· Public charity
United Way of Addison County Inc
For 57 years, our mission has been to mobilize the compassion and generosity of individuals and organizations in addison county to improve lives and strengthen the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $791,973 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,025,141 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $233,168 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $375k
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC | $374,698 |
| JOHN GRAHAM EMERGENCY SHELTER | $44,418 |
| HOPE | $28,667 |
| COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON CTY | $23,648 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES OF AC | $22,976 |
| CHARTER HOUSE COALITION | $22,798 |
| TRI-VALLEY TRANSIT | $22,415 |
| ATRIA COLLECTIVE | $22,183 |
| ADDISON HOUSING WORKS | $21,820 |
| VERGENNES COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF | $20,000 |
| THE BRISTOL HUB TEEN CENTER | $19,277 |
| HAVE A HEART FOOD SHELF | $15,000 |
| BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER | $12,394 |
| MARY JOHNSON CHILDREN'S CENTER | $12,371 |
| STARKSBORO COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.6M) 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.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- OCOtter Creek Child Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +660% · 28% of their budget
- MJMary Johnson Children's Center Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $792k · revenue +4%
- TJThe John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $277k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- OEOTHERS5000 EACH- PROGRAM 1one grant, 2017 · $90k
- BRBRISTOL RECREATION DEPARTMENTone grant, 2023 · $14k
- FTFIVE TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +64%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Services of Addison Cty Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Willowell Foundation 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 38 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 Otter Creek Child Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc ↗
- Who funds ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION GRO INC D/B/A HOPE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION ↗
- Who funds Community Health Services of Addison Cty Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-VALLEY TRANSIT INC ↗
- Who funds ATRIA COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ADULT LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds 20 Armory Lane Community After- School Group Incorporated ↗
- Who funds AGE WELL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAYS OF VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds STARKSBORO COOP PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Parent Child Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Elderly Services Inc ↗
- Who funds End of Life Services Inc ↗
- Who funds ADISON ALLIES NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT CENTER OF ADDISON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds The Teen Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Bristol Rec Club ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COME ALIVE OUTSIDE ↗
- Who funds HOMESHARE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE TOWN HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Red Clover Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Middlebury Area Land Trust ↗
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 · Fanny Allen Corporation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation · Hoehl Family Foundation · S & C Harvest Foundation Inc · Vt Association for the Education of Young Children · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Grapevine giving foundation
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 United Way of Addison County Inc 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.
- Atria Collective Inc — 96% of income from government
- Tri-Valley Transit Inc — 81% of income from government
- Vermont Adult Learning Inc — 78% of income from government
- Pathways Vermont Inc — 65% of income from government
- Turning Point Center of Addison County — 62% of income from government
- Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
- Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc — 54% of income from government
- Bristol Family Center — 52% of income from government
- Parent Child Center Inc — 45% of income from government
- Red Clover Childrens Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Homeshare Vermont Inc — 32% of income from government
- Otter Creek Child Center Inc — 32% of income from government
- Starksboro Coop Preschool Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Willowell Foundation Inc — 28% of income from government
- Come Alive Outside — 27% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Elderly Services Inc — 19% of income from government
- Addison County Community Action Gro Inc D/B/a Hope — 18% of income from government
- Five Town Health Alliance Inc — 16% of income from government
- Addison County Community Trust — 16% of income from government
- Middlebury Area Land Trust — 2% of income from government
- Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc — 1% 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.