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Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation

VCTF works to ensure the well-being of children and families in Vermont by raising private money to fund prevention programs for children and families throughout Vermont.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$1.2MHuman Services$897kArts & Culture$620kEducation$467kHealth$252kCrime & Legal$177kHousing & Shelter$102kEnvironment$94kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 68 grants below total $966,738 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,003,536 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,798 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 · $47k
  • $10k–50k61 grants · $865k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$12,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORANGE CTY PARENT CHILD CTR$55,000
PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VT$27,750
OUTRIGHT VERMONT$27,750
CHANDLER CTR FOR THE ARTS$26,175
Individual grant recipient$25,000
MTN COMMUNITIES SUPPORT ED$25,000
LYNDON INSTITUTE$20,000
DAD GUILD$19,350
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB BRATTLEBORO$15,000
INCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC$15,000
VERMONT FARMERS FOOD CENTER$15,000
CHANGING PERSPECTIVES$15,000
GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA$15,000
VERY MERRY THEATRE$15,000
SAGE MT BOTANICAL SANCTUARY$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $507k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 9%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 9%SAFE ART INC: $12k → 10%Capstone Community Action: $5k → 9%ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE: $10k → 11%SAFEART INC: $10k → 10%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 9%Washington County Youth Services Bureau: $25k → 9%NFI VERMONT INC: $10k → 10%Changing Perspectives: $10k → 10%LAMOILLE FAMILY CTR: $10k → 9%Changing Perspectives: $9k → 10%Lamoille Family Center: $7k → 9%Changing Perspectives: $7k → 10%RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 14%Project Against Violent Encounters: $7k → 11%RUTLAND CTY PARENT CHILD CTR: $10k → 12%Mary Johnson Children's Center: $9k → 9%Mary Johnson Children's Center: $7k → 9%Mary Johnson Children's Center: $6k → 9%RUTLAND CTY PARENT CHILD CTR: $10k → 12%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $15k → 10%ORANGE CTY PARENT CHILD CTR: $55k → 10%Mountain Communities Supporting Education: $9k → 11%GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT: $7k → 9%GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT: $7k → 9%Good Beginnings of Central Vermont: $6k → 9%GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT: $6k → 9%JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $10k → 10%GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT: $6k → 9%Good Beginnings of Central Vermont: $6k → 9%JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $10k → 10%GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT: $5k → 9%WE R HOPE: $8k → 9%JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $10k → 10%HOWARD CENTER: $10k → 10%ROBINS NEST CHILDRENS CTR: $10k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $9k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $8k → 10%Howard Center: $7k → 10%Milton Family Community Center: $4k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE: $15k → 10%VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK: $14k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE: $13k → 10%VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK: $10k → 10%VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK: $10k → 10%VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK: $10k → 10%VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 84 repeat orgs$989k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

84 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
64

Total granted

$3.4M
$543k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+12%

Still filing today

54%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $446k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • OV
    OUTRIGHT VERMONT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $209k · revenue +770%
  • EW
    EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +55%
  • VM
    VERY MERRY THEATRE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • VF
    VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +12%
  • WC
    Windham Child Care Assoc
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • VO
    VILLAGE OF ENOSBURG FALLS
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Vermont Center for Family Studies

Our mission is to strengthen families and communities by improving human relationships. We do this through the training of expert family therapists, advisors, leaders, and family members in Bowen Family Systems Theory.

Human Services
2
Woodstock Community Playschool Inc Dba Rainbow Playschool

Rainbow Playschool is a nonprofit organization in the foothills of Mt. Tom in Woodstock, Vermont. We provide daycare and preschool services, emphasizing play and outdoor education, to children between the ages of 6 weeks and 5 years old.…

Human Services
3
Northshire Day School

The Northshire Day School is a 5 STAR, licensed non-profit early childhood education program which serves regional families with children zero to five.

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4
Voices for Vermonts Children

To promote public policy that enhances the lives of children and youth in vermont.

