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Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
80%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,987
Organizations funded a year
12 to 32
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$15k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$36k46%
FY202430$52k80%
FY202332$43k75%
FY202212$13k58%
FY202120$24k75%
FY202019$19kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$109kScience & Tech$60kCommunity Improvement$6kYouth Development$5kEmployment$4kArts & Culture$2kMembership Benefit$2kPublic Benefit$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Champlain Valley School District$6,9084n/a
River Valley Technical Center$6,5004n/a
Harwood Unified Union School District$5,8772n/a
Rutland Area Robotics Inc$5,00032%
Lyndon Institute Inc$4,73320%
Archytas Education Corp$3,8003n/a
Windham Southeast School District$3,3463n/a
Milton Town School District$3,3003n/a
Teams of Innovative Problem Solvers$3,0001n/a
The Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club$3,00020%
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All grantees of Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Champlain Valley School District$6,9084n/a
River Valley Technical Center$6,5004n/a
Harwood Unified Union School District$5,8772n/a
Rutland Area Robotics Inc$5,00032%
Lyndon Institute Inc$4,73320%
Archytas Education Corp$3,8003n/a
Windham Southeast School District$3,3463n/a
Milton Town School District$3,3003n/a
Teams of Innovative Problem Solvers$3,0001n/a
The Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club$3,00020%
Vermont Farm and Forest$3,00020%
South Burlington School District$3,0001n/a
The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc$2,42530%
Friends of the Fletcher Free Library$2,30021%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College$2,2901n/a
Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union$2,0002n/a
St Johnsbury Academy$1,47610%
Rural Arts Collaborative Inc$1,00010%
Thetford Academy$1,00010%
Btv Ignite Inc$1,00011%
Burr & Burton Seminary$1,00010%
Middlebury Community TV$1,00011%
Vermont Day School Inc$80010%
Winooski School District$8001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRutland Area Robotics Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetLyndon Institute Inc: $4,733 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Farm and Forest: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc: $2,425 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Fletcher Free Library: $2,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSt Johnsbury Academy: $1,476 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRural Arts Collaborative Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThetford Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBtv Ignite Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBurr & Burton Seminary: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiddlebury Community TV: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVermont Day School Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Vermont Energy Investment CorporationVT32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vermont Energy Investment Corporation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Stern Center for Language and Learning · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc

How much does Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc give?
Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc reported 24 grants totaling $36,245 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Science & Tech (32%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Champlain Valley School District ($7k), River Valley Technical Center ($7k), Harwood Unified Union School District ($6k).
Does Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, The Vermont Community Foundation, Stern Center for Language and Learning.
Where is Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc based?
Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc is based in VT.

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 100 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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