· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HARDWICK AREA FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| CRAFTSBURY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $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 YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS | $5,000 |
| VERMONT CHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREENSBORO NURSING HOME (GREENSBORO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC) | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
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
How this is measured
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%
- VWVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +54%
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.
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…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 35 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
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 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 VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HYPERBARIC VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOME SHARE NOW INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wisdom Connection Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wisdom Connection Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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