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Vt Association of Snow Travelers Inc

The vermont association of snow travelers, inc.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$71k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.4M
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $827,638, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,311,199 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,483,561 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 $10k10 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $578k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $178k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAD RIVER RIDGE RUNNERS$70,815
CONNECTICUT VALLEY SNO-RIDERS$54,826
SNOW FLAKE RIDGE RUNNERS CLUB$52,267
CANAAN BORDER RIDERS$48,573
DRIFT DUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB$29,728
NORTHEAST KINGDOM SNO BLASTERS INC$27,881
LUNENBURG POLAR BEARS SNOWMOBILE CL$27,216
PLYMOUTH SNOW SNEAKERS SNOWMOBILE C$25,918
GREEN MOUNTAIN ROAMERS SNOWMOBILE C$25,741
GREEN MOUNTAIN SNO DOGS$24,324
MIDDLE VALLEY POLAR BEARS$23,943
SIDE HILL CRONCHERS INC$23,650
BRIDGEWATER SNO-ZIPPERS$23,455
ORLEANS SNOWSTORMERS INC$23,355
WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC$22,538
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VERMONT SNOW TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $80k → 9%FRIGID FROST FIGHTERS: $19k → 10%DEERFIELD VALLEY STUMP JUMPERS: $19k → 11%GREEN MOUNTAIN SNO DOGS: $24k → 11%CANAAN BORDER RIDERS: $49k → 12%WEYWEHAEUSER COMPANY: $25k → 13%SNO BEES: $19k → 9%WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC: $69k → 11%CONNECTICUT VALLEY SNO-RIDERS: $55k → 12%GRAFTON OUTING CLUB: $34k → 11%WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC: $34k → 11%CANAAN BORDER RIDERS: $49k → 12%CHITTENDEN DAMMERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $27k → 12%BRIDGEWATER SNO-ZIPPERS: $23k → 9%WOODFORD SNOBUSTERS INC: $23k → 11%SNOW FLAKE RIDGE RUNNERS CLUB: $52k → 12%CONNECTICUT VALLEY SNO-RIDERS: $23k → 12%GIHON TRK PACKERS: $64k → 9%SNOW FLAKE RIDGE RUNNERS CLUB: $37k → 12%CANAAN BORDER RIDERS: $38k → 12%ORLEANS SNOWSTORMERS INC: $23k → 14%CONNECTICUT VALLEY SNO-RIDERS: $21k → 12%SNOPACKERS OF LAMOILLE COUNTY: $22k → 9%CANAAN BORDER RIDERS: $27k → 12%TWINFIELD SNOW TRAVELERS: $37k → 9%LYNDON SNO CRUISERS: $22k → 12%SIDE HILL CRONCHERS INC: $24k → 9%LYNDON SNO CRUISERS: $21k → 12%MOOSE RIVER ROCK DODGERS: $19k → 12%DRIFT DUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $45k → 14%NORTHEAST KINGDOM SNO BLASTERS INC: $28k → 12%DRIFT DUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $30k → 14%MIDDLE VALLEY POLAR BEARS: $24k → 10%MAD RIVER RIDGE RUNNERS: $71k → 9%WASHINGTON SNOW FLYERS: $20k → 10%PLYMOUTH SNOW SNEAKERS SNOWMOBILE C: $38k → 9%MAD RIVER RIDGE RUNNERS: $20k → 9%PLYMOUTH SNOW SNEAKERS SNOWMOBILE C: $28k → 9%PLYMOUTH SNOW SNEAKERS SNOWMOBILE C: $26k → 9%BRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $29k → 12%BRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $22k → 12%LONG HILL SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $19k → 9%BAYLEY HAZEN ROAD SC: $22k → 12%GREEN MOUNTAIN ROAMERS SNOWMOBILE C: $26k → 9%BAYLEY HAZEN ROAD SC: $21k → 12%LUNENBURG POLAR BEARS SNOWMOBILE CL: $27k → 12%CHESTER SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $22k → 9%CHESTER SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $20k → 9%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 55 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -30% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
21

Total granted

$2.9M
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-30%

Still filing today

35%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsPublic BenefitEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • WS
    Woodford Snobusters
    4× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +63% · 37% of their budget
  • DD
    DRIFT DUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +47%
  • CV
    CONNECTICUT VALLEY SNO-RIDERS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $118k · revenue +412% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • VS
    VERMONT SNOW TRAILS CONSERVANCY CHARITABLE TR
    one grant, 2024 · $80k
  • GO
    GRAFTON OUTING CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $34k
  • MB
    M BROWN TRUCKING & SNOWPLOWING
    one grant, 2024 · $17k
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
Snow Valley Riders Inc

Snowmobile trail maintenance

Environment
2
Crane Lake Voyageurs Snowmobile Club

Maintain and improve snowmobile trails

Recreation & Sports
3
White Mountain Trail Club Inc

Creation and maintenance of public snowmobile traiils

Recreation & Sports
4
Williamson Driftriders Snowmobile

We provide snowmobilers trail creation

Education
5
Range Trail Committee

Promote the sport of snowmobiling.

