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Vermont Public Health Association Inc

The vermont public health association (vtpha) is a membership organization whose purpose is to protect and promote personal, community and environmental health within the state of vermont.

$2.6M
Granted FY2023
25
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$489k
Largest
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20222023.

Health$1.4MPhilanthropy$330kHuman Services$270kPublic Safety & Disaster$73kCrime & Legal$28kInternational$21kArts & Culture$13kCivil Rights$9kOther$776k
02FY2023 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $489k
$28,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$92k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN COUNTY HEALTH CARE INC$489,105
PUBLIC HEALTH COUNCIL OF UPP VALLEY$243,955
UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VT INC$235,104
SOCIAL TINKERING$218,730
PORTER MEDICAL CENTER INC$216,717
BENNINGTON COUNTRY REGIONAL COMM$206,706
SOUTHEASTERN VT COMMUNITY ACTION$201,900
LAMOILLE HEALTH PARTNERS INC$184,472
WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH$126,376
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS$73,467
CENTRAL VT MEDICAL CENTER INC$70,937
UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY$52,653
OUT IN THE OPEN INC$28,800
VERMONTERS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REF$28,229
NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS$27,046
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOUTHEASTERN VT COMMUNITY ACTION: $202k → 11%SUSU COMMUNITY FARM: $10k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN VT COMMUNITY ACTION: $29k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 9 repeat orgs$602k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$2.3M
$602k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+7%

Still filing today

89%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $602k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalInternationalOther

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

  • PH
    Public Health Council of the Upper Valley
    2× · 2022–2023 · $268k · revenue +115% · 47% of their budget
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $259k · revenue +23%
  • LH
    Lamoille Health Partners Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $213k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • PM
    PORTER MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $217k · revenue +7%
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $73k · revenue -58%
  • CV
    CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $71k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cooperation Vermont

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

Community Improvement
2
Cooperation Vermont Community Land Trust

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

Community Improvement
3
Visiting Nurse & Community Health Inc

We are committed to providing the highest quality, compassionate home care to the patients entrusted to us. We are also steadfast in our pledge to be a responsive and innovative advocate for the communities we serve, focusing on health…

4
Valley Health Connections

To provide medical and dental referral services and enrollment services to low income populations in Vermont who are uninsured, underinsured, or at risk of losing insurance

Health
5
Vermont Center for Integrative

To educate and empower individuals to use traditional remedies as viable options in caring for themselves and their families.

Education
6
Vermont Center for Family Studies

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.

Human Services
7
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…

8
Vermont Psychological Services Former Behavior Therapy & Psychotherapy

Provide psychology & counseling to members of society who display behavior & psychological problems.

Health
9
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
10
Vermont Community Garden Network Inc

Our mission is to cultivate well-being by helping people of all ages access resources to grow food, build confidence and connect with each other. Our goals are to increase access to gardening resources, develop outreach and education…

Environment
11
The University of Vermont Medical Center

To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.

Health
12
Community Justice Network of Vermont

The community justice network of vermont unites the efforts of vermonters seeking to make restorative responses available for people whose lives are

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Connections Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elnu Abenaki 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

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 25 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Northern Counties Health Care Inc — $567,912 · HealthNorthern Counties Health Care IncPublic Health Council of the Upper Valley — $268,142 · HealthPublic Health Council of the Upper ValleyPORTER MEDICAL CENTER — $216,717 · HealthPORTER MEDICAL CENTERLamoille Health Partners Inc — $212,806 · HealthLamoille Health Partners IncCENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC — $70,937 · Health+1 more — $27,046 · HealthSOCIAL TINKERING CORP — $282,009 · OtherSOCIAL TINKERING CORPBENNINGTON COUNTRY REGIONAL COMM — $254,372 · OtherBENNINGTON COUNTRY REGIONAL COM…WASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $136,376 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH…+8 more — $125,496 · Other+8 moreUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC — $258,631 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…UNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC — $71,761 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $231,397 · Human ServicesSOUTHEASTE…OUT IN THE OPEN INC — $28,800 · Human ServicesOUT IN THE…SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS — $73,467 · Public Safety & DisasterVermonters for Criminal Justice Reform — $28,229 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC — $21,103 · International
Health$1,363,560Other$798,253Philanthropy$330,392Human Services$270,197Public Safety & Disaster$73,467Crime & Legal$28,229International$21,103

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNorthern Counties Health Care Inc — $567,912 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIAL TINKERING CORP — $282,009 over 2y, 80% of budgetPublic Health Council of the Upper Valley — $268,142 over 2y, 47% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC — $258,631 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $231,397 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPORTER MEDICAL CENTER — $216,717 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLamoille Health Partners Inc — $212,806 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $136,376 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE ORGANIZATIONS — $73,467 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WINDHAM COUNTY INC — $71,761 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC — $70,937 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUT IN THE OPEN INC — $28,800 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVermonters for Criminal Justice Reform — $28,229 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC — $27,046 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPUTNEY COMMUNITY CARES INC — $22,924 over 1y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC — $21,103 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetVERMONT ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetELNU ABENAKI INC — $12,727 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetWINOOSKI PARTNERSHIP FOR PREVENTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRoot Social Justice Center Inc — $9,082 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT40.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Thomas Thompson Trust · Vermont Foodbank · Td Charitable Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Public Health Association 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 25%
  • Winooski Partnership for Prevention Inc90% of income from government
  • Southeastern Vermont Community Action Inc83% of income from government
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc73% of income from government
  • Root Social Justice Center Inc42% of income from government
  • United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc34% of income from government
  • United Way of Windham County Inc26% of income from government
  • Out in the Open Inc25% of income from government
  • Community Resilience Organizations25% of income from government
  • Lamoille Health Partners Inc19% of income from government
  • Northern Counties Health Care Inc14% of income from government
  • Susu Community Farm Inc10% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Connections Inc7% of income from government
  • Washington County Mental Health Services Inc1% of income from government
  • Elnu Abenaki Inc0% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Medical Center Inc0% of income from government
  • Porter Medical Center0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Vermont Public Health Association Inc?

Find your warmest path to Vermont Public Health Association Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $11k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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