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Vermont Federal Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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
2
States reached
$69k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION$20,000
HOPE$5,500
JOSH PALLOTTA FUND INC$5,000
BIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE$5,000
MERCY CONNECTIONS$4,000
LUND FAMILY$4,000
TIM'S HOUSE$3,000
GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT$2,500
ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST$2,500
COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY$2,500
HABITAT FOR AVIATION$2,500
MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER$2,500
PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT$2,500
VERMONT JUMPSTART COALITION$2,000
PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT$2,000
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $20k → 9%THE RAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 9%GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VT: $3k → 9%PRIDE CENTER OF VERMONT: $3k → 10%THE JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $1k → 10%MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 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 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 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
2
Cooperation Vermont

The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.

Community Improvement
3
Rutland County Parent Child Center Inc

The Center is a resource for family growth and development in Rutland County, Vermont.

Human Services
4
Gunsensevt

To ensure all vermonters are free from gun violence

Civil Rights
5
Vermont Realtors Charitable Foundation Inc
Public Benefit
6
Vermont Psychological Services Former Behavior Therapy & Psychotherapy

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

Health
7
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.

Community Improvement
8
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…

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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
Rutland County Pride

Rutland County Pride educates, advocates and celebrates with and for the LGBTQIA2S+ Vermonters and allies.

Civil Rights
11
Vermont Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health Inc

To support families and children where a child or youth, age 0-22, is experiencing or at risk to experience emotional, behavioral, or mental health challanges.

Health
12
Vermont Family Network Inc

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

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Folklife Center and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%14%<5yr12%11%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr21%29%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr15%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%15%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr21%15%20–35yr16%12%35–55yr15%41%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
9%
211/2,378

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

28 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. 28 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
7/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INCGOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT — $2,500 · Human ServicesGOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONTPride Center of Vermont Inc — $2,500 · Human ServicesPride Center of Vermont IncMilton Family Community Center Inc — $2,500 · Human ServicesMilton Family Community Center IncHowardCenter Inc — $2,000 · Human ServicesHowardCenter Inc+3 more — $3,000 · Human Services+3 moreHOPE — $5,500 · OtherHOPEBIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE INC — $5,000 · OtherBIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE INCMERCY CONNECTIONS — $4,000 · OtherMERCY CONNECTIONSLUND FAMILY — $4,000 · OtherLUND FAMILYTIM'S HOUSE — $3,000 · OtherTIM'S HOUSEVERMONT JUMPSTART COALITION — $2,000 · OtherVERMONT JUMPSTART COALITIONIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT — $2,000 · OtherPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT+9 more — $5,421 · Other+9 moreThe Josh Pallotta Fund Inc — $5,000 · HealthThe Josh Pallo…COUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY — $2,500 · HealthCOUNSELING SER…EMPTY ARMS VERMONT CO — $1,000 · HealthEMPTY ARMS VER…STERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING — $1,000 · HealthSTERN CENTER F…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTI…Addison County Unit for Special Investig — $500 · HealthHabitat for Aviation Inc — $2,500 · EducationMENTOR Vermont Inc — $1,500 · EducationVERMONT FARMERS MARKET EDUCATION CENTER — $1,000 · EducationADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY TRUST — $2,500 · Housing & ShelterSalvation Farms Inc — $1,500 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER — $1,000 · Arts & CultureBARRE OPERA HOUSE INC — $500 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$32,500Other$32,921Health$11,000Education$5,000Housing & Shelter$2,500Food & Nutrition$1,500Arts & Culture$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHabitat for Aviation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPride Center of Vermont Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNSELING SERVICE OF ADDISON COUNTY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilton Family Community Center Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHowardCenter Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalvation Farms Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMENTOR Vermont Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOINT URBAN MINISTRY PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEMPTY ARMS VERMONT CO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTERN CENTER FOR LANGUAGE AND LEARNING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW BRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAddison County Unit for Special Investig — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBARRE OPERA HOUSE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…National Life Group C…Community Bank Na Fou…Oakland Foundation IncGeorge W Mergens Foun…Turrell FundThe Windham Foundatio…Agnes M Lindsay TrustVermont Childrens Tru…United Way of Northwe…Vermont Foodbank
The Vermont Community FoundationVT45.4× affinity21 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 · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Turrell Fund · The Windham Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Vermont Foodbank

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Vermont Folklife Center — 90% of income from government
  • Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
  • Milton Family Community Center Inc — 65% of income from government
  • Prevent Child Abuse Vermont — 58% of income from government
  • Mentor Vermont Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
  • Pride Center of Vermont Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Salvation Farms Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Addison County Community Trust — 16% of income from government
  • HowardCenter Inc — 8% of income from government
  • North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Josh Pallotta Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Stern Center for Language and Learning — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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: 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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Vermont Federal Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Vermont Federal Foundation 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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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