· Public charity
Vermont Foodbank
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 118 grants below total $1,408,432 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,845,703 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,437,271 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k74 grants · $447k
- $10k–50k41 grants · $746k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $104,992 |
| HARDWICK AREA FOOD PANTRY | $59,163 |
| JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM | $51,192 |
| FEEDING CHITTENDENCVOEO | $44,243 |
| ST BRIGID'S KITCHEN | $43,760 |
| PUTNEY FOODSHELF INCORPORATED | $38,934 |
| KITCHEN CUPBOARD | $38,408 |
| BETHEL AREA FOOD SHELF | $34,493 |
| FAMILY CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY | $30,272 |
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN 2 | $25,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN | $25,000 |
| ADDISON ACCESS CENTER CVOEO | $23,740 |
| JUST BASICS | $22,003 |
| BROC COMMUNITY ACTION RUTLAND | $21,914 |
| NORTHWEST FAMILY FOODSCVOEO | $20,884 |
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 (FY19–25, $960k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% 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.
55 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k 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
- CVCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC3× · 2019–2025 · $343k · revenue +94%
- CCCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC3× · 2019–2025 · $320k · revenue +61%
- JMJanet Munt Family Room2× · 2024–2025 · $215k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2.3M
- CRCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2024 · $149k · revenue -47%
- RSRoot Social Justice Center Incone grant, 2024 · $134k · revenue 0% · 43% of their budget
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.
The mission of lamoille community food share is to help support and improve the physical well-being of individuals who might otherwise go hungry. to this end, we provide supplemental food free of charge in a supportive environment,…
Groundworks collaborative, inc. provides emergency shelter, housing assistance & a food shelf for homeless persons.
Feed Every Need is fighting hunger and food insecurity in Vermont by providing prepared meals to partner organizations for distribution to htose in need.
The North End Food Pantry is a volunteer-run organization located in the North End of Burlington, Vermont, dedicated to providing free food, clothing, and personal care items to individuals and families in need.
Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.
Food Pantry
The Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging exists to be a community force in creating and sustaining opportunities for elders and caregivers in our region to help assure that elders are able to maintain maximum independence and quality of…
The mission of Comfort Food Community is to fight rural hunger with innovative programming that expands access to healthy food and builds community partnerships for lasting change.
The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.
The mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
Joans Pantry provides free food to those in need in our community We receive food from USDA and the NH Food Bank and also purchase food to supplement what we get for free
Providing low-cost meals for the elderly in the surrounding area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aha Abenaki Helping Abenaki. 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 31 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) — 5% 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.
104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 143 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.
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Janet Munt Family Room ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS ↗
- Who funds Root Social Justice Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HARDWICK AREA FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds GREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BROC COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY FOODSHELF INC ↗
- Who funds AHA Abenaki Helping Abenaki Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL AREA FOOD SHELF CO ↗
- Who funds Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc ↗
- Who funds Slate Valley Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds Lamoille Health Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds Faith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc ↗
- Who funds JUST BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds MAQUAM BAY OF MISSISQUOI INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds ADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION GRO INC D/B/A HOPE ↗
- Who funds Aunt Dot's Place Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIN ↗
- Who funds CHESTER-ANDOVER FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds White River Council on Aging ↗
- Who funds Gilman Housing Trust Inc ↗
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 · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · The Redducs Chartered Foundation Corp · Hoehl Family Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · The Windham Foundation Inc · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation 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 Foodbank 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.
- Windham & Windsor Housing Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Vermont Parent Child Center Network — 100% of income from government
- Lamoille Community House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- Turning Point of Windam County — 83% of income from government
- Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc — 82% of income from government
- Green Mountain Recovery Foundation Inc — 79% of income from government
- Central Vermont Council On Aging Inc — 74% of income from government
- Garland School Inc — 66% of income from government
- Milton Family Community Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Orange County Parent Child Center Inc — 63% of income from government
- Good Samaritan Haven Inc — 63% of income from government
- Circle Inc — 60% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Sunrise Family Resource Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Janet Munt Family Room — 44% of income from government
- Maquam Bay of Missisquoi Inc — 43% of income from government
- Root Social Justice Center Inc — 42% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Vermont Achievement Center Inc — 31% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
- Salvation Farms Inc — 26% of income from government
- Community Resilience Organizations — 25% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Lamoille Health Partners Inc — 19% of income from government
- Addison County Community Action Gro Inc D/B/a Hope — 18% of income from government
- Gilman Housing Trust Inc — 17% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Aha Abenaki Helping Abenaki Inc — 16% of income from government
- Food Connects — 15% of income from government
- Champlain Housing Trust — 15% of income from government
- Fairfield Community Center Associn — 14% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Susu Community Farm Inc — 10% of income from government
- White River Council on Aging — 1% of income from government
- The Josh Pallotta Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
- Porter Medical Center — 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.