How much does Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc give?

Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc reported 13 grants totaling $1,176,381 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (55%), Community Improvement (16%), Housing & Shelter (11%).

Who are Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Capstone Community Action Inc ($715k), Rutland West Neighborhood Housing Services Inc ($602k), Vermont Council on Rural Development Inc ($550k).

Does Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, High Meadows Fund Inc, Lintilhac Foundation Inc.

Where is Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc based?

Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc is based in VT.

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Vermont · Public charity

Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc

Advancement of the public good though funding energy projects and initiatives that serve low income vermonters and further energy policies consistent with vermont's comprehensive energy plan.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 13
Grants FY2025: 9
Organizations funded FY2024: 67%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $80,981
Largest grant, FY2025: $200,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 13; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $565k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	13	$1.3M	38%
FY2024	9	$1.1M	67%
FY2023	8	$668k	38%
FY2022	13	$1.4M	38%
FY2021	13	$1.4M	62%
FY2020	4	$565k	50%
FY2019	6	$595k	83%
FY2018	7	$968k	100%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$4.6MCommunity Improvement$1.4MHousing & Shelter$949kHuman Services$750kEmployment$350kFood & Nutrition$155kScience & Tech$150kPublic Benefit$75kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Capstone Community Action Inc	$715,000	4	2%
Rutland West Neighborhood Housing Services Inc	$602,000	4	7%
Vermont Council on Rural Development Inc	$550,000	4	19%
Vermont Adult Learning Inc	$500,000	3	4%
St of Vermont Div of Vocational Rehab H2 C South	$487,500	4	n/a
Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc	$395,000	4	2%
Community Rides Vermont Inc	$375,000	2	33%
City of Burlington	$322,050	2	n/a
Vermont Housing and Conservation Board	$310,000	2	n/a
VT Dept Buildings	$300,000	1	n/a

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All grantees of Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Capstone Community Action Inc	$715,000	4	2%
Rutland West Neighborhood Housing Services Inc	$602,000	4	7%
Vermont Council on Rural Development Inc	$550,000	4	19%
Vermont Adult Learning Inc	$500,000	3	4%
St of Vermont Div of Vocational Rehab H2 C South	$487,500	4	n/a
Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc	$395,000	4	2%
Community Rides Vermont Inc	$375,000	2	33%
City of Burlington	$322,050	2	n/a
Vermont Housing and Conservation Board	$310,000	2	n/a
VT Dept Buildings	$300,000	1	n/a
Energy Action Network Inc	$300,000	3	24%
Vermont Energy Education Program Inc	$265,000	5	17%
Randolph Area Community Development Corporation	$225,000	2	11%
Champlain Housing Trust	$210,000	2	0%
Wheelpad L3C	$175,000	2	n/a
Community College of Vermont - Montpelier	$170,000	1	n/a
Washington Electric Cooperative Inc	$170,000	2	1%
Climate Economy Action Center of Addison County Inc	$165,000	2	71%
Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc	$150,000	1	1%
Heartbeet Lifesharing Corporation	$150,000	1	7%
Green Mountain Carshare Inc	$150,000	2	9%
Brattleboro Development Credit Corp	$142,000	1	2%
Stowe Electric Department	$125,000	1	n/a
Vermont Foodbank	$115,578	1	0%
Vermont Dairy Promo Council	$100,000	1	n/a
Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Vermont Public Power Supply	$90,000	1	n/a
Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District	$80,981	1	n/a
Housing Initiatives Inc Rutland Housing Authority	$80,000	1	n/a
Milk With Dignity Standards Council Inc	$80,000	1	32%
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc	$75,000	1	5%
Agritech Institute for Small Farms Inc	$65,531	1	55%
Vermont Works for Women Inc	$60,000	1	5%
Town of Fair Haven	$60,000	1	n/a
Mmhc	$55,000	1	n/a
Riverflow Community Inc	$50,000	1	13%
Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Lamoille Housing Partnership Inc	$40,000	1	1%
Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc	$30,000	1	1%
East Calais Community Trust	$30,000	1	29%
Energy Futures Group	$30,000	1	n/a
Food Connect Co	$30,000	1	n/a
Brattleboro Food Coop	$9,400	1	n/a
Habitat for Humanity of Addison Cou	$6,875	1	2%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($275k), not named here.

Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 28.

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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 FoundationVT55× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · High Meadows Fund Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Vermont State Employees Credit Union · George W Mergens Foundation · Tulgey Wood Foundation · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · Harris & Frances Block Foundation Inc · Let's Grow Kids 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.

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About Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc

How much does Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc give?: Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc reported 13 grants totaling $1,176,381 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (55%), Community Improvement (16%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
Who are Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Capstone Community Action Inc ($715k), Rutland West Neighborhood Housing Services Inc ($602k), Vermont Council on Rural Development Inc ($550k).
Does Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, High Meadows Fund Inc, Lintilhac Foundation Inc.
Where is Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc based?: Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Inc is based in VT.