How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Vermont?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Vermont, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Vermont Community Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Vermont from out of state.

Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Vermont?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Vermont, $38M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Vermont?

$251M reached 366 arts and culture organizations in Vermont, from 1,036 funders. 24% came from funders also based in Vermont.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Vermont · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in Vermont

Arts and culture funding in Vermont is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Northern Stage Company leads, and the money reaches 366 groups. Most of it comes from outside Vermont: only 24% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$251M

granted

366

organizations

24%

from in-state

The short version

1,036 funders gave $251M to 366 arts and culture organizations in Vermont across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
24% of that came from funders also based in Vermont; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in Vermont is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $38M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Northern Stage Company, at $21M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in Vermont

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Vermont, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$38M 2The Vermont Community Foundation$28M 3Corporation for Public Broadcasting$18M 4The Helen Gurley Brown Foundation$15M 5Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$12M 6Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$11M 7Vermont Council on the Arts Inc$11M 8National Philanthropic Trust$6M 9River Branch Foundation$6M 10Chittenden Cty Govt Access Channel Trust$3M

Arts and culture organizations in Vermont that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

356 other arts and culture organizations$140M

Northern Stage Company$21M Vermont Studio Center Inc$16M Friends of Arrow Street Arts Inc$12M

How to find arts and culture funders in Vermont

1
Start with the funders already active in Vermont
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Vermont are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Vermont Community Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
76% of arts and culture money in Vermont comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Vermont.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Vermont?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Vermont, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Vermont Community Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Vermont from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Vermont?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Vermont, $38M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Vermont?: $251M reached 366 arts and culture organizations in Vermont, from 1,036 funders. 24% came from funders also based in Vermont.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.