· Private foundation
Vermont Institute for Human Flourishing Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k15 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $536k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Institution for Jewish Thought | $78,600 |
| Chabad on Campus | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| Tamin Academy | $60,000 |
| ETHAN ALLEN INSTITUTE | $51,000 |
| Central Fund of Israel | $50,000 |
| Websterville School | $45,000 |
| Rice Memorial School | $45,000 |
| Vermont Parent Representation Center | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Mater Christi School | $30,000 |
| The Caroline Fund | $30,000 |
| Trinity Baptist School | $25,000 |
| St John The Baptist | $25,000 |
| RACS School | $25,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $10k) 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k 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
- EAETHAN ALLEN INSTITUTE2× · 2022–2023 · $96k · revenue +97% · 31% of their budget
- HSHOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +1%
- UCUNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CLChabad Lubavitchone grant, 2021 · $200k
- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $160k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $69k
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 Center is a resource for family growth and development in Rutland County, Vermont.
The Pregnancy Center of the Upper Valley is an information and education center for young adults facing unexpected pregnancy and/or other consequences of premature sexual activity.
Support kin raising other relatives children
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.
The ACLU Foundation of Vermont is an organization that protects civil liberties. It provides legal representation, communication, and advocacy with regards to rights guaranteed by the U.S. and Vermont Constitutions.
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.
The ACLU of Vermont is a membership organization that protects civil liberties. Its work includes communication and advocacy with regards to rights guaranteed by the U.S. and State Constitutions.
The Vermont Association of Area Agencies on Aging (V4A)supports and strengthens Vermonts five Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) to ensure that all Vermonters are able to age with health, independance and dignity.
Vermont Parent Child Center Network is designed to assist the 15 Parent Child Centers located in Vermont by providing support and services to families they serve.
Education of the public about the criminal justice system. Direct services to people struggling with substance use disorder, including case managment and recovery support.
Robins Nest Childrens Center provides high-quality early care and education in a play-based setting.
Catamount Institute is dedicated to connecting kids to the outdoors through environmental education and outdoor adventures.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Parent Representation Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Caroline Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 60 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 ETHAN ALLEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds VERMONT PARENT REPRESENTATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Caroline Fund ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEP PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF VERMONT 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 · 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
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 Institute for Human Flourishing 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.
- Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
- United Christian Academy — 3% of income from government
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential 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.
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