· Public charity
Vt Association of Snow Travelers Inc
The vermont association of snow travelers, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $861,848 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,056,656 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,194,808 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $141k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $572k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $149k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT SNOW TRAILS CONSERVANCY | $80,000 |
| WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC | $69,333 |
| DRIFT DUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB | $44,677 |
| PLYMOUTH SNOW SNEAKERS SNOWMOBILE C | $38,025 |
| SNOW FLAKE RIDGE RUNNERS CLUB | $37,205 |
| TWINFIELD SNOW TRAVELERS | $37,122 |
| GRAFTON OUTING CLUB | $34,257 |
| CANAAN BORDER RIDERS | $27,458 |
| LYNDON SNO CRUISERS | $22,381 |
| SNOPACKERS OF LAMOILLE COUNTY | $21,910 |
| CHESTER SNOWMOBILE CLUB | $21,747 |
| FRIGID FROST FIGHTERS | $19,412 |
| SNO BEES | $18,826 |
| ANDOVER MOUNTAINEERS | $18,665 |
| M BROWN TRUCKING & SNOWPLOWING | $17,165 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of your 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -54% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WSWoodford Snobusters3× · 2021–2024 · $112k · revenue +63% · 37% of their budget
- DDDRIFT DUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +47%
- BSBRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC5× · 2020–2024 · $74k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $12k
- NSNORTHFIELD SNOWMOBILERS INCone grant, 2020 · $11k
- NENEWARK E-Z RIDERS INCone grant, 2021 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Snowmobile trail maintenance
Maintain and improve snowmobile trails
Creation and maintenance of public snowmobile traiils
We provide snowmobilers trail creation
Promote the sport of snowmobiling.
Recreation
Maintain outdoor recreation trails for three communities
Trail maintenance - department of natural resources
Trail development and grooming
Grooming and maintenance of snowmobile trails in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Volunteer run organization.
Promote safe snowmobiling and trail use.
Maintain snowmobile and orv trails for public enjoyment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poultney Valley Snowmobile Devils Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brighton Snowmobile Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 22. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 76 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 CANAAN BORDER RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Woodford Snobusters ↗
- Who funds DRIFT DUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT VALLEY SNO-RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Northeast Kingdom Snow Blasters Inc ↗
- Who funds Buttonwood Chesterites Snowmobile Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Lyndon Sno Cruisers ↗
- Who funds Chittenden Dammers Inc ↗
- Who funds Lamoille County Sno-Packers Inc ↗
- Who funds LUNENBURG POLAR BEARS SNOWMOBILE CLUB ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY RIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Deerfield Valley Stump Jumpers Inc ↗
- Who funds TWEED VALLEY TRAVELERS INC ↗
- Who funds E Z RIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Vt Association of Snow Travelers Inc 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.
- Tweed Valley Travelers Inc — 32% 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.