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Vermont State Employees Credit Union

Our mission is dedicated to improving the quality of lives for all vermonters.

$652k
Granted FY2022
10
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182022.

Philanthropy$574kFood & Nutrition$169kCommunity Improvement$164kHuman Services$64kEnvironment$48kHousing & Shelter$40kCivil Rights$21kHealth$18kOther$0
02FY2022 · 10 grants

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
$10,626
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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.

area typical 7%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $50k → 9%LUND FAMILY CENTER: $13k → 10%HERITAGE FAMILY CARES 4 YOU: $10k → 12%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION: $10k → 9%PATHWAYS VERMONT INC: $8k → 10%RESOURCE: $11k → 10%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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$351k · 7 repeat orgs$778k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

$351k
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+73%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $616k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • VF
    VERMONT FOODBANK
    2× · 2018–2019 · $120k · revenue +35%
  • CC
    CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $74k · revenue +61%
  • CV
    CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $67k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • UC
    US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue +223%
  • EA
    ENERGY ACTION NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -15%
  • GC
    GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one 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.

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
Vermont Realtors Charitable Foundation Inc
Public Benefit
4
Feed Every Need

Feed Every Need is fighting hunger and food insecurity in Vermont by providing prepared meals to partner organizations for distribution to htose in need.

Food & Nutrition
5
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc

The center for an agricultural economy supports rural communities and working landscapes by building a more interconnected local food system.

Environment
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
Vermont Interfaith Action Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Vermont Trails & Greenways Council

To promote trails and greenways and to ensure that people will always have access to the landscape of vermont.

Environment
9
Gunsensevt

To ensure all vermonters are free from gun violence

Civil Rights
10
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…

11
Vermont Family Network Inc

Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.

Human Services
12
Vermont Coalition of Runaway and Homeless Youth Programs Inc

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPrivate Grantmaking Foundat…Mental Health & Addiction R…Vermont Statewide Infrastru…Community Service Organizat…Vulnerable Population Suppo…Affordable Housing Developm…Diverse Mission Organizatio…Education & Professional As…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%4%<5yr12%4%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr20%35%20–35yr16%31%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%51%<5yr12%1%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr20%10%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 51% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
9%
294/3,357

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EASTRISE FOUNDATION — $550,000 · PhilanthropyEASTRISE FOUNDATION+2 more — $23,831 · PhilanthropyCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $74,000 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE COMM…Lund Family Center Inc — $26,614 · Human ServicesLund Family C…RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC — $10,800 · Human ServicesRESOURCE A NO…HERITAGE FAMILY CARES FOR YOU FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesHERITAGE FAMI…PATHWAYS VERMONT INC — $7,824 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS VERM…AGE WELL INC — $5,620 · Human ServicesVERMONT FOODBANK — $120,000 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOOD…GREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $7,400 · Food & NutritionGREATER BENN…US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC — $20,800 · OtherUS COMMITTEE F…GROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC — $15,000 · OtherGROUNDWORKS CO…CITY OF BURLINGTON — $15,000 · OtherCITY OF BURLIN…PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT — $12,700 · OtherPREVENT CHILD …Clarina Howard Nichols Center Inc — $11,100 · OtherClarina Howard…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — $10,966 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF …NORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC — $9,900 · OtherNORTH CENTRAL …COVER HOME REPAIR INC — $10,809 · OtherCOVER HOME REP…COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $6,295 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,966 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF …NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT — $10,626 · OtherNORTHEAST ORGA…VERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC — $8,041 · OtherVERMONT RECOVE…HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC — $7,500 · OtherCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $67,148 · Community ImprovementVERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC — $22,912 · Community ImprovementENERGY ACTION NETWORK INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $6,744 · EnvironmentINTERVALE CENTER INC — $23,476 · Employment
Philanthropy$573,831Human Services$134,858Food & Nutrition$127,400Other$149,703Community Improvement$90,060Environment$36,744Employment$23,476

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEASTRISE FOUNDATION — $550,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $120,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $74,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $67,148 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLund Family Center Inc — $26,614 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC — $23,476 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC — $22,912 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUS COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC — $20,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENERGY ACTION NETWORK INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetUnited Way of Lamoille County Inc — $16,831 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetGROUNDWORKS COLLABORATIVE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT — $12,700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetClarina Howard Nichols Center Inc — $11,100 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,966 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVER HOME REPAIR INC — $10,809 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC — $10,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATION OF VERMONT — $10,626 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH BRANCH NATURE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHERITAGE FAMILY CARES FOR YOU FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL VERMONT RECOVERY CENTER INC — $9,900 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVERMONT RECOVERY NETWORK INC — $8,041 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPATHWAYS VERMONT INC — $7,824 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGER FREE VERMONT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER BENNINGTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $7,400 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $6,744 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC — $6,295 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAGE WELL INC — $5,620 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationVT48.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 24%
  • Capstone Community Action Inc84% of income from government
  • Groundworks Collaborative Inc73% of income from government
  • North Central Vermont Recovery Center Inc69% of income from government
  • Pathways Vermont Inc65% of income from government
  • Age Well Inc60% of income from government
  • Prevent Child Abuse Vermont58% of income from government
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc52% of income from government
  • Clarina Howard Nichols Center Inc51% of income from government
  • Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Inc47% of income from government
  • Lund Family Center Inc34% of income from government
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont31% of income from government
  • Hunger Free Vermont Inc24% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc23% of income from government
  • Vermont Council On Rural Development Inc17% of income from government
  • United Way of Lamoille County Inc14% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank13% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc13% of income from government
  • North Branch Nature Center Inc4% of income from government
  • Cover Home Repair Inc3% of income from government
  • Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc2% of income from government
  • Vermont Recovery Network Inc0% of income from government
  • Energy Action Network Inc0% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely 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.

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 30 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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