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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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Environment$5.3MRecreation & Sports$103kFood & Nutrition$52k
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $448k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $593k
$45,066
Median grant
5
States reached
$511k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY: $39k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 20 repeat orgs$563k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
7

Total granted

$4.9M
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+38%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $401k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsEmploymentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $728k · revenue +100% · 46% of their budget
  • MW
    MEMPHREMAGOG WATERSHED ASSOC INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $687k · revenue +311% · 60% of their budget
  • CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $616k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CC
    CALEDONIA COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCES
    one grant, 2023 · $89k
  • TO
    TOWN OF WALLINGFORD
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • PV
    PASSUMPSIC VALLEY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $19k
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
Vermont Riverlands Llc

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…

Environment
2
Norwalk River Watershed Association Inc

To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed

Environment
3
Farmington River Watershed Association Inc

Protect and preserve the natural resources of the farmington river watershed area

Environment
4
Merrimack River Watershed Council Inc

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…

Environment
5
Higgins Lake Land Conservancy

Acquire and otherwise manage conservation of lands within the watershed of Higgins Lake

Environment
6
Piscataquog Land Conservancy

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…

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7
30 Mile River Watershed Association

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…

Environment
8
Wentworth Watershed Association

To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.

Environment
9
Winnisquam Watershed Network

Monitor Lake Winnisquam Water Quality, Education & Community Involvement Strategies, Develop and implement a watershed management plan, Coordinate Lake Host Program for Lake Winnisquam

Environment
10
Necanicum Watershed Council

Protection & preservation of the Necanicum watershed.

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11
Owasco Lake Watershed Management Council Inc

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…

Environment
12
Midcoast Conservancy

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 42 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INC: $727,705 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INCMEMPHREMAGOG WATERSHED ASSOC INC: $686,921 · EnvironmentMEMPHREMAGOG WATERSHED ASSOC INCCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $615,765 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INCWhite River Partnership Inc: $567,940 · EnvironmentWhite River Partnership IncLewis Creek Watershed Association: $370,497 · EnvironmentLewis Creek Watershed AssociationFRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN: $257,248 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAINMISSISQUOI RIVER BASIN ASSN: $238,368 · EnvironmentMISSISQUOI RIVER BASIN ASSNVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $167,219 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE MAD RIVER: $161,681 · Environment+7 more: $289,028 · Environment+7 moreTROUT UNLIMITED: $183,501 · OtherTROUT UNLIMITEDREDSTART INC: $182,181 · OtherREDSTART INCOTTAUQUECHEE NATURAL RESOURCES: $161,053 · OtherOTTAUQUECHEE NATURAL RE…CHITTENDEN COUNTY REGIONAL PLANNING: $109,665 · OtherCHITTENDEN COUNTY REGIO…CALEDONIA COUNTY NATURAL RESOURCES: $89,375 · OtherCALEDONIA COUNTY NATURA…LAMOILLE COUNTY CONSERVATION DIST: $66,849 · OtherLAMOILLE COUNTY CONSERV…WINDHAM COUNTY NRCD: $63,744 · OtherWINDHAM COUNTY NRCDTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $63,092 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYLAMOILLE COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION: $55,639 · Other+11 more: $170,999 · Other+11 moreFARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC: $102,762 · Recreation & SportsINTERVALE CENTER INC: $52,360 · EmploymentTHE VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $39,039 · Human ServicesNORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER: $37,810 · EducationCoutts-Moriarty Camp Inc: $16,937 · Youth DevelopmentThe Lake George Association Inc: $7,024 · Arts & Culture
Environment$4,082,372Other$1,146,098Recreation & Sports$102,762Employment$52,360Human Services$39,039Education$37,810Youth Development$16,937Arts & Culture$7,024

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE WINOOSKI RIVER INC: $727,705 over 5y, 46% of budgetMEMPHREMAGOG WATERSHED ASSOC INC: $686,921 over 5y, 60% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $615,765 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetWhite River Partnership Inc: $567,940 over 5y, 47% of budgetLewis Creek Watershed Association: $370,497 over 5y, 62% of budgetFRIENDS OF NORTHERN LAKE CHAMPLAIN: $257,248 over 5y, 37% of budgetMISSISQUOI RIVER BASIN ASSN: $238,368 over 5y, 20% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $167,219 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MAD RIVER: $161,681 over 5y, 19% of budgetVERMONT NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $106,170 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetFARM AND WILDERNESS FOUNDATION INC: $102,762 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAddison County River Watch Collaborative Inc: $75,133 over 4y, 42% of budgetLake Dunmore Fern Lake Association: $65,272 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $63,092 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC: $52,360 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE VERMONT RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $39,039 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNORTHWOODS STEWARDSHIP CENTER: $37,810 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCoutts-Moriarty Camp Inc: $16,937 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMITTEE INC: $15,900 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTH HERO LAND TRUST INC: $12,539 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSustainable Woodstock Inc: $11,714 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetThe Lake George Association Inc: $7,024 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENSBORO ASSOCIATION INC: $2,300 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The Vermont Community…High Meadows Fund IncLintilhac Foundation …Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Davis Conservation Fo…The Waterwheel Founda…The Windham Foundatio…Larsen FundNew Hampshire Charita…The Nature ConservancyPatagoniaorgHarris & Frances Bloc…
The Vermont Community FoundationVT49.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Watersheds United Vermont Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Watersheds United Vermont Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to Watersheds United Vermont Inc?

Find your warmest path to Watersheds United Vermont Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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