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Vermont Energy Investment Corporation
Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| NORTH COUNTRY SUPERVISORY UNION | $300,000 |
| ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT | $300,000 |
| CLARA MARTIN CENTER INC | $279,168 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEWS SUPERVISORY UNION | $250,000 |
| WINDHAM CENTRAL SUPERVISORY UNION | $240,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $468k) 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M 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
- LILYNDON INSTITUTE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $727k · revenue +33%
- VAVERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC3× · 2020–2024 · $642k · revenue +10%
CLARA MARTIN CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SJSt Johnsbury Academyone grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +23%
- 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.
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.
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 physical development.
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…
A pre-k-8 independent school whose mission is to foster the skills, knowledge, personal attributes and work habits to enable children to thrive effectively, meaningfully, and joyfully in the world of today and tomorrow.
The Pine School's mission is to promote academic, artistic, and athletic excellence.
Berkwood Hedge School provides a hands-on developmental curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers. Our teachers meet the needs of…
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.
K-8 Elementary and Secondary School An elementary and secondary education school providing an academic education with a Christian worldview.
Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
Heronfield academy provides an exceptional middle school experience that empowers students to reach their highest level of academic and personal achievement. we are commited to ensuring that every individual in our community is seen,…
Private k-12 day and boarding school for approximately 180 students.
The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilltop Montessori School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rutland West Neighborhood Housing Services 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 131 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
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.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Stern Center for Language and Learning · Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering Inc · Let's Grow Kids Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · MENTOR Vermont Inc · Elevate Youth Services Inc · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc
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 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.
- Laraway Youth and Family Services Inc — 36% of income from government
- Vermont Achievement Center Inc — 31% of income from government
- Community House Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Bridge School inc — 13% of income from government
- Clara Martin Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- Orchard Valley Waldorf School Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Village School of North Bennington — 9% of income from government
- Rutland West Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — 9% of income from government
- HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
- Lyndon Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hilltop Montessori School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Upper Valley Waldorf School — 4% of income from government
- The Grammar School Inc — 4% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Academy — 3% of income from government
- Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
- Thetford Academy — 2% of income from government
- Health Care & Rehabilitation Services of Southeastern Vt Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Waldorf School — 1% of income from government
- New England Kurn Hattin Homes — 1% of income from government
- The Compass School Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Sharon Academy 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.