Vermont · Nonprofit
CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY
CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,088 to it, the largest being NATIONAL LIFE GROUP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($33,070). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $478k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Central Vermont Youth Hockey Association Dba Black Bears Hockey does
Mission
CVYH's mission is to promote, supervise and assist in the development of youth skating and hockey programs, by providing the best possible experience for all participants, including their spectators.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Organization and training in the sport of ice hockey and general skating for the youth and general public of the central vermont area.
$415,048 spentof which $27,784 as grants$392,567 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $415,048.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $39k to $180k (+363%).
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.
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
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
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $124 → $41k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY’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
CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
45% 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 CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $413 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY?
- CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,088 to it, the largest being NATIONAL LIFE GROUP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($33,070). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $60,088 in grants to CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY?
- NATIONAL LIFE GROUP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,070 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL VERMONT YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION DBA BLACK BEARS HOCKEY 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.
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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 4 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