· Private foundation
Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering 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 |
|---|---|
| Essex Westford Educational Communit | $2,987 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Lyndon Institute | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| River Valley Technical Center | $2,000 |
| Champlain Valley School District | $1,808 |
| Friends of the Fletcher Free Library Inc | $1,500 |
| The Hack Foundation | $1,500 |
| Archytas Education Corp | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Harwood Unified Union School District | $1,500 |
| Univ of Vermont 4H Program Inc | $1,500 |
| Milton Town School District | $1,500 |
| Southwest Vermont Union Elementary School District | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 11 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LILYNDON INSTITUTE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +12%
- VFVERMONT FARM AND FOREST2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +30%
- TSThe Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- RCRutland City Public Schoolsone grant, 2024 · $4k
- TOTEAMS OF INNOVATIVE PROBLEM SOLVERSone grant, 2021 · $3k
- SBSOUTH BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $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.
The Bridge School is a state approved independent Elementary school located in Middlebury, VT. Small by design, Bridge School accepts up to 50 preK-6th grade students annually to ensure students build strong relationships with peers and…
Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.
Maple Street School is a joyful academic community that cultivates personal and social responsibility. We nurture intellectual and creative growth through an engaging curriculum. Our culture of respect inspires confident learners.
We are a private, independent school whose mission is to provide each child the educational opportunity to discover, with perseverance and imagination, the joy of learning and the interconnectedness of our world. Our vision is to bring…
Our mission at The Farmington Valley Academy Montessori is to offer an excellent education characterized by intellectual rigor combined with personal warmth. Dr. Maria Montessori's principles and the insights and ideas of other gifted…
Private school
To create, nurture, and maintain a healthy, thriving and affordable secondary education program out of an anthroposophically based picture of the threefold human being (body, soul, and spirit) that will serve interested families and their…
We are a collaboration of colleges and universities specializing in professional development for middle school educators. designed for aspiring and practicing teachers of 10-15 year olds, our organization offers conferences, journals,…
Foxcroft's mission is to help every girl explore her unique voice and to develop the skills, confidence, and courage to share it with the world with emphasis on Our Values of Respect, Integrity, Kindness, Service.
Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…
The Shelburne Craft School's mission is to inspire individual creativity by providing hands-on education in craft and art.
To provide an intellectually enriching college-preparatory curriculum in a supportive, caring environment to foster in each student a lifelong commitment to excellence.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 100 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.
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Farm and Forest: 20% of income from government
- The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc: 13% of income from government
- Lyndon Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Academy: 3% of income from government
- Burr & Burton Seminary: 2% of income from government
- Thetford Academy: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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