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Vermont Humanities Council
Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.
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.
The 19 grants below total $207,525 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $556,251 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $348,726 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNSON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| VERMONT STUDIO CENTER | $25,000 |
| WESTON THEATRE COMPANY | $25,000 |
| WESTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC | $10,000 |
| ABENAKI CIRCLE OF COURAGE INC | $10,000 |
| LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| BURLINGTON HISTORY & CULTURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| WINDHAM WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| RETREAT FARM | $7,500 |
| RUTLAND COUNTY PRIDE | $7,500 |
| VETS TOWN HALL | $7,500 |
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $5,525 |
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 (FY20–23, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 17 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k 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
- VHVERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY3× · 2020–2023 · $49k · revenue +28%
- LCLAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC4× · 2020–2024 · $49k · revenue +69%
- CFCLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC3× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +236%
Funded once
- KLKELLOGG-HUBBARD LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +158%
- ICINTERVALE CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -8%
- GIGOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +192%
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.
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
General reading and lending library offering 24,000 titles, videos, audio books, newspapers, magazines, as well as, various programs to 3,000 residents of Dorset and smaller towns.
The Castleton Free Library serves as a welcoming center for our community and a gateway to the world of information and imagination. We provide free access to materials and ideas through robust collection development, cultural and creative…
Morristown centennial library association provides a free public library for all residents of morristown, vermont.
The mission is to develop and preserve the history of dorset, its evirons and its people
Environmental education through museum exhibits and school, library, and other public programs.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
The mission of Vermont Performing Arts League is to support and sustain a spirit of community among diverse peoples by fostering educational, cultural, social and recreational
The Quechee Library serves as a public library and freely provides access and materials for information, lifelong learning, entertainment, and reflection, as well as programs to foster community and engagement.
The mission of the barre opera house inc. is to restore, preserve and operate the historic barre opera house as a center for the performing arts serving the entire central vermont community.
To collect, preserve, interpret , and present the story of manchester, vermont through research, collection, exhibitions, programs and publications.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Woodstock History Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rutland County Pride. 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 32 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 101 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 VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMMONS FAMILY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ORLEANS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Sheldon Art Museum Archaeological and Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT STUDIO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KELLOGG-HUBBARD LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOODSTOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds RETREAT FARM LTD ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS MUSEUM & PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT VERMONT ↗
- Who funds The Ethan Allen Homestead Museum ↗
- Who funds Pride Center of Vermont Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RICHARD A AND BARBARA W SNELLING CENTER FOR GOVERNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES ↗
- Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE JEUDEVINE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Barre Historical Society ↗
- Who funds RUTLAND COUNTY PRIDE ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S INSTITUTES OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds STUDIO PLACE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Weston Community Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CIVIC STANDARD INC ↗
- Who funds Sundog Poetry Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS BARN 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 · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc · George W Mergens Foundation · Vermont Afterschool Inc · Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Oakland 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 Humanities Council 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.
- The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
- Vermont Folklife Center — 90% of income from government
- Elevate Youth Services Inc — 88% of income from government
- Friends of the Jeudevine Library Inc — 85% of income from government
- Vermont Historical Society — 51% of income from government
- Northwoods Stewardship Center — 40% of income from government
- Pride Center of Vermont Inc — 37% of income from government
- St Albans Historical Society Inc — 32% of income from government
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc — 29% of income from government
- South Hero Library Foundation Inc — 28% of income from government
- Ruth Stone House — 26% of income from government
- Retreat Farm Ltd — 25% of income from government
- Out in the Open Inc — 25% of income from government
- Vermont Council On the Arts Inc — 20% of income from government
- Vermont Granite Museum of Barre — 19% of income from government
- Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
- Governor's Institutes of Vermont — 15% of income from government
- Green Mountain United Way Inc — 15% of income from government
- Solomon Wright Public Library — 14% of income from government
- Chittenden Community Television — 14% of income from government
- Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Town Hall Theater Inc — 11% of income from government
- Kellogg-Hubbard Library — 10% of income from government
- Windsor Public Library — 9% of income from government
- Clemmons Family Farm Inc — 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium — 7% of income from government
- Bennington Free Library — 3% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Blake Memorial Library Association — 1% of income from government
- Dailey Memorial Library — 1% of income from government
- The Weston Playhouse Theater — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Council On World Affairs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Craftsbury Public Library Inc — 0% of income from government
- Brandon Free Public Library — 0% of income from government
- Bixby Memorial Free Library — 0% of income from government
- Migrant Justice Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- The Woodstock Foundation 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.