· Private foundation
The Wisdom Connection Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UP FOR LEARNING (UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC) | $22,500 |
| CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY | $20,000 |
| WHOLEHEART INC | $20,000 |
| VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT | $17,500 |
| CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS | $15,000 |
| LUND FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| HARDWICK AREA FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| AWARE | $10,000 |
| GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER (DBA FOUR SEASONS OF EARLY LEARNING) | $9,500 |
| GREENSBORO FREE LIBRARY | $5,400 |
| CIRCUS SMIRKUS (THE CIRCUS BARN INC) | $5,000 |
| VERMONT CHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS | $5,000 |
| GREENSBORO NURSING HOME (GREENSBORO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC) | $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 (FY17–24, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CFCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +619%
- CSCRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue ×31 · 47% of their budget
- HAHARDWICK AREA FOOD PANTRY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +600%
- VFVERMONT FOODBANKgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +35%
- CFCENTER FOR COURAGE AND RENEWALone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
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…
Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving 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.
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
To help small businesses and lower income entrepreneurs prosper through the provision of flexible business financing.
The community justice network of vermont unites the efforts of vermonters seeking to make restorative responses available for people whose lives are
The Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging exists to be a community force in creating and sustaining opportunities for elders and caregivers in our region to help assure that elders are able to maintain maximum independence and quality of…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aware Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 35 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
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 WHOLEHEART INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS INC ↗
- Who funds HARDWICK AREA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds AWARE Inc ↗
- Who funds Lund Family Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATIONINC D/B/A GREENSBORO NURSING HOME ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS BARN INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HYPERBARIC VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds HOME SHARE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
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 · The Stony Point Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Prevot Family Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund · The Allen Hilles Fund · George W Mergens Foundation · J Warren and Lois McClure Foundation
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 Wisdom Connection 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.
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Aware Inc — 58% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Craftsbury Saplings Inc — 40% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation — 8% of income from government
- Craftsbury Community Care Center — 1% of income from government
- Greensboro Free Library — 1% 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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