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VERMONT COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENTAL
The VERMONT COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENTAL and mental health services promotes a statewide, non-profit system of developmental and behavioral health care for people with developmental disabilities, serious and persistant mental illness, substance abuse and children experiencing severe emotional disturbance, as well as their familes.
$1.2M
Granted FY2023
11
Grants
1
Communities
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $893k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
$79,280
Median grant
1
States reached
$762k
Total assets
Largest grants
- HOWARD CENTER$300,482
- NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUP$206,611
- WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HLTH$197,052
- HEALTH CARE & REHAB SERVICES$99,084
- COUNSELNG SRV OF ADDISON CNTY$85,025
- LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH$79,280
- CLARA MARTIN CENTER$66,000
- UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE$55,730
- NFI VERMONT$54,065
- RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE$50,000
- NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERV$38,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Vermont Psychological Services
Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behvaior & psychological problems.
Health
2
North Central Mental Health Services Inc
To provide mental health and drug addiction services.
Health
3
Northeast Behavioral Health Corporation
The mission of northeast behavioral health corporation d/b/a beth israel lahey health behavioral services' (bilhbs) is to provide personal, compassionate, state-of-the-art, integrated behavioral healthcare that makes a difference in the…
Health
4
Community Counseling Services
Treat chemical dependency and mental illness.
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5
South Lane Mental Health Services Inc
Mental Health Services
Health
6
Lincoln Behavioral Services
Lincoln Behavioral Services provides comprehensive outpatient mental health and physical health services to individuals residing in southeastern Michigan.
Health
7
Mental Health Connecticut Inc
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Health
8
Upper Valley Comm Health Services Inc
Medical, Dental, Behavioral Health and Pharmacy
Health
9
Northern Pines Mental Health Center
Mental health and substance use services
Health
10
Northeast Integrated Health
Mental health services
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11
Southeastern Behavioral Health Care
Mental health services
Health
12
Family Service Agency
Mental health services
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwestern Counseling & Support and the most unlike its peers is Clara Martin Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$575,730Human Services$354,547Other$301,052
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HOWARD CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COUNSELING & SUP ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HLTH ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE & REHAB SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COUNSELNG SRV OF ADDISON CNTY ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CLARA MARTIN CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED COUNSELING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds NFI VERMONT ↗
- Who funds RUTLAND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERV ↗
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 FoundationVT28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Center for Health and Learning Ltd · Elevate Youth Services Inc · Vermont Energy Investment Corporation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation VERMONT COUNCIL OF DEVELOPMENTAL 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.
2025
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CLARA MARTIN CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 030220733 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on CLARA MARTIN CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Vermont Council of Developmental?
Find your warmest path to Vermont Council of Developmental through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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By state
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State money flows
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