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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 it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2026.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
CAMP TA-KUMTA$2,000
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION$2,000
VERMONT KIDNEY ASSOCIATION$2,000
VERMONT CARES$2,000
VERMONT VETERANS FUND$2,000
VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER$2,000
VERMONT PAWS AND BOOTS$2,000
VERMONT SPECIAL OLYMPICS$2,000
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK$2,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$2,000
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$2,000
MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

Backed again, and grew

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

Funded once

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

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…

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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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Cares; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · HealthVERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA: $4,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVERMONT FOODBANK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT PAWS & BOOTS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetVERMONT KIDNEY ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC: $4,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetVERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT CARES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 VERMONT KIDNEY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds MASONIC CHARITIES OF VERMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT CARES ↗
  • Who funds VERMONTS CAMP TA-KUM-TA ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND KURN HATTIN HOMES ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vermont Eastern Star Home Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vermont Eastern Star Home Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Vermont Kidney Association: 100% of income from government
  • Vermont Achievement Center Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Northeast Kingdom Human Services Inc: 8% of income from government
  • New England Kurn Hattin Homes: 1% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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