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Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc

We nurture the economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity of people, businesses, organizations and communities in vermont for the benefit and well-being of all who live here.

$364k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$330k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$295,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$330k67%
FY20234$55k50%
FY20223$31k0%
FY20211$12k0%
FY20205$99k20%
FY20196$82k100%
FY20185$137k80%
FY20173$84kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$370kCommunity Improvement$237kFood & Nutrition$87kScience & Tech$50kHealth$50kEducation$36k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MI
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Liberation Ecosystem Inc$295,000116%
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc$129,82224%
Third Sector New England Inc$86,63350%
University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated$36,01940%
Hartford Food System Inc$25,21632%
Onboard Data$25,0001n/a
Rock Rabbit$25,0001n/a
Emrgy Inc$25,0001n/a
Af Mensah$25,0001n/a
Prosumergrid$25,0001n/a
Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Liberation Ecosystem Inc$295,000116%
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc$129,82224%
Third Sector New England Inc$86,63350%
University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated$36,01940%
Hartford Food System Inc$25,21632%
Onboard Data$25,0001n/a
Rock Rabbit$25,0001n/a
Emrgy Inc$25,0001n/a
Af Mensah$25,0001n/a
Prosumergrid$25,0001n/a
Ceres Greens LLC$25,0001n/a
Aghelp$25,0001n/a
Intervale Center Inc$24,00021%
Franklin County Community Development Corporation$20,73321%
Rhode Island Food Policy Council$10,80011%
Food Connects$10,58812%
Vermont Farm-To-School Inc$10,00011%
Shelburne Farms$6,5401n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLiberation Ecosystem Inc: $295,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetVermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc: $129,822 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetThird Sector New England Inc: $86,633 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated: $36,019 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Food System Inc: $25,216 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetIntervale Center Inc: $24,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFranklin County Community Development Corporation: $20,733 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRhode Island Food Policy Council: $10,800 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFood Connects: $10,588 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVermont Farm-To-School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget

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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 10.

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.

Henry P Kendall FoundationMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry P Kendall Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · 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.

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About Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc

How much does Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc give?
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc reported 3 itemized grants totaling $330,000, out of $363,850 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (45%), Community Improvement (29%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Liberation Ecosystem Inc ($295k), Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc ($130k), Third Sector New England Inc ($87k).
Does Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Henry P Kendall Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc based?
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc is based in VT.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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