Vermont · Public charity
Vital Communities Inc
Vital communities engages upper valley people, organizations, and communities to create equitable solutions to our region's challenges, with a focus on those disproportionately impacted by them.
- $347k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $316k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,092
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $241,188
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Vital Communities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $316k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $7k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $163k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $11k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions | $241,188 | 1 | n/a |
| Global Village Foods | $163,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Organization for Refugee And | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Green Mountain Economic Development Corp | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Two Rivers Ottauquechee Regional Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Moon and Stars Corp | $9,092 | 1 | n/a |
| Kearsarge Food Hub Inc | $7,777 | 1 | n/a |
| Feeding the Valley Alliance | $7,285 | 1 | n/a |
| Sustainable Woodstock Inc | $6,536 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Vital Communities Inc
- How much does Vital Communities Inc give?
- Vital Communities Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $316,477, out of $347,248 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Vital Communities Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Food & Nutrition (39%), Community Improvement (7%).
- Who are Vital Communities Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions ($241k), Global Village Foods ($163k), Organization for Refugee And ($15k).
- Does Vital Communities Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vital Communities Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Vital Communities Inc based?
- Vital Communities Inc is based in VT.
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