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Vermont Community Loan Fund

Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont

$57k
Granted FY2022
1
Itemized grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$52k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$52,450
Largest grant, FY2022
$52,450
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$60M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Vermont Community Loan Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY20221$52k100%
FY20213$140k0%
FY20207$217k86%
FY20199$197k78%
FY20182$39k100%
FY20176$201kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$317kEnvironment$178kCommunity Improvement$87kHuman Services$72kEducation$31kYouth Development$22kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Naturepedic$178,3002n/a
Uem Inc$140,0001n/a
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc$109,61423%
Agricultural Digesters LLC$55,8642n/a
Monument Farms Three Gen LLC$52,4501n/a
Crj Consulting Group L3$40,0801n/a
Ne Farm Energy$39,6002n/a
Center for Women & Enterprise Inc$30,00011%
Pownal Preschool Inc$27,1031n/a
Mad River Food Hub$23,2872n/a
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All grantees of Vermont Community Loan Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Naturepedic$178,3002n/a
Uem Inc$140,0001n/a
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc$109,61423%
Agricultural Digesters LLC$55,8642n/a
Monument Farms Three Gen LLC$52,4501n/a
Crj Consulting Group L3$40,0801n/a
Ne Farm Energy$39,6002n/a
Center for Women & Enterprise Inc$30,00011%
Pownal Preschool Inc$27,1031n/a
Mad River Food Hub$23,2872n/a
Georgia's Next Generation LLC$22,0622n/a
Association of Africans Living in Vermont Inc$19,43511%
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and Little Lambs$15,0001n/a
Baby Steps$15,0001n/a
Morristown After School Program$15,0001n/a
Home Away From Home Preschool and Child Care Center Inc$12,41815%
Bridgewater Area Community Foundation Inc$10,00014%
Alliance for a Just Society$10,00010%
Butterfly Bakery of Vermont$9,4891n/a
Connections Early Childhood$8,0341n/a
Early Childhood Professionals Netw$8,0341n/a
Erika Lynch LLC$6,4801n/a

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.

Let's Grow Kids IncVT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Let's Grow Kids Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to Vermont Community Loan Fund?

Find your warmest path to Vermont Community Loan Fund 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.

About Vermont Community Loan Fund

How much does Vermont Community Loan Fund give?
Vermont Community Loan Fund reported 1 itemized grants totaling $52,450, out of $56,850 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Vermont Community Loan Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (37%), Environment (21%), Community Improvement (10%).
Who are Vermont Community Loan Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Naturepedic ($178k), Uem Inc ($140k), Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc ($110k).
Does Vermont Community Loan Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vermont Community Loan Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Let's Grow Kids Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Vermont Community Loan Fund based?
Vermont Community Loan Fund 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 22 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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