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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FRIENDS OF THE FLETCHER LEE LIBRARY INC$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND$50,000
CHITTENDEN COMMUNITY TELEVISION$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
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$25,000
BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION$25,000
KING STREET CENTER INC$25,000
VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL$25,000
FAIRBANKS MUSEUM AND PLANETARIUM$25,000
ROKEBY MUSEUM$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUND FAMILY CENTER INC: $9k → 10%RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 9%LUND FAMILY CENTER INC: $9k → 10%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 9%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%SPECTRUM INC: $10k → 10%SPECTRUM INC: $10k → 10%ASSOC OF AFRICANS LIVING IN VERMONT: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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%
+4%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +50%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue +40%

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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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…

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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.

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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…

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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,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Council On the Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
33/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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, 5.5% 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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 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
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.

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.

The Vermont Community…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…National Life Group C…The Windham Foundatio…United Way of Northwe…Oakland Foundation IncGeorge W Mergens Foun…Lintilhac Foundation …Vermont Council on th…Vermont Humanities Co…L Z Francis Foundatio…The Onda Foundation I…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Trout Lily Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trout Lily Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • 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
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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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