· Private foundation
Thomas Thompson Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $528k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $443k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN DUCHESS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $68,000 |
| RESCUE INC | $50,000 |
| BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| WINDHAM COUNTY DENTAL CENTER | $40,000 |
| WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT | $25,000 |
| UPSTATE FILMS | $25,000 |
| WILDERSTEIN PRESERVATION | $25,000 |
| STARR INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATRE | $23,000 |
| BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE | $20,000 |
| SOUTHEAST VERMONT TRANSIT INC | $20,000 |
| ST BRIGID'S KITCHEN & PANTRY | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 17 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $345k 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
- BMBrattleboro Memorial Hospital5× · 2021–2025 · $946k · revenue +23%
- NDNorthern Dutchess Hospital2× · 2023–2024 · $286k · revenue +19%
- NFNDH Foundation2× · 2021–2022 · $180k · revenue +149%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INCone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -54% · 27% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- VCVERMONT CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.
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 support artists and writers by providing studio residencies in an inclusive international community, honoring creative work as the communication of spirit through form.
Listener-supported Vermont Public Radio has been serving the people of Vermont and the surrounding region since 1977. As Vermonts only statewide public radio network, VPR provides an essential and trusted independent voice for news,…
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…
The Addison County Chamber of Commerce mission is to enhance the economic vitality of Addison County.
A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire
Provide quality, nutritious and creative meals to individuals age sixty years and older; as well as, disabled residents of Bennington County, Vermont. This is accomplished through a community meal program and home deliveries to those…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rebuilding Together Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harris Hill Ski Jump Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
87 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. 87 of the 122 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 Brattleboro Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds Northern Dutchess Hospital ↗
- Who funds NDH Foundation ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM COUNTY DENTAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP FOR DUTCHESS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRATTLEBORO MUTUAL AID ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURECONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds RHINEBECK PARK FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Wilderstein Preservation ↗
- Who funds WINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FILMS LTD ↗
- Who funds INTERACTION INC ↗
- Who funds BRATTLEBORO AREA HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Turning Point of Windam County ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds River Gallery School Inc ↗
- Who funds RHINEBECK COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RETREAT FARM LTD ↗
- Who funds NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEALTH AND LEARNING LTD ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds GARDEN PATH ELDER LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds BROAD BROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED HOOK COMMUNITY CENTER 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 Windham Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 · Periwinkle Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · Frost Memorial Fund Inc · David Greenewalt Charitable Trust Geoffrey M Mason Trustee
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 Thomas Thompson Trust 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.
- Center for Health and Learning Ltd — 100% of income from government
- Greater Falls Community Justice Center — 98% of income from government
- Turning Point of Windam County — 83% of income from government
- Groundworks Collaborative Inc — 73% of income from government
- Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
- Southeast Vermont Transit Inc — 61% of income from government
- Green Mountain Conservancy Incorporated — 49% of income from government
- United Way of Windham County Inc — 26% of income from government
- Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
- Out in the Open Inc — 25% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Brattleboro Housing Opportunities Inc — 22% of income from government
- Food Connects — 15% of income from government
- Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 15% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Downtown Brattleboro Alliance Inc — 9% of income from government
- Parks Place Community Center — 8% of income from government
- Rescue Inc — 7% of income from government
- Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
- Historical Society of Windham County Inc — 6% of income from government
- New England Center for Circus Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brattleboro Memorial Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Windham County Dental Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Garden Path Elder Living Inc — 0% of income from government
- Brattleboro Retreat — 0% of income from government
- Friends of Vernon Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Theatre Adventure Inc — 0% 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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