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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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$231k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$1.4MHuman Services$100kRecreation & Sports$12kCommunity Improvement$11kInternational$7kHealth$6kEnvironment$5k
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 49 grants below total $836,101, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,491,690 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,655,589 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $208k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $337k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $291k
$7,643
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENT: $8k → 9%MARY JOHNSONS CHILDREN'S CENTER IN: $24k → 9%CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $9k → 9%WATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER IN: $5k → 10%ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC: $7k → 11%NORTHEAST KINGDOM COMMUNITY ACTION: $14k → 14%ASCENSION CHILDCARE INC: $5k → 10%UNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNI: $25k → 11%HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILDREN'S CENTER: $7k → 9%GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA: $15k → 10%BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER: $9k → 10%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.
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 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
Robins Nest Children's Center

Robins Nest Childrens Center provides high-quality early care and education in a play-based setting.

Human Services
2
Woodstock Community Playschool Inc Dba Rainbow Playschool

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.…

Human Services
3
Nek Community Growth Center

Education of childcare workers

Education
4
Mountain Tots Preschool

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…

Education
5
Mountain Village Charter School

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.

Education
6
Childrens Garden Early Learning Center Inc

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,…

Human Services
7
Hampshire Nursery School Inc

Preschool for children

Education
8
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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9
Infant Toddler Children's Center Inc

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.

Human Services
10
The Schoolhouse Learning Center Inc

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,…

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11
Tamworth Pre-school Inc

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,…

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12
Kids Corner Inc

To provide affordable, yet high quality, developmentally appropriate day care services to local communities in a safe, responsive environment for children.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Childcare Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
6/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT - MONTPELIER: $805,601 · OtherCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF VERMONT - MONTPELIERLS GROUP HOLDINGS LLC: $46,055 · Other+25 more: $274,968 · Other+25 moreVT-HEC INC: $160,742 · EducationVT-HEC INCMYERS PROUTY CHILDREN'S CAMPUSES INC: $32,681 · EducationMYERS PROUTY CHILD…CHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $19,040 · EducationCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE …+5 more: $33,633 · Education+5 moreUNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC: $24,928 · Human ServicesUNITED CH…Mary Johnson Children's Center Inc: $23,779 · Human ServicesMary John…GREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $15,345 · Human ServicesGREATER B…Northeast Kingdom Community Action Inc: $13,656 · Human ServicesNortheast…BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER: $9,467 · Human ServicesBRISTOL F…CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $8,856 · Human ServicesCAPSTONE …CHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENTER: $7,581 · Human ServicesCHAMPLAIN…ARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC: $6,839 · Human ServicesARLINGTON…HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILD CENTER INC: $6,635 · Human ServicesWATCH THEM GROW CHILDCARE CENTER: $5,352 · Human ServicesASCENSION CHILDCARE INC: $5,346 · Human ServicesCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $10,854 · Community ImprovementTHE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC: $6,825 · PhilanthropySOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $6,480 · HealthCROWS PATH INCORPORATED: $5,444 · Environment
Other$1,126,624Education$246,096Human Services$127,784Community Improvement$10,854Philanthropy$6,825Health$6,480Environment$5,444

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVT-HEC INC: $160,742 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF BENNINGTON COUNTY INC: $24,928 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMary Johnson Children's Center Inc: $23,779 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $19,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BURLINGTON YMCA INC: $15,345 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOtter Creek Child Center Inc: $14,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNortheast Kingdom Community Action Inc: $13,656 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $10,854 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL: $9,590 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $8,856 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE SCHOOL: $8,817 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHAMPLAIN ISLANDS PARENT CHILD CENTER: $7,581 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CENTRAL VT INC: $7,524 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRed Clover Childrens Center Inc: $7,364 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetARLINGTON AREA CHILDCARE INC: $6,839 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC: $6,825 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILD CENTER INC: $6,635 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $6,480 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARLAND SCHOOL INC: $6,138 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $5,743 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROWS PATH INCORPORATED: $5,444 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Let's Grow Kids IncVermont Afterschool I…The Vermont Community…First Children's Fina…Building Bright Futur…First Children's Fina…United Way of Addison…Seventh Generation Fo…Vermont Childrens Tru…Vermont FoodbankVermont Energy Invest…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…
Let's Grow Kids IncVT53.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vt Association for the Education of Young Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vt Association for the Education of Young Children. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely 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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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