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Vermont Eastern Star Home Inc

PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO OTHER EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$153k
Granted FY2026still arriving
25
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242026.

Health$50kFood & Nutrition$50kHuman Services$20kAnimals$6kEducation$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kRecreation & Sports$5kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0
02FY2026 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k23 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$78,624
VERMONT FOOD BANK$25,000
NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES$5,000
BAYADA HEALTH CARE$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
VERMONT SPECIAL OLYMPICS$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF VT$2,000
VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER$2,000
VERMONT KIDNEY ASSOCIATION$2,000
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK$2,000
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$2,000
VERMONT VETERANS FUND$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY24–26, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES: $2k → 11%NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES: $2k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$321k · 21 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2026, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
5

Total granted

$321k
$7k

Still filing today

52%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25’26
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • VA
    VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC
    3× · 2024–2026 · $5k · revenue +4%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2024–2026 · $5k · revenue +3%
  • VA
    VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
    3× · 2024–2026 · $5k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • VA
    VERMONT ASSEMBLY OF HOME HEALTH HOS
    one grant, 2025 · $2k
  • VC
    VERMONTS CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
    one grant, 2025 · $2k
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR CEREBRAL PALSY
    one grant, 2025 · $2k

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.

1
Vermont Family Network Inc

Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.

Human Services
2
Vermont Addiction Professionals Association

Vapa is the voice for addiction professionals and provides state and national advocacy and collaboration, education, mentorship and networking.

Community Improvement
3
Gunsensevt

To ensure all vermonters are free from gun violence

Civil Rights
4
Connecticut Valley Addiction Recovery Inc

Connecticut valley addiction recovery, inc is dedicated to the treatment and support of individuals with substance use and related disorders. cvar believes that healing the underlying behavioral and emotional problems contributing to…

Health
5
The University of Vermont Medical Center

To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.

Health
6
Vermont Realtors Charitable Foundation Inc
Public Benefit
7
Vermont Center for Family Studies

Our mission is to strengthen families and communities by improving human relationships. We do this through the training of expert family therapists, advisors, leaders, and family members in Bowen Family Systems Theory.

Human Services
8
Vermont Psychological Services Former Behavior Therapy & Psychotherapy

Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behavior & psychological problems.

Health
9
The Vermont Children's Alliance

To provide support services to local communities and childrens advocacy centers, to serve as a resource and to facilitate a network dedicated to coordinated and comprehensive response to child abuse.

Crime & Legal
10
Vermont Medical Society

The vermont medical society is the leading voice of physicians and physician assistants in the state and is dedicated to advancing the practice of medicine by advocating on behalf of vermonts clinicians and the patients and communities…

11
Vermont Public Transportation Association Inc

Vermont Public Transportation Association works to increase mobility for Vermonters by providing service for Non-Emergency medical appointments, elderly and Disabled Transportation, Rides To Work (economic development), Mobility For…

12
Vermont Association of Business

It is Vabirs mission to help employers meet their staffing needs for a stable skilled Workforce and to advocate public and private policies that encourage and increase access for persons with disabilities in the work environment.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Cares and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $184,712 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+21 more — $73,000 · Other+21 moreVERMONT FOODBANK — $50,000 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANKVERMONT CARES — $4,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $4,000 · HealthVERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA — $4,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $4,500 · Human ServicesNEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES — $4,000 · Human ServicesVERMONT PAWS & BOOTS INC — $6,000 · AnimalsVERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC — $4,500 · Education
Other$257,712Food & Nutrition$50,000Health$12,000Human Services$8,500Animals$6,000Education$4,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT PAWS & BOOTS INC — $6,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC — $4,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetVERMONT KIDNEY ASSOCIATION — $4,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetVERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 VERMONT FOODBANK
  • Who funds VERMONT PAWS & BOOTS INC
  • Who funds NORTHEAST KINGDOM HUMAN SERVICES INC
  • Who funds MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC
  • Who funds VERMONT KIDNEY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
  • Who funds VERMONT CARES
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES
  • Who funds VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA

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 FoundationVT15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · 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 organization Vermont Eastern Star Home 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Vermont Kidney Association100% of income from government
  • Vermont Achievement Center Inc31% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank13% of income from government
  • Northeast Kingdom Human Services Inc8% of income from government
  • New England Kurn Hattin Homes1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Vermont Eastern Star Home Inc?

Find your warmest path to Vermont Eastern Star Home Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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