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5
Mountain Village Charter School

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.

Education
6
The Bridge School inc

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…

Education
7
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
8
Vermont Achievement Center Inc

Through flexible, diverse and responsive programs, vermont achievement center, inc. (vac) provides a foundation of life skills to prepare individuals to reach their full potential as contributing members of society. all people are capable…

Education
9
Governor's Institutes of Vermont

Giv empowers young people with intensive, hands-on learning experiences in college settings which inspire their academic and creative passions, build confidence and leadership, and expand their sense of possibility.

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10
Watch Them Grow Childcare Center

Watch Them Grow Children's Center's mission is to provide the highest quality care at an affordable rate for the families in our community. We strive to offer as many educational opportunities as possible for the early childhood and school…

Human Services
11
Stepping Stones Preschool

The purpose of stepping stones preschool is to promote the social, emotional, and intellectual development of children in the preschool and kindergarten age group. we provide a high-quality, play-based curriculum designed by integrating…

Education
12
The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc

A PreK childcare center and KG-Grade 8 school that values each students unique learning experience, fostering academic excellence, emotional intelligence, and social and environmental justice through five core concepts trust, sharing,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nek Community Growth Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Healthcare Networ…Independent Elementary Scho…Disability & Family Support…Youth Sports ProgramsEarly Childhood Education C…Public LibrariesBehavioral Health and Disab…Affordable Housing Developm…Vermont Education AdvocacyHealthcare Network Organiza…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%11%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr20%28%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr17%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%7%<5yr12%13%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr20%29%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr17%6%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/90
the rest of the field
9%
359/4,162

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.

04the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 184 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/83
Grantees still filing
54/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT — $83,835 · Other+124 more — $2,342,932 · Other+124 moreCHANGING PERSPECTIVES — $92,175 · Human ServicesCHANGING PERSPEC…Orange County Parent Child Center Inc — $56,000 · Human ServicesOrange County Pa…VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC — $54,999 · Human ServicesVERMONT FAMILY N…LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC — $46,500 · Human ServicesLAMOILLE FAMILY …KING STREET CENTER INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesKING STREET CENT…GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT — $44,067 · Human ServicesGOOD BEGINNINGS …STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $37,407 · Human ServicesSTEPS TO END DOM…GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC — $31,725 · Human ServicesJanet Munt Family Room — $30,000 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE RESOURCE — $27,750 · Human ServicesELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC — $26,934 · Human ServicesSAFEART INC — $22,000 · Human Services+12 more — $140,969 · Human Services+12 moreEVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC — $123,395 · Youth DevelopmentEVERYBODY WIN…The Teen Center Inc — $94,523 · Youth DevelopmentThe Teen Cent…THE MENTOR CONNECTOR INC — $72,430 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MENTOR CO…THE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC — $60,580 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NEW ENGLA…THE DREAM PROGRAM INC — $55,038 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DREAM PRO…Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc — $27,243 · Youth DevelopmentEssex Chips Inc — $19,625 · Youth Development+7 more — $86,173 · Youth Development+7 moreVERY MERRY THEATRE — $98,268 · Arts & CultureINCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC — $73,268 · Arts & CultureCHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $46,175 · Arts & CultureSafer Society Foundation Inc — $25,725 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 — $15,000 · Arts & CultureONE ARTS INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureSheldon Art Museum Archaeological and Historical Society Inc — $12,000 · Arts & CultureRIVER ARTS OF MORRISVILLE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $208,788 · Public Safety & DisasterARTS BUS INC — $76,000 · EducationLYNDON INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 · EducationTHE SHARON ACADEMY INC — $20,000 · EducationVERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER — $15,000 · EducationSAFELINE INC — $12,000 · EducationEDUCATION JUSTICE COALITION OF VT — $12,000 · EducationWINSTON PROUTY CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT — $11,250 · EducationNEK Community Growth Center — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $1,700 · EducationMOONRISE THERAPEUTICS — $45,670 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC — $38,588 · Health
Other$2,426,767Human Services$655,526Youth Development$539,007Arts & Culture$292,436Public Safety & Disaster$208,788Education$177,950Health$84,258

