Vermont · Nonprofit
BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL
BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL (Vermont) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,176,969 to it, the largest being AD HENDERSON FOUNDATION INC ($390,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Vermont Childrens Trust Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Kelsey Trustshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Lionheart Charitable Trustlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 93% · 2018 85% · 2019 86% · 2020 78% · 2021 66% · 2022 60% · 2023 73% · 2024 82% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $34k → $170k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $18k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council). These are real filings, and they are not money BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL raised.
From the IRS filings of BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 64% · 2021 38% · 2022 43% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
57% of BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $631k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Vermont Childrens Trust Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchVT · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Kelsey Trustshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Lionheart Charitable Trustlocalportfolio matchVT · funds 40 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- J Warren and Lois McClure Foundationlocalportfolio matchVT · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fanny Allen Corporationshared funderslocalMA · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 28 organizations near you
- Vermont State Employees Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for the Study of Social Policyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louise Judith and Edgar May Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont Caring for Children Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Northwest Vermont Incshared funderslocalVT · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 63 organizations near you
- Elevate Youth Services Incshared fundersVT · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL?
- BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL (Vermont) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,176,969 to it, the largest being AD HENDERSON FOUNDATION INC ($390,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,176,969 in grants to BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL?
- AD HENDERSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $390,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUILDING BRIGHT FUTURES STATE ADVISORY COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 16funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing