Vermont · Private foundation
Vara Educational Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 85%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,350
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $666k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 85% of the organizations Vara Educational Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 31 | $44k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $45k | 85% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $30k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $24k | 76% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $16k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burke Mountain Academy Inc | $8,375 | 2 | 0% |
| Green Mountain Valley School Inc | $7,050 | 2 | 0% |
| Cochrans Ski Club Inc | $4,700 | 2 | 1% |
| Killington Mountain School Inc | $4,050 | 1 | 0% |
| Pico Ski Club Inc | $3,700 | 2 | 1% |
| Stratton Mountain School | $2,725 | 1 | 0% |
| Middlebury Ski Club Inc | $2,250 | 2 | 1% |
| Mt Mansfield Ski Club and Academy | $1,650 | 2 | 0% |
| Killington Ski Club Inc | $1,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Bromley Outing Club Inc | $1,100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 111 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vara Educational Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Vara Educational Foundation Inc
- How much does Vara Educational Foundation Inc give?
- Vara Educational Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $43,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Vara Educational Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Human Services (28%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
- Who are Vara Educational Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Burke Mountain Academy Inc ($8k), Green Mountain Valley School Inc ($7k), Cochrans Ski Club Inc ($5k).
- Does Vara Educational Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 85% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vara Educational Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vara Educational Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Vara Educational Foundation Inc based?
- Vara Educational Foundation Inc is based in VT.
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