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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$295k
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 2024.

Environment$370kCommunity Improvement$237kFood & Nutrition$87kScience & Tech$50kHealth$50kEducation$36k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $330,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $363,850 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,850 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $250k+1 grant · $295k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIBERATION ECOSYSTEM$295,000
ROCK RABBIT$25,000
INTERVALE CENTER$10,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ONBOARD DATA: $25k → 8%FRANKLIN COUNTY COMM DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 14%THIRD SECTOR NE MISSIONWORKS: $32k → 16%ROCK RABBIT: $25k → 10%AGHELP: $25k → 12%HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM: $13k → 11%RHODE ISLAND FOOD POLICY COUNCIL: $11k → 14%EMRGY INC: $25k → 13%PROSUMERGRID: $25k → 14%AF MENSAH: $25k → 11%CERES GREENS LLC: $25k → 9%SHELBURNE FARMS: $7k → 10%FOOD CONNECTS: $11k → 11%LIBERATION ECOSYSTEM: $295k → 12%GREEN MOUNTAIN FARM TO SCHOOL: $10k → 14%UNH FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%FRANKLIN COUNTY COMM DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 14%THIRD SECTOR NE MISSIONWORKS: $15k → 16%HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM: $7k → 11%FARM TO PLATE CHAIRS: $66k → 9%THE INTERVALE CENTER: $14k → 10%UNH FOUNDATION: $11k → 9%THIRD SECTOR NE MISSIONWORKS: $15k → 16%HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM: $5k → 11%FARM TO PLATE CHAIRS: $64k → 9%INTERVALE CENTER: $10k → 10%UNH FOUNDATION: $7k → 9%THIRD SECTOR NE MISSIONWORKS: $13k → 16%UNH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%THIRD SECTOR NE MISSIONWORKS: $12k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MI
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
GA
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$322k · 6 repeat orgs$508k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$322k
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+69%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEmploymentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • VS
    VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $130k · revenue +79%
  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $87k · revenue +27%
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    4× · 2019–2023 · $36k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • OD
    ONBOARD DATA
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • EI
    EMRGY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • AM
    AF MENSAH
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
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
Vermont Fresh Network Corporation

Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.

Community Improvement
2
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
3
Food Action

Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for food and farming systems to become economically prosperous, ecologically sound and socially equitable.

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4
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
5
Vermont Farmers Market Education Center

To support the local food system through access, infrastructure and education

Education
6
Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont

The northeast organic farming association of vermont promotes organic practices to build an ecomnomically viable, ecologically sound and socially just vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.

Arts & Culture
7
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
8
Fair Food Network Inc

Fair food network is organized to grow community health, wealth, and resilience through food, to increase access to affordable healthy food, help local food economies thrive and build resilience in local food and agriculture systems.

Food & Nutrition
9
East End Food Institute

East End Food is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support, promote and advocate for farmers and producers, while ensuring everyone in the community can enjoy and be nourished by local food. We envision the East End of Long…

Food & Nutrition
10
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
11
Fork Food Lab

Fork Food Lab is a nonprofit food business incubator and shared commercial kitchen focused on growing the local food economy. We support the growth of sustainable Maine-based businesses by providing entrepreneurs with work space,…

Environment
12
New England Dairy and Food Council

Provide the latest science-based nutrition information and research to a variety of audiences, develop effective and exciting nutrition and wellness programs, and educate consumers, media, educators, school administrators and health…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIBERATION ECOSYSTEM INC: $295,000 · Food & NutritionLIBERATION ECOSYSTEM INCHARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC: $25,216 · Food & NutritionHARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC+3 more: $31,388 · Food & Nutrition+3 moreONBOARD DATA: $25,000 · OtherONBOARD DATAROCK RABBIT: $25,000 · OtherROCK RABBITEMRGY INC: $25,000 · OtherEMRGY INCAF MENSAH: $25,000 · OtherAF MENSAHPROSUMERGRID: $25,000 · OtherPROSUMERGRIDCERES GREENS LLC: $25,000 · OtherCERES GREENS LLCAGHELP: $25,000 · OtherAGHELPVERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC: $129,822 · EmploymentVERMONT SUSTAINABLE …INTERVALE CENTER INC: $24,000 · EmploymentINTERVALE CENTER INCTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $86,633 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR N…FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,733 · Community ImprovementFRANKLIN COUNT…UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $36,019 · EducationSHELBURNE FARMS: $6,540 · Environment
Food & Nutrition$351,604Other$175,000Employment$153,822Community Improvement$107,366Education$36,019Environment$6,540

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

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
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.

Henry P Kendall Found…The Vermont Community…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Franklin County Community Development Corporation: 22% of income from government
  • Food Connects: 15% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Farm-to-School Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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 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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