· Private foundation
Trout Lily Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $716k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT LAW SCHOOL INC | $60,000 |
| CHITTENDEN COMMUNITY TELEVISION | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER LEE LIBRARY INC | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $50,000 |
| HUNGER FREE VERMONT | $50,000 |
| APPALACHIAN VOICES | $35,000 |
| PRESIDENT&FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| WATERBURY AREA MAKERSPHERE COOPERATIVE | $30,000 |
| BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FUND | $25,000 |
| FAIRBANKS MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM | $25,000 |
| VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| FAIRBANKS MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM | $25,000 |
| BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| KING STREET CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $406k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 14 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue ×20 · 36% of their budget
SHELBURNE FARMS3× · 2019–2022 · $175k · revenue +257%- VHVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL3× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTone grant, 2022 · $83k
- NVNORTHEASTERN VT REGIONAL CORPone grant, 2021 · $28k
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AIDone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -14%
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.
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.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
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The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
We nurture the economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity of people, businesses, organizations and communities in vermont for the benefit and well-being of all who live here.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.
Rooted in vermont since 1977, the vermont land trust unites land and lives for the enduring benefit of people and the place we share. we help people protect, care for, and connect to land. this includes the farms, forests, natural areas,…
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…
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Council On the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Greenfield Review Literary Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 64 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 FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds Rokeby Museum ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Chittenden Community Television ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Law School ↗
- Who funds THE ORION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY AREA MAKERSPHERE COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Yestermorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds HINESBURG COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds Lund Family Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Forest Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds VERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN 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 · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Vermont Humanities Council · L Z Francis Foundation Ima · The Onda Foundation Inc
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 Trout Lily Foundation 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.
- Institute for Sustainable Communities — 100% of income from government
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Vermont Works for Women Inc — 52% of income from government
- Hope Works Inc — 49% of income from government
- Mosaic Vermont Inc — 44% of income from government
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Vermont Council On the Arts Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc — 17% of income from government
- Champlain Housing Trust — 15% of income from government
- Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc — 14% of income from government
- Chittenden Community Television — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Vermont Parks Forever Inc — 8% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Copley Hospital 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.