—
6
Seven Lakes Snowmobile Club

Recreation

Recreation & Sports
7
Blue Mountain Snowdusters Outdoor Recreation Club Inc

Maintain outdoor recreation trails for three communities

Human Services
8
Presque Isle Sno-Trails

Trail maintenance - department of natural resources

—
9
Frosty Snowmobile Club Inc

Trail development and grooming

Recreation & Sports
10
North Country Snowmobil Club Inc

Grooming and maintenance of snowmobile trails in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Volunteer run organization.

—
11
Lake Louise Snowmachine Club Inc

Promote safe snowmobiling and trail use.

Recreation & Sports
12
Houghton Lake Trail Groomers

Maintain snowmobile and orv trails for public enjoyment

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Poultney Valley Snowmobile Devils Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 82 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Woodford Snobusters: $135,007 · OtherDRIFT DUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC: $129,791 · OtherMAD RIVER RIDGE RUNNERS: $119,483 · OtherCONNECTICUT VALLEY SNO-RIDERS INC: $117,830 · OtherPLYMOUTH SNOW SNEAKERS SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATES INC: $99,230 · OtherSNOW FLAKE RIDGE RUNNERS CLUB: $95,357 · Other+63 more: $1,920,974 · Other+63 moreCANAAN BORDER RIDERS INC: $182,145 · Recreation & SportsCANAAN BORDER RIDER…BRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC: $96,019 · Recreation & SportsBRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE…Northeast Kingdom Snow Blasters Inc: $87,696 · Recreation & SportsNortheast Kingdom S…COUNTRY RIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC: $48,435 · Recreation & SportsCOUNTRY RIDERS SNOW…TWEED VALLEY TRAVELERS INC: $38,380 · Recreation & SportsTWEED VALLEY TRAVEL…SNO-BEES INC: $27,175 · Recreation & SportsGREEN MOUNTAIN SNO DOGS: $24,324 · Recreation & SportsCAVENDISH GREEN MOUNTAIN SNOW FLEAS: $18,735 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $26,403 · Recreation & SportsChittenden Dammers Inc: $58,041 · EnvironmentWILLISTON HILL HAWKS INC: $9,098 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTH COUNTRY MOUNTAINEERS: $6,920 · Public Benefit
Other$2,617,672Recreation & Sports$549,312Environment$58,041Public Safety & Disaster$9,098Public Benefit$6,920

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

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANAAN BORDER RIDERS INC: $182,145 over 6y, 54% of budgetWoodford Snobusters: $135,007 over 4y, 37% of budgetDRIFT DUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC: $129,791 over 6y, 16% of budgetCONNECTICUT VALLEY SNO-RIDERS INC: $117,830 over 5y, 27% of budgetBRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC: $96,019 over 6y, 11% of budgetNortheast Kingdom Snow Blasters Inc: $87,696 over 6y, 22% of budgetLyndon Sno Cruisers: $72,168 over 5y, 38% of budgetButtonwood Chesterites Snowmobile Club Inc: $66,960 over 5y, 31% of budgetLUNENBURG POLAR BEARS SNOWMOBILE CLUB: $61,206 over 4y, 54% of budgetChittenden Dammers Inc: $58,041 over 4y, 39% of budgetCOUNTRY RIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC: $48,435 over 5y, 13% of budgetLamoille County Sno-Packers Inc: $42,739 over 4y, 46% of budgetSIDE HILL CRONCHERS INC: $39,307 over 4y, 23% of budgetTWEED VALLEY TRAVELERS INC: $38,380 over 4y, 19% of budgetDeerfield Valley Stump Jumpers Inc: $37,900 over 3y, 19% of budgetSNO-BEES INC: $27,175 over 2y, 20% of budgetGREEN MOUNTAIN SNO DOGS: $24,324 over 1y, 77% of budgetE Z RIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC: $22,303 over 2y, 15% of budgetCAVENDISH GREEN MOUNTAIN SNOW FLEAS: $18,735 over 2y, 39% of budgetPOULTNEY VALLEY SNOWMOBILE DEVILS INC: $15,963 over 2y, 40% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY MOUNTAINEERS: $6,920 over 1y, 21% of budgetFoote of The Mountain Sno Travelers: $6,504 over 1y, 12% 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.

  • Who funds CANAAN BORDER RIDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Woodford Snobusters ↗
  • Who funds DRIFT DUSTERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT VALLEY SNO-RIDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds Northeast Kingdom Snow Blasters Inc ↗
  • Who funds Lyndon Sno Cruisers ↗
  • Who funds Buttonwood Chesterites Snowmobile Club Inc ↗
  • Who funds LUNENBURG POLAR BEARS SNOWMOBILE CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Chittenden Dammers Inc ↗
  • Who funds COUNTRY RIDERS SNOWMOBILE CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds Lamoille County Sno-Packers Inc ↗
  • Who funds SIDE HILL CRONCHERS INC ↗
  • Who funds TWEED VALLEY TRAVELERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Deerfield Valley Stump Jumpers Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vt Association of Snow Travelers Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vt Association of Snow Travelers Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Tweed Valley Travelers Inc: 32% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 82 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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