· Public charity
Watersheds United Vermont Inc
Wuvs mission is to empower community-based watershed groups in all parts of the state to protect and restore vermonts waters.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $448k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $593k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTICUT RIVER CONSERVANCY | $333,198 |
| LEWIS CREEK ASSOCIATION | $259,906 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER | $182,766 |
| FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN | $170,172 |
| WHITE RIVER PARTNERSHIP | $163,391 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $135,937 |
| MEMPHREMAGOG WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $118,588 |
| VERMONT LAND TRUST | $108,386 |
| FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION | $102,762 |
| MISSISQUOI RIVER BASIN ASSOCIATION | $96,999 |
| REDSTART INC | $89,813 |
| OTTAUQUECHEE NRCD | $74,502 |
| WINDHAM COUNTY NRCD | $63,744 |
| INTERVALE CENTER INC | $52,360 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MAD RIVER | $47,900 |
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 (FY24–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 14 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $401k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $728k · revenue +100% · 46% of their budget
- MWMEMPHREMAGOG WATERSHED ASSOC INC5× · 2020–2024 · $687k · revenue +311% · 60% of their budget
CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $616k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CCCALEDONIA COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCESone grant, 2023 · $89k
- TOTOWN OF WALLINGFORDone grant, 2023 · $20k
- PVPASSUMPSIC VALLEY LAND TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $19k
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.
To protect and enhance the natural resources of vermont in order to promote the well-being of present and future generations of vermonters and visitors; preserve and aid in the preservation of open land along rivers and lakes; protect and…
To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed
Protect and preserve the natural resources of the farmington river watershed area
Merrimack river watershed council's mission is to protect the merrimack river watershed and promote the wise use of its watershed. this is accomplished through water quality monitoring, land restoration and protection, watershed education…
Acquire and otherwise manage conservation of lands within the watershed of Higgins Lake
The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…
The mission of the 30 Mile River Watershed Association (30 Mile) is to work as a community for clean and healthy lakes, ponds and streams in our watershed. Since 2008, 30 Mile has led efforts to protect these waters from the growing…
To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.
Monitor Lake Winnisquam Water Quality, Education & Community Involvement Strategies, Develop and implement a watershed management plan, Coordinate Lake Host Program for Lake Winnisquam
Protection & preservation of the Necanicum watershed.
To coordinate actions for protecting and restoring the health of owasco lake and its watershed to ensure that owasco lake will serve as a source of public drinking water, a recreational asset, an economic driver, and an important natural…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coutts-Moriarty Camp 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 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 42 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 FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHREMAGOG WATERSHED ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds White River Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds Lewis Creek Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN ↗
- Who funds MISSISQUOI RIVER BASIN ASSN ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MAD RIVER ↗
- Who funds VERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Addison County River Watch Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds Lake Dunmore Fern Lake Association ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds Coutts-Moriarty Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Woodstock Inc ↗
- Who funds The Lake George Association Inc ↗
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: The Vermont Community Foundation · High Meadows Fund Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · The Waterwheel Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Larsen Fund · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Patagoniaorg · Harris & Frances Block 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 Watersheds United Vermont 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.
- Memphremagog Watershed Assoc Inc — 59% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Missisquoi River Basin Assn — 42% of income from government
- Northwoods Stewardship Center — 40% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc — 30% of income from government
- Friends of Northern Lake Champlain — 25% of income from government
- The Vermont River Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Friends of the Mad River — 12% of income from government
- Addison County River Watch Collaborative Inc — 11% of income from government
- Friends of the Winooski River Inc — 7% of income from government
- White River Partnership Inc — 4% of income from government
- South Hero Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc — 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.
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