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Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

$20M
Granted FY2025still arriving
118
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$8.1MHuman Services$2.4M
02FY2025 · 118 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 118 grants below total $1,408,432, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,845,703 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,437,271 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k74 grants · $447k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $746k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
$8,181
Median grant
1
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GOOD SAMARITAN HAVEN$25,000
UPPER VALLEY HAVEN 2$25,000
ADDISON ACCESS CENTER CVOEO$23,740
JUST BASICS$22,003
BROC COMMUNITY ACTION RUTLAND$21,914
NORTHWEST FAMILY FOODSCVOEO$20,884
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE: $12k → 9%SUSU COMMUNITY FARM: $30k → 11%LUNENBURG GILMAN & CONCORD SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $5k → 12%SUSU COMMUNITY FARM: $13k → 11%NEKCA ST JOHNSBURY: $11k → 14%ACCAG-HOPE: $8k → 9%OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER: $7k → 11%NEKCA NEWPORT: $10k → 14%HOPE: $5k → 9%SLATE VALLEY CARES: $23k → 12%NEKCA ST JOHNSBURY: $8k → 14%WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES: $14k → 9%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $110k → 9%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $9k → 10%SLATE VALLEY CARES: $12k → 12%NEKCA ISLAND POND: $6k → 14%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $105k → 9%SHELBURNE FOOD SHELF: $7k → 10%ORANGE COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $5k → 10%FAIR HAVEN CONCERNED (SLATE VALLEY CARES): $5k → 12%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $105k → 9%JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $164k → 10%NEKCA NEWPORT: $5k → 14%QUIN-TOWN SENIOR CENTER: $6k → 9%JANET S MUNT FAMILY ROOM: $51k → 10%WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $6k → 9%JOHN GRAHAM EMERGENCY SHELTER: $5k → 9%NEIGHBORS IN ACTIONNEK: $14k → 12%RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $15k → 12%THE GALLEYBARRE HOUSING: $7k → 9%HOPE NEK: $10k → 12%WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING: $14k → 9%SUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 11%WHITE RIVER COUNCIL ON AGING: $11k → 9%MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION INC ACT BENNINGTON: $6k → 11%SUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 11%NEIGHBORS IN ACTIONNEK: $6k → 12%RUTLAND SALVATION ARMY: $8k → 12%NEIGHBORS IN ACTION: $12k → 9%MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 10%RUTLAND COUNTY PARENT CHILD CENTER: $7k → 12%CHESTER-ANDOVER FAMILY CENTER: $20k → 9%NEIGHBORS IN ACTION: $8k → 9%CHESTER-ANDOVER FAMILY CENTER: $6k → 9%RUTLAND SALVATION ARMY: $6k → 12%MILTON FAMILY COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 10%JUST BASICS: $22k → 9%JUST BASICS: $14k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 55 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
36

Total granted

$7.1M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+6%

Still filing today

58%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CV
    CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $343k · revenue +94%
  • CC
    CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $320k · revenue +61%
  • JM
    Janet Munt Family Room
    2× · 2024–2025 · $215k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2.3M
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2024 · $149k · revenue -47%
  • RS
    Root Social Justice Center Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $134k · revenue +35% · 43% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lamoille Community Food Share Inc

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,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Groundworks Collaborative Inc

Groundworks collaborative, inc. provides emergency shelter, housing assistance & a food shelf for homeless persons.

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3
Feed Every Need

Feed Every Need is fighting hunger and food insecurity in Vermont by providing prepared meals to partner organizations for distribution to htose in need.

Food & Nutrition
4
The North End Food Pantry Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Emergency Food Aid in Southbury

Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.

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6
Burlington-Hampshire Area Food Pantry

Food Pantry

Food & Nutrition
7
Southwestern Vermont Council on Aging Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Comfort Food of Washington County Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
9
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc

The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.

