INTERVALE CENTER INC$472,568
THE MENTOR CONNECTOR$465,000
PARKS FOUNDATION OF BURLINGTON INC$455,128
TOWN HALL THEATER INC$429,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FOUNDATION$426,950

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $12.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$197M · 871 repeat orgs$16M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

871 repeat relationships — 565 still active in FY2024, 306 since wound down; 163 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

871

614

Total granted

$197M

$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+31%

Still filing today

82%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

VERMONT LAND TRUST
8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +78%
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ECHO LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +43%
SL
STOWE LAND TRUST
4× · 2019–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +284% · 73% of their budget

Funded once

NP
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $569k · revenue +241%
NM
NOW MATTERS NOW
one grant, 2023 · $526k
CO
CENTER ON RURAL INNOVATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +167%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Alliance for a Better Vermont

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

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American Civil Liberties Union

The ACLU of Vermont is a membership organization that protects civil liberties.

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Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life.

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Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform

Education of the public about the criminal justice system. Direct services to people struggling with substance use disorder, including case managment and recovery support.

Crime & Legal

Vermont Farm Bureau Inc

To be the unifying voice of vermont agriculture.

Food & Nutrition

Vermont Riverlands Llc

To acquire and manage conserved lands along the waters of vermont.

Environment

Vermont Businesses for Social

To leverage the power of business for positive social and environmental impact.

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Green Mountain Economic Development Corp

To foster and develop economic vitality and prosperity consistent with the goals of the communities we serve.

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Vermont Fresh Network Corporation

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

Community Improvement

Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce Inc

Promote business opportunities

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Ridgeline Outdoor Collective

To ensure the sustainability of future mountain biking in vermont. attain permission from private and public landowners to build, promote responsible riding, conservation and youth participation

Recreation & Sports

Woodstock Land Conservancy

Acquire land and easements to preserve and enhance the open lands, forests, water resources, scenic areas and historical sights of the Woodstock, NY area. Steward protected lands and offer educational programs and events regarding nature…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community of Vermont Elders Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seton Hall University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%20/1,613

the rest of the field

400/4,496

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.

05the grantee network

1197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

421

Early backer (in before they grew)

1150/1197

Grantees still filing

892/1197

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$90,627,725Environment$33,865,861Arts & Culture$31,171,142Human Services$18,228,913Education$16,116,489Health$13,493,954Food & Nutrition$9,245,399

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.

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.

Vermont Council on the Arts IncVT151.2× affinity138 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Vermont Foodbank · Vermont Afterschool Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Vermont Humanities Council · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable · High Meadows Fund Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New

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 organisation THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

2024

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Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships — 100% of income from government
The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
Shires Housing Inc — 100% of income from government
City Green Inc — 100% of income from government
Watersheds United Vermont Inc — 95% of income from government
Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
Southeastern Vermont Community Action — 83% of income from government
Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc — 82% of income from government
Umbrella of St Johnsbury Inc — 76% of income from government
Cathedral Square Corporation — 73% of income from government
Boys & Girls Club of Rutland County — 72% of income from government
North Central Vermont Recovery — 69% of income from government
Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
Good Samaritan Haven Inc — 63% of income from government
Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
Prevent Child Abuse Vermont — 58% 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 Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
Vermont Youth Conservation Corps — 47% of income from government
Parent Child Center Inc — 45% of income from government
Mosaic Vermont Inc — 44% of income from government
King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
Vermont Rural Education Collaborative Inc — 43% of income from government
Root Social Justice Center Inc — 42% of income from government
Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
Peace and Justice Center — 41% of income from government
Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
Center On Rural Innovation Inc — 37% of income from government
United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc — 34% of income from government
Leahy Center for Lake — 33% of income from government
Northeast Organic Farming — 31% of income from government
Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
Vermont Community Garden Network Inc — 28% of income from government
Catamount Film & Arts Company — 27% of income from government
Salvation Farms Inc — 26% of income from government
Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
Community Resilience Organizations — 25% of income from government
Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
Champlain Valley Office of Economic — 23% of income from government
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
Vermont Council On the Arts Inc — 20% of income from government
Elderly Services Inc — 19% of income from government
Addison County Community Action Gro — 18% of income from government
Vermont Covertswoodlands for — 18% of income from government
Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
Community Health Centers — 17% of income from government
Gilman Housing Trust Inc — 17% of income from government
Boys and Girls Club of Burlington — 16% of income from government
Springfield Medical Care Systems Inc — 16% of income from government
Food Connects — 15% of income from government
Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc — 14% of income from government
Chittenden Community Television — 14% of income from government
United Way of Lamoille County Inc — 14% of income from government
Vermont Community Loan Fund — 14% 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
The Green Mountain Club Inc — 12% of income from government
Center for an Agricultural — 12% of income from government
Town Hall Theater Inc — 11% of income from government
Vermont Symphony Orchestra — 11% of income from government
Stowe Land Trust — 10% of income from government
Susu Community Farm Inc — 10% of income from government
Clemmons Family Farm Inc — 9% of income from government
Rutland West Neighborhood Housing — 9% of income from government
Behavioral Health Network of Vt Inc — 8% of income from government
Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
Vermont Farm-to-School Inc — 7% of income from government
Downstreet Housing and Community — 7% of income from government
Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
Revitalizing Waterbury Inc — 5% of income from government
The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
Vermont Stage Company — 4% of income from government
Litchfield Performing Arts Inc — 4% of income from government
Stowe Story Labs Inc — 3% of income from government
Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 1% of income from government
The Windham Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
Elnu Abenaki Inc — 0% of income from government
Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc — 0% of income from government
The Nature Museum at Grafton — 0% of income from government
Energy Action Network Inc — 0% of income from government
Migrant Justice Inc — 0% of income from government
Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
Rutland Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

55get no government money at all

19rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHAMP P3.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 475672968 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CHAMP P3, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Vermont Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Vermont Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines