How much did VERMONT FEDERAL FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

VERMONT FEDERAL FOUNDATION INC reported 38 grants totaling $86,921 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is VERMONT FEDERAL FOUNDATION INC based?

VERMONT FEDERAL FOUNDATION INC is based in VT.

VERMONT FEDERAL FOUNDATION INC

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

VERMONT FEDERAL FOUNDATION INC

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$87k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$20k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k37 grants · $67k
$10k–50k1 grant · $20k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$69k

Total assets

Largest grants

CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION$20,000
HOPE$5,500
BIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE$5,000
JOSH PALLOTTA FUND INC$5,000
LUND FAMILY$4,000
MERCY CONNECTIONS$4,000
TIM'S HOUSE$3,000
COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY$2,500
ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST$2,500
PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT$2,500
MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER$2,500
HABITAT FOR AVIATION$2,500
GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT$2,500
HOWARD CENTER$2,000
MAHANA MAGIC$2,000

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 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 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.

Vermont Public Co

To broaden and diversify our audience through relevant, trusted information and stories that bring people and communities together.

Arts & Culture

University of Vermont and State

The mission of the uvm foundation is to secure and manage private support for the benefit of the university of vermont.

Education

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

Vermonters for Criminal Justice Reform

Education of the public about the criminal justice system. Direct services to people struggling with substance use disorder, including case managment and recovery support.

Crime & Legal

Alliance for a Better Vermont

Conducts and coordinates research of critical issues affecting vermonters. also conducts public opinion research.

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Vermont Humanities Council

Connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities.

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Vermont Community Garden Network Inc

Our mission is to cultivate well-being by helping people of all ages access resources to grow food, build confidence and connect with each other. Our goals are to increase access to gardening resources, develop outreach and education…

Environment

The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect and restore rivers for people and wildlife. conservation work addresses flood resilience and outdoor recreation.

Human Services

Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd

Information is power. the mission of the vermont journalism trust and vtdigger.org, is to give that power to vermonters by making complex public policy issues readily accessible, by holding government accountable and by giving readers…

Arts & Culture

Vermont Community Loan Fund

Investing in people and communities to create a just and thriving vermont

Housing & Shelter

Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire Inc

We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.

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Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc

The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milton Family Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Josh Pallotta Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/27

the rest of the field

196/2,665

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.

03the grantee network

24 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)

24/24

Grantees still filing

17/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$37,921Human Services$28,000Health$11,000Education$5,000Housing & Shelter$2,500Food & Nutrition$1,500Environment$1,000

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 FoundationVT40.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New · National Life Group Charitable · Oakland Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Turrell Fund · George W Mergens Foundation · Vermont Foodbank · Vermont State Employees Credit Union · The Kelsey 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 FEDERAL FOUNDATION 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through 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: THE RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 874179080 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 THE RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% 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 Federal Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Vermont Federal Foundation 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 FEDERAL FOUNDATION INC

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Vermont Federal Foundation Inc?

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VERMONT FEDERAL FOUNDATION INC

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Vermont Federal Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph