· Public charity
Vt Association for the Education of Young Children
The vermont association for the education of young children (vtaeyc) advances equity and excellence in early childhood education with early childhood educators as our foundation.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of VT ASSOCIATION FOR THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 49 grants below total $836,101 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,491,690 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,655,589 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $208k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $337k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $291k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT STATE COLLEGES | $230,554 |
| VT HIGHER ED COLLABORATIVE INC | $60,823 |
| LS GROUP HOLDINGS LLC | $46,055 |
| MYERS PROUTY CHILDREN'S CAMPUSES I | $32,681 |
| THE AFTERSCHOOL COLLABORATIVE LLC | $30,533 |
| LITTLE ONES UNIVERSITY INC | $26,520 |
| UNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNI | $24,928 |
| MARY JOHNSONS CHILDREN'S CENTER IN | $23,779 |
| HORIZON EARLY LEARNING PROGRAM LLC | $19,813 |
| THE PUMPKIN PATCH LLC | $17,550 |
| GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA | $15,345 |
| MOUNT ABRAHAM UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRI | $14,896 |
| OTTER CREEK CHILD CENTER INC | $14,720 |
| NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION | $13,656 |
| APPLE TREE LEARNING CENTERS INC | $12,719 |
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 (FY25–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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.
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.
Robins Nest Childrens Center provides high-quality early care and education in a play-based setting.
Rainbow Playschool is a nonprofit organization in the foothills of Mt. Tom in Woodstock, Vermont. We provide daycare and preschool services, emphasizing play and outdoor education, to children between the ages of 6 weeks and 5 years old.…
Education of childcare workers
Mountain Tots preschool provides high quality early learning enrichment programs that enhances educational, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development as well as Kindergarten-readiness. We provide preschool and childcare…
Mountain Village is a public Nature-based, Montessori school, engaging students in experiences that integrate natural environments with the Montessori curriculum, igniting achievement in academic, social-emotional and physical development.
The Children's Garden Early Learning Center is designed to meet the early care and educational needs for children ages 6 weeks through their 8th birthday. Serving up to 70 children on a full or part time basis through Early Head Start,…
Preschool for children
Daycare services
To be a learning community where children, from infants to school age, come together with experienced and responsive teachers to learn about themselves, each other, and the world.
A PreK childcare center and KG-Grade 8 school that values each students unique learning experience, fostering academic excellence, emotional intelligence, and social and environmental justice through five core concepts trust, sharing,…
To provide a safe, nurturing, and stimulating environment for children. To seek balance in addressing each child as a unique social, emotional, intellectual, and physical person. To empower children to be responsible, caring, creative,…
To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Childcare Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Willowell Foundation Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 50 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 VT-HEC INC ↗
- Who funds MYERS PROUTY CHILDREN'S CAMPUSES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Otter Creek Child Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VT INC ↗
- Who funds Red Clover Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WHOLE CHILD LEARNING CO ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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: Let's Grow Kids Inc · Vermont Afterschool Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · First Children's Finance Group · Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council · First Children's Finance · United Way of Addison County Inc · Seventh Generation Foundation Inc · Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation · Vermont Foodbank · Vermont Energy Investment Corporation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc
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 Vt Association for the Education of Young Children 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
- Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc — 82% of income from government
- Arlington Area Childcare Inc — 78% of income from government
- Myers Prouty Children's Campuses Inc — 78% of income from government
- Garland School Inc — 66% of income from government
- Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc — 54% of income from government
- Champlain Islands Parent Child Center — 53% of income from government
- Bristol Family Center — 52% of income from government
- Northshire Day School — 39% of income from government
- Red Clover Childrens Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Otter Creek Child Center Inc — 32% of income from government
- Montessori School of Central Vt Inc — 31% of income from government
- The Willowell Foundation Inc — 28% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc — 23% of income from government
- Ascension Childcare Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Little School — 13% of income from government
- Hunger Mountain Child Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Crows Path Incorporated — 5% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- Vt-Hec Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southwestern Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 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.