How much did VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$8.4MEducation$691kCommunity Improvement$388kHuman Services$361kPhilanthropy$277kYouth Development$174kRecreation & Sports$142kEnvironment$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$4.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

cultural facilitieshead startanimating infrastructuregraceoriginalusingclay

2020

booksworking artistsspringfieldhostedshowsopen walllibrary

2021

fairleegracesciencebarre operaproductionsadultdorset

2022

lgbtqhelpsbroad brookactivities fosterfoster spiritspirit honorspark creative

2023

operaticpreservationconservationmediumvalueswinooskirecreation

2024

thetfordspecialsymphonicgreensboroalwaysservespuppetry

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k50 grants · $403k
$10k–50k48 grants · $964k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M

$13,223

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$200,000
YELLOW BARN INC$196,500
HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS$141,500
MAMASEZZ FOODS INC$112,500
MARK LACKLEY FURNITURE MAKER LLC$112,500
FROG HOLLOW CRAFT ASSOCIATION$85,000
KINGDOM CREAMERY OF VERMONT$85,000
SCHOOL OF CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS (SOCAPA)$66,000
SEASONAL PIANO INC$65,000
BUTTERFLY BAKERY OF VERMONT$65,000
MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER$63,000
LAKE DUNMORE MUSIC LLC$55,000
PENTANGLE ARTS$45,000
VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER$40,200
MARBLE HOUSE PROJECT$35,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $283k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 117 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

117 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117

129

Total granted

$10M

$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+28%

Still filing today

87%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

CF
CATAMOUNT FILM AND ARTS CENTER
7× · 2018–2024 · $409k · revenue +117%
BC
BURLINGTON CITY ARTS
7× · 2018–2024 · $372k · revenue +289%
TH
TOWN HALL THEATER INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $307k · revenue +425%

Funded once

LC
LEAHY CENTER FOR LAKE CHAMPLAIN INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +43%
OL
OB2 LLC
one grant, 2023 · $200k
FO
FRIENDS OF HILDENEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +35%

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.

The Field Center

Located in southern Vermont, the Field Center is an educational center for arts practices that serves as a resource for working artists at all stages of their career to focus on their work, develop their teaching and performance practices…

Arts & Culture

Currier Gallery of Art

Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.

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Worcester County Arts Council Inc

To aid, encourage, advise, and correlate activities dedicated to the promotion of the arts in worcester county, as may be feasible; to integrate such activities into the total life of the community served by the council.

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Saugatuck Center for the Arts Inc

The mission of saugatuck center for the arts, inc is to transform lives by creating community, connecting people and spreading joy through three areas: entertainment, education and engagement.

Arts & Culture

Worcester Center for Performing

The hanover theatre seeks to ignite and nurture a passion for the performing arts in audiences and artists of today and tomorrow. in doing so we will participate fully in the revitalization of downtown worcester by bringing vistiors to the…

Arts & Culture

Middlebury Acting Company

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.

Arts & Culture

The Space on Main

It is the mission of The Space on Main Street to foster entrepreneurship, innovation, the arts, education, health, and recreation in order to increase opportunity for personal and collective growth in the Cohase region of Vermont and New…

Community Improvement

North Country Center for the Arts Inc

A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire

Arts & Culture

Mountain Arts Network

To inspire visual arts in the mountain communities

Arts & Culture

Girdwood Center for Visual Arts Inc

Artists' cooperative provides gallery exposure, exhibits and education.

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Moonbox Productions Inc

MoonBox Productions is dedicated to supporting local arts and local artists and to connect communities to the nonprofit organizations that serve them

Arts & Culture

Art Guild of Burlington

Enhance the arts through education, exhibitions & performance programs in the burlington iowa area.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Stage Company and the most unlike its peers is Leahy Center for Lake. 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.

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 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%4/289

the rest of the field

351/4,583

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.

05the grantee network

180 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

172/180

Grantees still filing

127/180

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$8,447,238Other$4,369,867Education$690,660Community Improvement$387,575Human Services$360,809Philanthropy$277,038Youth Development$174,098

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.

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 FoundationVT151.2× affinity138 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Humanities Council · The Windham Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc · Vermont Afterschool Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · National Life Group Charitable · The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc · Turrell Fund · New England Foundation for the Arts · Thomas Thompson Trust

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 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

Friends of the Vergennes Opera House Inc — 100% of income from government
Central Vermont Council On Aging Inc — 74% of income from government
Vermont Historical Society — 51% of income from government
Vergennes Partnership Inc — 37% of income from government
Leahy Center for Lake — 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
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 — 11% of income from government
Windsor Public Library — 9% of income from government
Clemmons Family Farm Inc — 9% of income from government
Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
New England Foundation for the Arts — 8% of income from government
Friends of Dog Mountain Inc — 7% of income from government
Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% 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
Northern Stage Company — 4% of income from government
Chandler Center for the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin — 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
Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 1% of income from government
Bradford Public Library — 1% of income from government
Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc — 1% of income from government
Center for Arts & Learning Inc — 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

80get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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.

05Through 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: MAIN STREET ARTS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 222888176 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 MAIN STREET ARTS, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 44% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 on the Arts Inc?

Find your warmest path to Vermont Council on the Arts Inc 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.

VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

180 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Vermont Council on the Arts Inc?

More from the funding graph

VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

180 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Vermont Council on the Arts Inc?

More from the funding graph