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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 FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Arts & Culture$1.0MEducation$522kHealth$468kEnvironment$348kFood & Nutrition$315kHuman Services$179kPublic Benefit$140kYouth Development$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

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
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 10%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 9%LUND FAMILY CENTER INC: $9k → 10%RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%LUND FAMILY CENTER INC: $9k → 10%LUND FAMILY CENTER INC: $3k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY: $200k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER LEE LIBRARY INC: $50k → 10%RESOURCE: $50k → 10%ASSOC OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT: $10k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $10k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $10k → 10%RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $20k → 10%RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 32 repeat orgs$554k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
18

Total granted

$2.8M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

97%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue ×20 · 36% of their budget
  • SHELBURNE FARMS
    3× · 2019–2022 · $175k · revenue +257%
  • VH
    VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
    one grant, 2022 · $83k
  • NV
    NORTHEASTERN VT REGIONAL CORP
    one grant, 2021 · $28k
  • AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Vermont Public Co

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
3
Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies Inc

Vcet's purpose is to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship across vermont. this is accomplished by providing expert mentoring and technical assistance, the operation of coworking/incubation facilities and the operation of early stage…

Community Improvement
4
Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc

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…

5
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc

The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.

Environment
6
Vermont Trails & Greenways Council

To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.

Environment
7
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc

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.

Employment
8
The Vermont Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
9
Vermont Business Roundtable Inc

To sustain a sound economy and preserve vermont's unique quality of life by studying and making recommendations on statewide public policy issues.

10
Vermont Land Trust Inc

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,…

Environment
11
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

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…

12
Vermont Public Radio

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic Library SupportPregnancy Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Government Accountability R…Food Pantries & AssistanceSouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Child and Family ServicesLgbtq+ Community CentersLand Conservation Organizat…Native Hawaiian Community D…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Community Health CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Cancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%2%<5yr12%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr16%41%35–55yr17%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr20%25%20–35yr16%41%35–55yr17%26%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
8%
489/6,056

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATIO…FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM — $160,000 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUMRokeby Museum — $152,000 · Arts & CultureRokeby MuseumTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $130,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD — $100,000 · Arts & CultureFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMIN…Chittenden Community Television — $75,000 · Arts & CultureChittenden Community Televisio…HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE — $35,000 · Arts & CultureYestermorrow Inc — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $35,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $175,000 · OtherVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCILUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT — $82,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $80,000 · OtherVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INCVERMONT WOMEN'S FUND — $42,500 · OtherVERMONT WOMEN'S FUNDHINESBURG COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $30,000 · OtherNORTHEASTERN VT REGIONAL CORP — $28,000 · OtherVERMONT FOODBANK — $70,000 · OtherVERMONT FOODBANKHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC — $50,000 · OtherHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC+16 more — $215,500 · Other+16 moreFRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY — $250,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE F…RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE A NONPR…KING STREET CENTER INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesKING STREET CENT…Lund Family Center Inc — $21,000 · Human ServicesSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $30,000 · Human Services+3 moreSHELBURNE FARMS — $175,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FA…APPALACHIAN VOICES — $125,000 · EnvironmentAPPALACHIAN …THE ORION SOCIETY INC — $70,000 · EnvironmentTHE ORION SO…+1 more — $2,500 · EnvironmentPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $175,000 · HealthPlanned Pare…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $150,000 · HealthDana-Farber …+5 more — $40,000 · Health+5 moreVermont Law School — $70,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $63,000 · EducationWATERBURY AREA MAKERSPHERE COOPERATIVE INC — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $33,500 · EducationNorthern Forest Center Inc — $20,000 · EducationCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $15,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES — $125,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 · International+1 more — $5,000 · International
Arts & Culture$892,000Other$773,500Human Services$481,000Environment$372,500Health$365,000Education$251,500International$215,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER FREE LIBRARY — $250,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $175,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $175,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetFAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM — $160,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetRokeby Museum — $152,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES — $125,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAPPALACHIAN VOICES — $125,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC — $85,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetChittenden Community Television — $75,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVermont Law School — $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ORION SOCIETY INC — $70,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $63,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWATERBURY AREA MAKERSPHERE COOPERATIVE INC — $50,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC SARANAC LAKE — $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $33,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYestermorrow Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHINESBURG COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $30,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLund Family Center Inc — $21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNorthern Forest Center Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHAMPLAIN HOUSING TRUST — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT WORKS FOR WOMEN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GREENFIELD REVIEW LITERARY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCopley Hospital Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE WORKS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOSAIC VERMONT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOODRICH MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT70.9× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

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202122232425
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities100% of income from government
  • Capstone Community Action Inc84% of income from government
  • Vermont Humanities Council67% of income from government
  • Vermont Works for Women Inc52% of income from government
  • Hope Works Inc49% of income from government
  • Mosaic Vermont Inc44% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc43% of income from government
  • Lund Family Center Inc34% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc24% of income from government
  • Vermont Council On the Arts Inc20% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc17% of income from government
  • Champlain Housing Trust15% of income from government
  • Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc14% of income from government
  • Chittenden Community Television14% of income from government
  • Vermont Law School14% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank13% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont13% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc13% of income from government
  • Vermont Parks Forever Inc8% of income from government
  • Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc7% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc6% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc2% of income from government
  • The Orion Society Inc2% of income from government
  • Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc2% of income from government
  • Vermont Studio Center Inc2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College1% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center1% of income from government
  • Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated0% of income from government
  • Copley Hospital Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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