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Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$937k
Granted FY2023
46
Grants FY2023
46
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$78,600
Organizations funded a year
1 to 46
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
7
Total assets, FY2023
$841k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthInternationalReligionArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202346$937k57%
FY202227$671k44%
FY202121$513k100%
FY20191$25kn/a
82% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$803kReligion$540kCrime & Legal$110kHealth$104kSocial Science$96kInternational$55kPublic Benefit$50kYouth Development$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
OR
NJ
CA
VA
TN
NC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ethan Allen Institute$96,000231%
Mater Christi School$60,0003n/a
Central Fund of Israel$50,00010%
Vermont Parent Representation Center Inc$40,0001n/a
Home School Legal Defense Association$30,05030%
First Step Pregnancy Center Inc$30,00036%
The Caroline Fund$30,0001n/a
United Christian Academy$30,00032%
Mid Vermont Christian School$30,0003n/a
Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc$25,00010%
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All grantees of Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ethan Allen Institute$96,000231%
Mater Christi School$60,0003n/a
Central Fund of Israel$50,00010%
Vermont Parent Representation Center Inc$40,0001n/a
Home School Legal Defense Association$30,05030%
First Step Pregnancy Center Inc$30,00036%
The Caroline Fund$30,0001n/a
United Christian Academy$30,00032%
Mid Vermont Christian School$30,0003n/a
Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Jewish Communities of Vermont Inc$15,000110%
Capstone Community Action Inc$10,00010%
The Womens Center$6,50014%
Chabad Northeast Portland$5,0001n/a
Spirit of America Worldwide$5,00010%
Catalyst Church$5,0001n/a
Ohavi Zedek Synagogue$3,0001n/a
Valley Bible Church$2,0001n/a
Jenna Tatro Memorial Fund$1,50010%
Partners in Adventure Inc$50010%
Valley Bible Church$2151n/a
Ignite Church Inc$2071n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEthan Allen Institute: $96,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHome School Legal Defense Association: $30,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Step Pregnancy Center Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetUnited Christian Academy: $30,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCalvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJewish Communities of Vermont Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCapstone Community Action Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Womens Center: $6,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSpirit of America Worldwide: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJenna Tatro Memorial Fund: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPartners in Adventure Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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 FoundationVT16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc

How much does Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc give?
Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc reported 46 grants totaling $937,204 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 46 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (20%), Religion (14%), Crime & Legal (3%).
Who are Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: Ethan Allen Institute ($96k), Mater Christi School ($60k), Central Fund of Israel ($50k).
Does Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc based?
Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc is based in IL.

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 60 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $889k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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