How much did THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2019

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2020

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2021

covid reliefgreensboro

2022

—

2023

flood reliefcircus

2024

economy

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

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $40k
$10k–50k9 grants · $135k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

UP FOR LEARNING (UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP FOR LEARNING INC)$22,500
WHOLEHEART INC$20,000
CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY$20,000
VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT$17,500
CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS$15,000
CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER$10,000
HARDWICK AREA FOOD PANTRY$10,000
AWARE$10,000
LUND FAMILY CENTER$10,000
GREENSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER (DBA FOUR SEASONS OF EARLY LEARNING)$9,500
GREENSBORO FREE LIBRARY$5,400
GREENSBORO NURSING HOME (GREENSBORO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC)$5,000
CIRCUS SMIRKUS (THE CIRCUS BARN INC)$5,000
VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS$5,000
VERMONT CHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION$5,000

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, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 21 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%

+17%

Still filing today

57%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

TC
THE CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
7× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +619%
CS
CRAFTSBURY SAPLINGS
7× · 2017–2024 · $97k · revenue +260%
HA
HARDWICK AREA FOOD PANTRY
7× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +71%

Funded once

MF
MONTPELIER FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -92%
VF
VERMONT FOODBANK
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +17%
BR
BEND REVITALIZATION INITIATIVE INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -92%

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.

Vermont Community Loan Fund

Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont

Housing & Shelter

Vermont Farm Bureau Inc

To be the unifying voice of vermont agriculture.

Food & Nutrition

The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect and restore rivers for people and wildlife. conservation work addresses flood resilience and outdoor recreation.

Human Services

Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

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…

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Vermont Employee Ownership Center

To promote and foster employee ownership in Vermont.

Education

Community Capital of Vermont

To help small businesses and lower income entrepreneurs prosper through the provision of flixible business financing.

Community Improvement

Jobs With Justice Inc

The Vermont Workers Center provides technical assistance and information to individuals, groups and organizations. Jobs with Justice educates the public about labor issues.

Employment

Alliance for a Better Vermont

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

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Central Vermont Habitat for

Construction of low income housing

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Vermont Energy Education Program Inc

To build a deep understanding of energy and climate through education, inspiring and empowering people to take action for increased sustainability in our communities, economy and environment.

Education

Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

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

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Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc

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…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Foodbank and the most unlike its peers is Hardwick Area Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

20 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)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

15/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$719,549Human Services$229,000Environment$172,500Food & Nutrition$93,000Philanthropy$70,000Community Improvement$67,500

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT37.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Stony Point Foundation · The Prevot Family Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fund · The Windham Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Norman J Fisher and Doris Fisher · Richard E and Deborah L · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund

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 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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: WHOLEHEART INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 464300314 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 WHOLEHEART INC, 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.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
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 Wisdom Connection Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Wisdom Connection Inc 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.

THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wisdom Connection Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE WISDOM CONNECTION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Wisdom Connection Inc?

More from the funding graph