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VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORPORATION
Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy (continues in sched o)(continued) solutions the world needs.
$8.5M
Granted FY2024
21
Grants
1
Communities
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORPORATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
03FY2024 · 21 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $810k
- $250k+14 grants · $7.6M
$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
- RUTLAND WEST NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES$1,000,000
- SOUTHWEST VERMONT SUPERVISORY UNION$930,000
- RUTLAND NORTHEAST SUPERVISORY UNION$834,185
- CENTRAL VERMONT SUPERVISORY UNION$750,000
- LYNDON INSTITUTE$616,655
- VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER$614,890
- MOUNT ABRAHAM UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT$506,400
- ORANGE EAST SUPERVISORY UNION$503,840
- BURLINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT$380,838
- MILTON TOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT$374,487
- ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT$300,000
- NORTH COUNTRY SUPERVISORY UNION$300,000
- CLARA MARTIN CENTER INC$279,168
- MOUNTAIN VIEWS SUPERVISORY UNION$250,000
- WINDHAM CENTRAL SUPERVISORY UNION$240,000
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $468k) 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 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.
34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.8M · 21 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
21
100
Total granted
$8.8M
$13M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+22%
+25%
Still filing today
29%
27%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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
- LILYNDON INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2024 · $727k · revenue +4%
- VAVERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER3× · 2020–2024 · $642k · revenue +13%
CLARA MARTIN CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SJSAINT JOHNSBURY ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +15%
- WRWHITE RIVER VALLEY SUPERVISORY UNIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- KEKINGDOM EAST SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $868k
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.
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Mountain Village Charter School
Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and ph
Education
2
The School in Rose Valley
The School in Rose Valley is a progressive school for children in preschool through sixth grade. In our classrooms and our wooded campus, teachers and students create experiences that arouse curiosity, stretch muscles, strengthen…
Education
3
The Pine School Inc
The Pine School is an independent college preparatory school educating students in Kindergarten through 12th Grade. We promote academic, artistic, and athletic excellence in a close-knit learning environment that extends from the classroom…
Education
4
The Vincent Smith School
The Vincent Smith School is a co-ed, independent, special education school for grades ones through twelve, serving Nassau, Suffolk, and New York City students. The School specializes in students with various learning issues.
Education
5
The Washington-Waldorf School Inc
Educating the whole child, in mind, body and spirit, for a life of continuous learning and meaningful engagement with the world. Washington Waldorf School follows the Waldorf curriculum for students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth…
Education
6
The Lowell Whiteman School
Private k-12 day and boarding school for approximately 180 students.
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7
Berkwood School
K-8 education using a hands-on development curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers.
Education
8
The Berkeley School
A preschool-8th grade independent school whose mission is to ignite curious minds, awaken generous hearts, and engage a changing world.
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9
Cliff Valley School Inc
Education of children from preschool through eighth grade.
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10
Westminster School Inc
To provide the opportunity for a superior elementary and middle school education based on exceptionally high curricula and standards.
Education
11
Green Mountain Valley School Inc
Academic & ski school
Education
12
Spruce Street School
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilltop Montessori School Inc 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.
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
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 52 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/131
the rest of the field
8%
353/4,577
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
36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$20,636,078Education$4,062,189Housing & Shelter$1,000,000Human Services$468,306Recreation & Sports$63,793Health$5,910
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 FoundationVT64.2× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Stern Center for Language And · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Let's Grow Kids Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Elevate Youth Services Inc · MENTOR Vermont Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Vermont Council of Developmental · I Car Education Foundation · Fidelity 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 ENERGY INVESTMENT CORPORATION 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
- Community House Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Orchard Valley Waldorf School Inc — 10% of income from government
- Rutland West Neighborhood Housing — 9% of income from government
- Lyndon Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hilltop Montessori School Inc — 5% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Academy — 3% of income from government
- Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
- The Sharon Academy — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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: HILAND HALL SCHOOL INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +66% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 030331765 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 HILAND HALL SCHOOL INC, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% 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 Energy Investment Corporation?
Find your warmest path to Vermont Energy Investment Corporation 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines