· Public charity
Vermont State Employees Credit Union
Our mission is dedicated to improving the quality of lives for all vermonters.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $636,207 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $651,789 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,582 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
- $250k+1 grant · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VSECU FOUNDATION | $550,000 |
| VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT | $12,912 |
| PREVENT CHILD ABUSE - VERMONT | $12,700 |
| COVER HOME REPAIR INC | $10,809 |
| NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT INC | $10,626 |
| HERITAGE FAMILY CARES 4 YOU | $10,000 |
| VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK | $8,041 |
| PATHWAYS VERMONT INC | $7,824 |
| VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER | $6,295 |
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 (FY20–22, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $616k 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
- VFVERMONT FOODBANK2× · 2018–2019 · $120k · revenue +35%
- CCCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC3× · 2019–2021 · $74k · revenue +61%
- CVCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC3× · 2019–2021 · $67k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- UCUS COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue +223%
- EAENERGY ACTION NETWORK INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -15%
- GCGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +107%
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 mission of cooperation vermont is to build thriving community economic and enviromental democracy.
The mission of cooperation vermont community land trust is to reclaim the commons.
Feed Every Need is fighting hunger and food insecurity in Vermont by providing prepared meals to partner organizations for distribution to htose in need.
The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.
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.
Vermont interfaith action is a faith-based, grassroots coalition of congregations that transforms ordinary people into empowered and engaged citizens. our goal is to create the hope, power, knowledge, and political will needed to make…
To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.
To ensure all vermonters are free from gun violence
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…
Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.
The vermont coalition of runaway and homeless youth programs mission is to ensure that youth have access to the support services they need to be safe and stable. to accomplish this, the coalition works to: ensure continued funding for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eastrise Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 51% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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. 28 of the 30 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 EASTRISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Lund Family Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGY ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Lamoille County Inc ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT ↗
- Who funds Clarina Howard Nichols Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVER HOME REPAIR INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE FAMILY CARES FOR YOU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds AGE WELL 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 · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · High Meadows Fund Inc · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Kelsey Trust · The Onda Foundation Inc · George W Mergens 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 State Employees Credit Union 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
- Groundworks Collaborative Inc — 73% of income from government
- North Central Vermont Recovery Center Inc — 69% of income from government
- Pathways Vermont Inc — 65% of income from government
- Age Well Inc — 60% of income from government
- Prevent Child Abuse Vermont — 58% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc — 52% of income from government
- Clarina Howard Nichols Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc — 47% of income from government
- Lund Family Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont — 31% of income from government
- Hunger Free Vermont Inc — 24% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc — 17% of income from government
- United Way of Lamoille County Inc — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- North Branch Nature Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
- Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Vermont Recovery Network Inc — 0% of income from government
- Energy Action Network Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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.