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Vermont Land Trust Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Vermont Land Trust Inc

Rooted in vermont since 1977, the vermont land trust unites land and lives for the enduring benefit of people and the place we share.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$121k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$1.2MFood & Nutrition$961kEnvironment$769kRecreation & Sports$583kArts & Culture$76kEmployment$50k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $139,095, the rows itemized in this filing. The $147,596 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,501 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $121k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREEN COMMONS OF VERMONT$120,797
CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES$10,000
EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST$8,298
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOBANAKI INC: $12k → 9%MIDDLEBURY AREA LAND TRUST: $15k → 9%VERMONT RELEAF COLLECTIVE: $1.2M → 9%ABENAKI HELPING ABENAKI INC: $7k → 10%NEW ENGLAND FARMERS OF COLOR CO RESIST INC: $891k → 10%GREEN COMMONS OF VERMONT: $121k → 11%EQUINOX PRESERVATION TRUST: $8k → 11%TOWN OF ST JOHNSBURY: $18k → 12%POULTNEY METTOWEE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $145k → 12%COLD HOLLOW TO CANADA: $8k → 9%TOWN OF WAITSFIELD: $49k → 9%PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT: $50k → 10%TOWN OF BRATTLEBORO: $25k → 11%PROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION: $558k → 11%CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY: $10k → 12%POULTNEY METTOWEE CONSERVANTION DISTRICT: $40k → 12%INTERVALE CENTER INC: $50k → 10%ELNU ABENAKI INC: $7k → 11%CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY: $10k → 12%DEER FLATS FARM LLC: $20k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $25k → 10%CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY: $10k → 12%TOWN OF HINESBERG: $113k → 10%TOWN OF BURKE: $20k → 12%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.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$235k · 3 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +191% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
19

Total granted

$235k
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+191%
+31%

Still filing today

67%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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

  • PM
    POULTNEY METTOWEE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    2× · 2018–2022 · $185k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +191%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue -53%

Funded once

  • VR
    VERMONT RELEAF COLLECTIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $1.2M
  • NF
    NORTHEAST FARMERS OF COLOR LAND TRUST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $891k
  • PM
    PROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $558k · revenue -25% · 56% 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
Alford Land Trust Inc

Open Space Preservation

Environment
2
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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3
Kestrel Land Trust

Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment
4
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.

Community Improvement
5
Alliance for Vermont Communities Inc

The mission of alliance for vermont communities, inc. is to protect working farms, forests and communities of central vermont and to promote responsible development that will sustain the rural heritage and values for present and future…

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6
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
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7
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
8
North County Land Trust Inc

We connect people to natural places by protecting open land and creating outdoor experiences in north central massachusetts.

Environment
9
Higgins Lake Land Conservancy

Acquire and otherwise manage conservation of lands within the watershed of Higgins Lake

Environment
10
The Catamount Center
Environment
11
Bear Hill Conservancy Trust
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12
Redding Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of Redding Land Trust is to preserve the natural resources of the Town of Redding, CT and to promote the scientific and educational study of local and natural resources, and to acquire, by gift or purchase, land or…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Equinox Preservation Trust Inc. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VERMONT RELEAF COLLECTIVE: $1,246,263 · OtherVERMONT RELEAF COLLECTIVEPOULTNEY METTOWEE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $185,000 · OtherPOULTNEY METTOWEE NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION DISTRICTAMES HILL-MARLBORO COMMUNITY CTR: $176,413 · OtherAMES HILL-MARLBORO COMMUNITY CTRGREEN COMMONS OF VERMONT INC: $120,797 · OtherGREEN COMMONS OF VERMONT INCTOWN OF HINESBERG: $113,341 · OtherTOWN OF HINESBERG+8 more: $198,946 · Other+8 moreNORTHEAST FARMERS OF COLOR LAND TRUST INC: $890,792 · Food & NutritionNORTHEAST FARMERS OF COLOR …PROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC: $557,876 · Recreation & SportsPROSPECT MOUNTAIN…CENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $30,160 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentMiddlebury Area Land Trust: $15,000 · EnvironmentThe Equinox Preservation Trust Inc: $8,298 · EnvironmentCOLD HOLLOW TO CANADA INCORPORATED: $8,000 · EnvironmentPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAHA Abenaki Helping Abenaki Inc: $7,000 · Arts & CultureELNU ABENAKI INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureINTERVALE CENTER INC: $50,000 · Employment
Other$2,040,760Food & Nutrition$890,792Recreation & Sports$557,876Environment$81,458Arts & Culture$64,000Employment$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROSPECT MOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION INC: $557,876 over 1y, 56% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC: $30,160 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetMiddlebury Area Land Trust: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe Equinox Preservation Trust Inc: $8,298 over 1y, 11% of budgetAHA Abenaki Helping Abenaki Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetELNU ABENAKI INC: $7,000 over 1y, 4.6% 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…High Meadows Fund IncThe Windham Foundatio…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…ImpactassetsincDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Vermont Community FoundationVT32.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · High Meadows Fund Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Cold Hollow to Canada Incorporated: 56% of income from government
  • Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Aha Abenaki Helping Abenaki Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Prospect Mountain Association Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Middlebury Area Land Trust: 2% of income from government
  • Elnu Abenaki Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1rely 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 24 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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