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $208,788 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetEVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC — $123,395 over 8y, 11% of budgetVERY MERRY THEATRE — $98,268 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetThe Teen Center Inc — $94,523 over 8y, 19% of budgetCHANGING PERSPECTIVES — $92,175 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT — $83,835 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetARTS BUS INC — $76,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetINCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC — $73,268 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetTHE MENTOR CONNECTOR INC — $72,430 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC — $60,580 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetINTERACTION INC — $58,587 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetOrange County Parent Child Center Inc — $56,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE DREAM PROGRAM INC — $55,038 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetVERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC — $54,999 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $47,431 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC — $46,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $46,175 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE INC — $45,870 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMOONRISE THERAPEUTICS — $45,670 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT — $44,067 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetRICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC — $40,280 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC — $38,588 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $37,407 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $36,926 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC — $31,725 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDAD GUILD INC — $30,350 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSecond Growth Inc — $27,750 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCE — $27,750 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc — $27,243 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBurlington Childrens Space — $27,199 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC — $26,934 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSafer Society Foundation Inc — $25,725 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSAFEART INC — $22,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetMary Johnson Children's Center Inc — $21,330 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRutland County Parent Child Center Inc — $21,259 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLYNDON INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUTLAND MAKERS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE SHARON ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEssex Chips Inc — $19,625 over 2y, 8.9% of budget20 Armory Lane Community After- School Group Incorporated — $17,945 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWindsor County Mentors Inc — $17,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetHowardCenter Inc — $16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFINDING OUR STRIDE — $13,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetONE ARTS INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
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 OUTRIGHT VERMONT ↗
  • Who funds EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds VERY MERRY THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds The Teen Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ↗
  • Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT ↗
  • Who funds ARTS BUS INC ↗
  • Who funds INCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MENTOR CONNECTOR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Parent Child Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DREAM PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOONRISE THERAPEUTICS ↗
  • Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT ↗
  • Who funds RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗

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.

The Vermont Community…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Vermont Afterschool I…George W Mergens Foun…National Life Group C…Agnes M Lindsay TrustThe Windham Foundatio…Vermont Council on th…Price Chopper's Golub…United Way of Northwe…Community Bank Na Fou…The Couch Family Foun…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT122.1× affinity71 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Vermont Afterschool Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Windham Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · The Couch Family 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 Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Project Against Violent Encounters — 100% of income from government
  • Winooski Partnership for Prevention Inc — 90% of income from government
  • Elevate Youth Services Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
  • Vermont Family Network Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Arlington Area Childcare Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Rutland County — 72% of income from government
  • Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc — 71% of income from government
  • Interaction Inc — 70% of income from government
  • Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
  • Milton Family Community Center Inc — 65% of income from government
  • Safeline Inc — 64% of income from government
  • Orange County Parent Child Center Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Dad Guild Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Prevent Child Abuse Vermont — 58% of income from government
  • Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Burlington Childrens Space — 53% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Clarina Howard Nichols Center Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Robins Nest Children's Center — 51% of income from government
  • Rutland County Parent Child Center Inc — 50% of income from government
  • One Arts Inc — 48% of income from government
  • Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
  • King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Child Care Resource — 43% of income from government
  • The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
  • Lamoille Family Center Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Otter Creek Child Center Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Come Alive Outside — 27% of income from government
  • Quarry Hill School Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Essex Chips Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Richford Health Center Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Local Motion Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Community Health Centers of Burlington Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
  • Education Justice Coalition of Vt — 9% of income from government
  • HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Vermont Farm-to-School Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Lyndon Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Chandler Center for the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
  • St Albans Free Library — 0% of income from government
  • Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Common Roots Inc — 0% of income from government
  • We R Hope — 0% of income from government
  • River Arts of Morrisville Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Sharon Academy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
21rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 184 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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