· Public charity
Vermont Council on the Arts Inc
The council's mission is to advance and preserve the arts at the center of vermont communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 64 grants below total $892,545 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,461,137 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $568,592 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 $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $858k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER | $43,500 |
| CATAMOUNT FILM AND ARTS CENTER | $28,549 |
| BARRE OPERA HOUSE | $28,500 |
| MAQUAM BAY OF MISSISQUOI | $28,500 |
| SHELBURNE CRAFT SCHOOL | $26,098 |
| OLDCASTLE PRODUCTIONS INC | $24,000 |
| OKEMO VALLEY TV | $24,000 |
| BIRDS OF VERMONT MUSEUM INC | $23,750 |
| STANDREW'S CHURCH | $21,404 |
| RUTLAND AREA ARTS ASSOCIATION | $20,800 |
| BENNINGTON MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| DORSET PLAYERS | $17,779 |
| BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM AND ART CENTER | $17,000 |
| FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $16,000 |
| CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM | $16,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $365k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
124 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 12 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCatamount Film & Arts Company9× · 2017–2025 · $444k · revenue +75%
- BCBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $404k · revenue +218%
- THTOWN HALL THEATER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $324k · revenue +425%
Funded once
- LCLEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INCone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -7%
- OLOB2 LLCone grant, 2023 · $200k
- MSMarlboro School of Music Incone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
MoonBox Productions is dedicated to supporting local arts and local artists, and to connect communities to the nonprofit organizations that serve them.
The mission of the vermont opera project is to create site specific productions of new or lesser known operas in various locations around vermont.
Our mission is to produce plays locally, provide skilled actors, directors and designers with a chance to work, and to engage, challenge and educate our audience.
Theater in the woods vermont co. educates children and adults in theater skills, creative community building, and connection to the natural world through summer camps, workshops, and productions.
Kishka Gallery and Library is an arts space in White River Junction, VT that supports local arts and artists, hosts regular contemporary art exhibitions, takes traveling exhibitions to national art fairs, and provides a free lending…
A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire
The Saco River Theatres mission is art, culture and the community.
To provide affordable space for artists, performers and educators. to offer arts progamming in northampton massachusetts.
To promote education in the arts.
To locate a high quality arts venue in the Lakes Region.
To support contemporary arts through exhibitions, education and cultural programming and serve as an anchor for artistic activity and community. Granary Arts supports and exhibits regional and international artists, provides educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd and the most unlike its peers is Highland Center for the Arts. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
193 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. 193 of the 316 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Catamount Film & Arts Company ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER ↗
- Who funds TOWN HALL THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARAMOUNT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds YELLOW BARN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS BARN INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Marlboro School of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds BARRE OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BRATTLEBORO MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CURRENT INC ↗
- Who funds BRATTLEBORO MUSEUM & ART CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds CHANDLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES ↗
- Who funds RETREAT FARM LTD ↗
- Who funds VERMONT YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE ARTS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds LYRIC THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds RURAL ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATOR INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER ARTS OF MORRISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE 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.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Humanities Council · The Windham Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · Thomas Thompson Trust · James E Robison 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 Council on the Arts Inc 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.
- Friends of the Vergennes Opera House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Vermont Folklife Center — 90% of income from government
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Central Vermont Council On Aging Inc — 74% of income from government
- Vermont Historical Society — 51% of income from government
- Maquam Bay of Missisquoi Inc — 43% of income from government
- Vergennes Partnership Inc — 37% of income from government
- Pride Center of Vermont Inc — 37% of income from government
- Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc — 33% of income from government
- St Albans Historical Society Inc — 32% of income from government
- Catamount Film & Arts Company — 27% of income from government
- Ruth Stone House — 26% of income from government
- Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
- Out in the Open Inc — 25% of income from government
- The Vermont River Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Vermont Granite Museum of Barre — 19% of income from government
- Wilmington Works Inc — 15% of income from government
- Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 15% of income from government
- Chittenden Community Television — 14% of income from government
- Fairfield Community Center Associn — 14% of income from government
- Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
- Paran Recreations Inc — 12% of income from government
- Town Hall Theater Inc — 11% of income from government
- Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Windsor Public Library — 9% of income from government
- Clemmons Family Farm Inc — 9% of income from government
- Downtown Brattleboro Alliance Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated — 8% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- Revitalizing Waterbury Inc — 5% of income from government
- North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Montshire Museum of Science Inc — 4% of income from government
- Vermont Stage Company — 4% of income from government
- Winooski Valley Park District — 3% of income from government
- Chandler Center for the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
- Thetford Academy — 2% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Kingdom County Productions Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Center for Circus Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bradford Public Library — 1% of income from government
- Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc — 1% of income from government
- The Weston Playhouse Theater — 0% of income from government
- Center for Arts & Learning Inc — 0% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bixby Memorial Free Library — 0% of income from government
- The Nature Museum at Grafton — 0% of income from government
- Theatre Adventure Inc — 0% of income from government
- River Arts of Morrisville Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Orchestra Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Vermont College of Fine Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
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.