Environment
10
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
11
Joans Pantry

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

Food & Nutrition
12
Village Food Hub

Aims to meet the need in our region to f

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/104
Grantees still filing
57/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS FOODSHELVES: $4,737,873 · OtherVARIOUS FOODSHELVESIndividual grant recipient: $2,328,409 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+89 more: $1,158,661 · Other+89 moreCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $319,750 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE C…Janet Munt Family Room: $215,492 · Human ServicesJanet Munt…SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesNortheast Kingdom Community Action Inc: $41,066 · Human ServicesSlate Valley Cares Inc: $40,407 · Human ServicesFaith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc: $39,668 · Human ServicesJUST BASICS INC: $36,303 · Human Services+17 more: $224,910 · Human Services+17 moreHARDWICK AREA FOOD PANTRY INC: $96,368 · Food & NutritionGREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $64,608 · Food & NutritionPUTNEY FOODSHELF INC: $57,334 · Food & NutritionBETHEL AREA FOOD SHELF CO: $41,493 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC: $33,111 · Food & NutritionAunt Dot's Place Inc: $30,529 · Food & NutritionPITTSFORD FOOD SHELF INC: $21,600 · Food & NutritionVillage Hydroponic Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionRICHMOND FOOD SHELF AND THRIFT STORE INC: $19,958 · Food & NutritionRANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF: $17,616 · Food & Nutrition+10 more: $96,334 · Food & NutritionCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $343,226 · Community ImprovementBROC COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT: $62,726 · Community ImprovementADDISON COUNTY RELOCALIZATION NETWORK INC: $18,100 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,200 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS: $148,600 · Public Safety & DisasterRoot Social Justice Center Inc: $133,600 · Civil RightsNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: $72,000 · Arts & CultureAHA Abenaki Helping Abenaki Inc: $53,752 · Arts & Culture
Other$8,224,943Human Services$960,096Food & Nutrition$498,951Community Improvement$429,252Public Safety & Disaster$148,600Civil Rights$133,600Arts & Culture$125,752

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $343,226 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $319,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJanet Munt Family Room: $215,492 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS: $148,600 over 1y, 18% of budgetRoot Social Justice Center Inc: $133,600 over 1y, 43% of budgetHARDWICK AREA FOOD PANTRY INC: $96,368 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT: $72,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $64,608 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBROC COMMUNITY ACTION IN SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT: $62,726 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPUTNEY FOODSHELF INC: $57,334 over 2y, 18% of budgetAHA Abenaki Helping Abenaki Inc: $53,752 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY FAMILY CENTER: $46,772 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN: $42,564 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC: $42,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBETHEL AREA FOOD SHELF CO: $41,493 over 2y, 34% of budgetNortheast Kingdom Community Action Inc: $41,066 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSlate Valley Cares Inc: $40,407 over 2y, 22% of budgetLamoille Health Partners Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFaith in Action Northern Com Partner Inc: $39,668 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetJUST BASICS INC: $36,303 over 2y, 13% of budgetMAQUAM BAY OF MISSISQUOI INC: $33,569 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CUPBOARD INC: $33,111 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetADDISON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION GRO INC D/B/A HOPE: $30,536 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAunt Dot's Place Inc: $30,529 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER ASSOCIN: $29,406 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCHESTER-ANDOVER FAMILY CENTER: $26,681 over 2y, 10% of budgetWhite River Council on Aging: $24,700 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGilman Housing Trust Inc: $23,736 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Parent Child Center Network: $22,317 over 2y, 11% of budgetPITTSFORD FOOD SHELF INC: $21,600 over 1y, 28% of budgetVillage Hydroponic Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSPRINGFIELD FAMILY CENTER INC: $18,914 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetADDISON COUNTY RELOCALIZATION NETWORK INC: $18,100 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetRANDOLPH AREA FOOD SHELF: $17,616 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFOOD CONNECTS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOrange County Parent Child Center Inc: $14,479 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC: $14,131 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC: $13,700 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMilton Family Community Center Inc: $13,180 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTWIN VALLEY SENIORS INC: $13,022 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING FOR SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT INC: $12,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF INC: $12,187 over 2y, 12% of budgetSUNRISE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Josh Pallotta Fund Inc: $10,795 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetColchester Community Food Shelf Inc: $10,548 over 2y, 11% of budgetGIVING FRIDGE INC: $10,500 over 1y, 39% of budgetWILLISTON COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $10,003 over 2y, 5.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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…The Redducs Chartered…Hoehl Family Foundati…Agnes M Lindsay TrustThe Windham Foundatio…Mascoma Bank Foundati…Richard E and Deborah…Harris & Frances Bloc…Lintilhac Foundation …
The Vermont Community FoundationVT123× affinity88 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 · 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vermont Foodbank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vermont Foodbank. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
14rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 143 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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