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Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care Inc

Improve health care in vermont by studying the system and making it work better.

$257k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$23k
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 2023.

Health$524k
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$22,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL SYSTEM$22,500
UVMHN - PORTER MEDICAL CENTER$22,500
NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL$22,500
NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL$22,500
CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER$22,500
COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC$22,500
GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER$22,500
MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER$22,500
GRACE COTTAGE HOSPITAL$12,500
BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$12,500
RUTLAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$12,500
NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$12,500
UVM MEDICAL CENTER$12,500
SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER$12,500
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $13k → 9%SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL SYSTEM: $23k → 9%UVMHN - PORTER MEDICAL CENTER: $23k → 9%COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $23k → 9%CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $23k → 9%UVM MEDICAL CENTER: $13k → 10%GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER: $23k → 10%GRACE COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $15k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $13k → 11%NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $23k → 12%RUTLAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $29k → 12%NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL: $23k → 14%MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER: $23k → 9%PORTER MEDICAL CENTER: $18k → 9%COPLEY HOSPITAL: $10k → 9%GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER: $15k → 10%GRACE COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $13k → 11%NVRH QUALITY MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT: $14k → 12%RUTLAND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $13k → 12%NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL: $15k → 14%MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CTR: $15k → 9%PORTER MEDICAL CENTER: $12k → 9%COPLEY HOSPITAL: $9k → 9%GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER: $9k → 10%GRACE COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $9k → 11%NORTHEASTERN VERMONT REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $5k → 12%NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL: $9k → 14%MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CTR: $10k → 9%PORTER MEDICAL CENTER: $9k → 9%COPLEY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $5k → 9%GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 10%GRACE COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $7k → 11%NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL: $5k → 14%MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL & HEALTH CTR: $9k → 9%UVMHN - PORTER MEDICAL CENTER: $5k → 9%COPLEY HOSPITAL: $3k → 9%GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER: $4k → 10%GRACE COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $5k → 11%NORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL: $4k → 14%MT ASCUTNEY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 9%GRACE COTTAGE HOSPITAL: $2k → 11%BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $13k → 11%BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $3k → 11%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$427k · 9 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$427k
$14k

Still filing today

89%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

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

  • PH
    PORTER HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $66k · revenue +63%
  • WH
    Windsor Hospital Corporation
    5× · 2017–2023 · $62k · revenue +46%
  • GM
    Gifford Medical Center Inc
    5× · 2017–2023 · $56k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • NQ
    NVRH QUALITY MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $14k
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
Concord Hospital - Laconia

CH-Laconia is a charitable organization which exists to meet the health needs of individuals within the communities it serves.

Health
2
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center

Southern New Hampshire Medical Center is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve. Southern New Hampshire Medical Center is a provider of choice, delivering…

Health
3
Northeastern Vermont Regional Corp

To achieve openness, inclusiveness, and public participation through strategic planning and decision making in identifying ways to better meet the healthcare needs of the community.

Health
4
Valley Regional Hospital Inc

The mission of Valley Regional Hospital, Inc. is to improve community health, patient experience, and value. Our vision is to partner with the community to optimize health by ensuring access to high value health care.

Health
5
Windham Community Memorial Hospital Inc

The mission of Windham Community Memorial Hospital is to offer comprehensive services in an environment where innovation and teaching are integral to care; where we are proud to serve patients and one another; where meeting the challenge…

Health
6
Concord Hospital - Franklin

CH-Franklin is a charitable organization which exists to meet the health needs of individuals within the communities it serves.

Health
7
Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Medical Center

Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.

Health
8
The Saratoga Hospital

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
9
Penobscot Valley Hospital

To be our community's trusted healthcare partner, committed to the health and well-being of those we serve with compassion, quality, and excellence.

Health
10
Holyoke Medical Center Inc

Our Mission at Holyoke Medical Center is to improve the health of all people in our community. We do that with honesty, respect and dignity for our patients, visitors and staff. We do that through expert and compassionate care, education…

Health
11
Gifford Health Care Inc

The mission of Gifford Health Care, Inc. and its subsidiaries is to enhance the health and well-being of our communities by providing excellent patient-centered care including senior living services.

Health
12
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rutland Hospital 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PORTER HOSPITAL INC: $66,207 · HealthPORTER HOSPITAL INCWindsor Hospital Corporation: $62,211 · HealthWindsor Hospital CorporationGifford Medical Center Inc: $55,961 · HealthGifford Medical Center IncCarlos G Otis Health Care Center: $51,211 · HealthCarlos G Otis Health Care CenterCopley Hospital Inc: $50,231 · HealthCopley Hospital IncRutland Hospital Inc: $41,331 · HealthRutland Hospital IncNortheastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc: $27,751 · HealthNortheastern Vermont Regional Hosp IncCENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC: $22,500 · HealthSpringfield Hospital Inc: $22,500 · HealthBrattleboro Memorial Hospital: $15,989 · Health+3 more: $37,500 · Health+3 moreNORTH COUNTRY HOSPITAL: $56,211 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY H…NVRH QUALITY MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT: $13,960 · OtherNVRH QUALITY MA…
Health$453,392Other$70,171

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPORTER HOSPITAL INC: $66,207 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWindsor Hospital Corporation: $62,211 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGifford Medical Center Inc: $55,961 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCarlos G Otis Health Care Center: $51,211 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCopley Hospital Inc: $50,231 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRutland Hospital Inc: $41,331 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc: $27,751 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC: $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpringfield Hospital Inc: $22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrattleboro Memorial Hospital: $15,989 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern Medical Center: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Vermont Association o…The Vermont Community…Kinney Drugs Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vermont Association of Hospitals & Health Systems IncVT20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vermont Association of Hospitals & Health Systems Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Kinney Drugs Foundation 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Windsor Hospital Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • Northeastern Vermont Regional Hosp Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Memorial Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
  • Southwestern Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
  • Northwestern Medical Center: 0% of income from government
  • Springfield Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Gifford Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Copley Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutland Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 15 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 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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