Vermont · 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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Trout Lily Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $553k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $1.0M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $825k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $374k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $383k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $281k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $188k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $250k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Fletcher Free Library | $250,000 | 2 | 36% |
| Shelburne Farms | $175,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Vermont Humanities Council | $175,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc | $175,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium | $160,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Rokeby Museum | $152,000 | 4 | 17% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Barack Obama Foundation | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Institute for Sustainable Communities | $125,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($261k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Trout Lily Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · 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
How this is measured
About Trout Lily Foundation
- How much does Trout Lily Foundation give?
- Trout Lily Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $1,011,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Trout Lily Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Education (16%), Health (14%).
- Who are Trout Lily Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Friends of the Fletcher Free Library ($250k), Shelburne Farms ($175k), Vermont Humanities Council ($175k).
- Does Trout Lily Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Trout Lily Foundation 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 Trout Lily Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Trout Lily Foundation based?
- Trout Lily Foundation is based in VT.
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