· Private foundation
The Windham Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k116 grants · $272k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $40,205 |
| GRAFTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $14,949 |
| GRACE COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $13,500 |
| VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $12,000 |
| NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT | $10,500 |
| GRAFTON FUND DONATIONS | $10,000 |
| SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT | $10,000 |
| NATURE MUSEUM AT GRAFTON | $7,376 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $7,300 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $7,000 |
| COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC | $5,350 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN FARM TO SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| VERMONT ADULT LEARNING | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $62k) 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 your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of The Windham Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
219 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2025, 129 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k 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
- SHSOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +112%
- GCGrace Cottage Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $42k · revenue +54%
- CGCarlos G Otis Health Care Center3× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- GMGREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- TFTHE FLOW OF HISTORYone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TVTHE VERMONT ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…
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 community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
To protect and enhance the natural resources of vermont in order to promote the well-being of present and future generations of vermonters and visitors; preserve and aid in the preservation of open land along rivers and lakes; protect and…
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
To provide research and education on issues of importance to the natural, human, and economic environments of vermont citizens.
The mission of Vermont Performing Arts League is to support and sustain a spirit of community among diverse peoples by fostering educational, cultural, social and recreational
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…
Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.
Mt. Ascutney Outdoors, Inc's mission is to promote vitality within the community by providing affordable and unique recreational, cultural and educational activities to local residents and visitors from the Upper Valley region of Vermont…
Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Folklife Center and the most unlike its peers is Lake Dunmore Fern Lake Association. 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
200 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. 200 of the 542 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
- Who funds Carlos G Otis Health Care Center ↗
- Who funds NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds St Johnsbury Academy ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Flow of History ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Catamount Film & Arts Company ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Common Roots Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
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 · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Thomas Thompson Trust · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · High Meadows Fund Inc
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 Windham 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.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- Vermont Folklife Center — 90% of income from government
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Green Mountain Recovery Foundation Inc — 79% of income from government
- Vermont Adult Learning Inc — 78% of income from government
- Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc — 75% of income from government
- Groundworks Collaborative Inc — 73% of income from government
- Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Dad Guild Inc — 63% of income from government
- Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
- Cold Hollow to Canada Incorporated — 56% 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
- Green Mountain Conservancy Incorporated — 49% of income from government
- Windmill Hill Pinnacle Association — 47% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Vermont Rural Education Collaborative Inc — 43% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Vermont Afterschool Inc — 42% of income from government
- Peace and Justice Center — 41% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Dismas of Vermont Inc — 39% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc — 34% of income from government
- Cross Vermont Trail Assocation Inc — 33% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% 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
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% 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
- Vermont Granite Museum of Barre — 19% of income from government
- Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis — 17% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Food Connects — 15% of income from government
- Green Mountain United Way Inc — 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
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Susu Community Farm Inc — 10% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Composting Association of Vermont Inc — 9% of income from government
- Parks Place Community Center — 8% of income from government
- Vermont Parks Forever Inc — 8% of income from government
- Rescue Inc — 7% of income from government
- Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
- Vermont Farm-to-School Inc — 7% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Historical Society of Windham County Inc — 6% of income from government
- Music to Life Inc — 5% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- Bull Creek Common Lands — 4% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Vermont Energy Education Program Inc — 4% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Academy — 3% of income from government
- Upper Valley Trails Alliance — 3% of income from government
- Champlain Community Service Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Chandler Center for the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- South Hero Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brattleboro Area Farmers Market — 1% of income from government
- A Far Cry Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Northeastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc — 1% of income from government
- Brattleboro Memorial Hospital — 1% of income from government
- The Weston Playhouse Theater — 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Common Roots Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Nature Museum at Grafton — 0% of income from government
- Theatre Adventure Inc — 0% of income from government
- Zack's Place Enrichment Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Orchestra Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Stern Center for Language and Learning — 0% of income from government
- The Sharon Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
- Montclair Ambulance Unit — 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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