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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.

$385k
Granted FY2026still arriving
25
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.2MHuman Services$897kArts & Culture$620kEducation$467kHealth$252kCrime & Legal$177kHousing & Shelter$102kEnvironment$94kOther$0
02FY2026 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $343,782, the rows itemized in this filing. The $385,163 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $41,381 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRADFORD TEEN CENTER$50,000
OUTRIGHT VERMONT$24,220
PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VT$23,550
FLORDIA SCHOOL OF HOLIS LVNG$15,000
GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA$14,707
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB BRATTLEBORO$14,550
VERMONT FARMERS FOOD CENTER$12,750
RIVER GALLERY SCHOOL OF ART$12,750
BONNYVALE ENV ED CTR$12,750
NE VERMONT REG HOSPITAL$12,750
DREAM PROGRAM$12,750
VERY MERRY THEATRE$12,750
KING STREET CENTER$12,750
YOUTH FIRST MENTORING$11,475
FRANKLIN GRND ISLE BOOKMOBILE$10,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $537k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 9%SAFE ART INC: $12k → 10%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 9%ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE: $10k → 11%LAMOILLE FAMILY CTR: $10k → 9%NFI VERMONT INC: $10k → 10%SAFEART INC: $10k → 10%LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 9%Washington County Youth Services Bureau: $25k → 9%Changing Perspectives: $10k → 10%Lamoille Family Center: $7k → 9%Changing Perspectives: $9k → 10%Changing Perspectives: $7k → 10%RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 14%Project Against Violent Encounters: $7k → 11%Mary Johnson Children's Center: $9k → 9%RUTLAND CTY PARENT CHILD CTR: $10k → 12%Mary Johnson Children's Center: $7k → 9%Mary Johnson Children's Center: $6k → 9%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $15k → 10%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%JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $10k → 10%GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT: $6k → 9%JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $10k → 10%GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT: $6k → 9%JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $10k → 10%Good Beginnings of Central Vermont: $6k → 9%GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT: $5k → 9%HOWARD CENTER: $10k → 10%WE R HOPE: $8k → 9%ROBINS NEST CHILDRENS CTR: $10k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $9k → 10%Greater Burlington YMCA: $8k → 10%Howard Center: $7k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE: $15k → 10%VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK: $14k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE: $13k → 10%CHILD CARE RESOURCE: $11k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 92 repeat orgs$893k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

92 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2026, 68 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
91

Total granted

$3.8M
$883k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
0%

Still filing today

51%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OV
    OUTRIGHT VERMONT
    10× · 2017–2026 · $233k · revenue +770%
  • EW
    EVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC
    9× · 2017–2026 · $134k · revenue +55%
  • VM
    VERY MERRY THEATRE
    9× · 2017–2026 · $111k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • MC
    MTN COMMUNITIES SUPPORT ED
    one grant, 2025 · $25k
  • VF
    VERMONT FARM-TO-SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +12%
  • LI
    LYNDON INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Stepping Stones Preschool

The purpose of Steppings Stones Preschool is to promote the social, emotional, and intellectual development of children in the preschool and kindergarden age group. We provide a high-quality, play-based curriculum designed by integrating…

Education
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.

—
5
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
6
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
7
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
8
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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9
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. During the fiscal year ending 6/30/2026, VCTF funded 48 programs a…

Philanthropy
10
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
11
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 185 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
55/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+126 more: $2,585,772 · Other+126 moreCHANGING PERSPECTIVES: $92,175 · Human ServicesCHANGING PERSPEC…KING STREET CENTER INC: $57,750 · Human ServicesKING STREET CENT…Orange County Parent Child Center Inc: $56,000 · Human ServicesOrange County Pa…VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC: $54,999 · Human ServicesVERMONT FAMILY N…GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT: $49,292 · Human ServicesGOOD BEGINNINGS …LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC: $46,500 · Human ServicesLAMOILLE FAMILY …GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $46,432 · Human ServicesGREATER BURLINGT…CHILD CARE RESOURCE: $38,550 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE RESOU…STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $37,407 · Human ServicesSTEPS TO END DOM…Janet Munt Family Room: $30,000 · Human ServicesELEVATE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $26,934 · Human Services+13 more: $162,969 · Human Services+13 moreEVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC: $134,195 · Youth DevelopmentEVERYBODY WINS…The Teen Center Inc: $99,948 · Youth DevelopmentThe Teen Cente…THE MENTOR CONNECTOR INC: $72,430 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MENTOR CON…THE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC: $60,580 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NEW ENGLAN…Bradford Teen Center Inc: $59,100 · Youth DevelopmentBradford Teen …THE DREAM PROGRAM INC: $55,038 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DREAM PROG…Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc: $41,793 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls…+7 more: $96,698 · Youth Development+7 moreVERY MERRY THEATRE: $111,018 · 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 & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $233,008 · Public Safety & DisasterARTS BUS INC: $76,000 · EducationVERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER: $27,750 · EducationTHE SHARON ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · EducationLYNDON INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · 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: $56,470 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC: $38,588 · Health
Other$2,585,772Human Services$699,008Youth Development$619,782Arts & Culture$305,186Public Safety & Disaster$233,008Education$190,700Health$95,058

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT: $233,008 over 10y, 3.5% of budgetEVERYBODY WINS VERMONT INC: $134,195 over 9y, 11% of budgetVERY MERRY THEATRE: $111,018 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetThe Teen Center Inc: $99,948 over 9y, 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 budgetINTERACTION INC: $69,387 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC: $60,580 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetKING STREET CENTER INC: $57,750 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMOONRISE THERAPEUTICS: $56,470 over 5y, 3.7% 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 budgetGOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT: $49,292 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $47,431 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC: $46,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $46,432 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetBoys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc: $41,793 over 4y, 1.3% 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 budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCE: $38,550 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSecond Growth Inc: $38,550 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetDAD GUILD INC: $38,300 over 3y, 6.4% 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 budgetJanet Munt Family Room: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% 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 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 budgetLYNDON INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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 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 INTERACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds Bradford Teen Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MOONRISE THERAPEUTICS ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Parent Child Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE DREAM PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc ↗
  • Who funds RICHFORD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS OF BURLINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCE ↗
  • Who funds Second Growth Inc ↗

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 185 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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