· Private foundation
Vara Educational Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| KILLINGTON SKI CLUB | $1,150 |
| MOUNT MANSFIELD SKI CLUB AND ACADEMY | $1,150 |
| COCHRANS SKI CLUB | $1,150 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL | $1,150 |
| PICO SKI CLUB | $1,150 |
| MIDDLEBURY SKI CLUB | $1,150 |
| BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY | $1,150 |
| SMUGGLERS NOTCH SKI CLUB | $1,150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 15 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BMBURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $8k · revenue +8%
- GMGREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +35%
- PSPICO SKI CLUB INC2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- KMKILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +20%
- SMSTRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +8%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
To provide education instruction to boys and girls in the sport of skiing, physical fitness, leadership and sportsmanship. formal skiing instruction is provided and students participate in skiing related races and events.
Provide ski race training for USAA sanctioned program for 100+ participants (athletes) and sponsor USAA sanctioned races and related services
The Organization operates training programs and facilities at five venues in the Adirondacks and Catskills to provide opportunities for athletes of all ages to reach their potential in snow sports.
Education and training of ski racers
To provide youth with the experience and skills needed to become proficient skiers, snowboarders and nordic athletes. in addition, sars provides appropriate training to junior olympic bound racers.
Promoting youth skiing and racing through coaching, training and events.
Under the auspices of united states ski and snowboard, nyssra fosters well developed programs and athletes by providing the structure, direction, resources and support required for athletes to reach their individual potential without…
Educate and train future ski racing champions. we help alpine ski racers achieve their racing potential through the highest level of physical conditioning, race training and professional coaching.
Big Sky Ski Education Foundation offers competitive Alpine, Freeride, and Nordic skiing programs.
The purpose of the organization is to provide alpine and nordic ski terrain, competition and instruction for the community and children of the area.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 121 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BURKE MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COCHRANS SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds KILLINGTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PICO SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Middlebury Ski Club Inc ↗
- Who funds MT MANSFIELD SKI CLUB AND ACADEMY ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vara Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vara Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Killington Mountain School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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