· Private foundation
The Windham Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT | $10,000 |
| SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| NATURE MUSEUM AT GRAFTON | $7,376 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $7,300 |
| SHELBURNE FARMS | $7,000 |
| COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC | $5,350 |
| JENNA'S PROMISE | $5,000 |
| WINDHAM HILL PINNACLE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| VERMONT ADULT LEARNING | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 30% of The Windham Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
222 repeat relationships: 90 still active in FY2025, 132 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +112%
- GCGrace Cottage Foundation4× · 2021–2024 · $42k · revenue +136%
- NSNEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- GMGREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- TVTHE VERMONT ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TFTHE FLOW OF HISTORYone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
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.
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…
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
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.
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
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…
To promote, manage, and oversee grazing outreach and education programs in Vermont.
Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.
Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.
How this is measured
200 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. 200 of the 531 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Carlos G Otis Health Care Center ↗
- 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 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Catamount Film & Arts Company ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Windham Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Windham Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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