Vermont · Nonprofit
CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC)
CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC) (Vermont) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,217,974 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,990,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Caribbean Agroecology Institute Inc (Fka Vermont Caribbean Institute Inc) does
Mission
Catalyze knowledge exchange, build capacity,and support transitions to resilient agroecological systems that provide for sustainable livelihoods rooted in justice and equality in the caribbean
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our projects focus on building climate and socioecological resilience through sustainable development, agroecology and food sovereignty in the caribbean and the region. We do this by raising awareness about agroecology advances and challenges in the region, facilitating partnerships, building capacity amongst stakeholders through research, exchanges, courses, conferences and workshops, amplifying voices internationally, and channeling resources and opportunities to our partners in the region. Continued on schedule o:in 2024 this included: 1) organizing an international seminar on local agroecology policies with representation from 18 countries, 2) coordinate a participatory action research project looking at governance for the territorialization of agroecology, 3) organized several agroecology trainings 4) organizing material donations to farming families, 5) supported environmental film festival titled isla verde, including a school gardens network, 6) conducting a caribbean regional integration mapping project and 7) provided subgrants to organizations engaging on sustainability issues as fiscal sponsor of the focus partnerships initiative.
$1,165,132 spentof which $498,966 as grants$105,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,165,132.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $565k to $1.1M (+91%).
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.
93% of CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC)’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $100k → $854k.
6 of 13 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.
From the IRS filings of CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC)’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
CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 74% · 2022 39% · 2023 87% — 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
75% of CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC)'s funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 31% 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
CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC) draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $923k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is 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.
Against its field
CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC) runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC)
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC)?
- CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC) (Vermont) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,217,974 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,990,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC) have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,217,974 in grants to CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC), 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC)?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,990,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARIBBEAN AGROECOLOGY INSTITUTE INC (FKA VERMONT CARIBBEAN INSTITUTE INC) 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing