Vermont · 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.
- $175k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $22,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations The Wisdom Connection Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $175k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $261k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $209k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $195k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $173k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $209k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $135k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wholeheart Inc | $270,200 | 7 | 22% |
| Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc | $112,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Craftsbury Saplings Inc | $97,000 | 7 | 47% |
| Hardwick Area Food Pantry Inc | $83,000 | 7 | 7% |
| AWARE Inc | $77,500 | 7 | 8% |
| Lund Family Center Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Vermont Council on Rural Development Inc | $57,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc | $56,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Craftsbury Community Care Center | $56,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Unleashing the Power of Partnership for Learning Inc | $46,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wisdom Connection Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
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About The Wisdom Connection Inc
- How much does The Wisdom Connection Inc give?
- The Wisdom Connection Inc reported 16 grants totaling $174,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Wisdom Connection Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (20%), Human Services (19%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
- Who are The Wisdom Connection Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wholeheart Inc ($270k), Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc ($112k), Craftsbury Saplings Inc ($97k).
- Does The Wisdom Connection Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wisdom Connection Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wisdom Connection Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, The Stony Point Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Wisdom Connection Inc based?
- The Wisdom Connection Inc is based in VT.
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