Vermont · Nonprofit
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC (Vermont) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,852,656 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc does
Mission
Cvoeo addresses fundamental issues of economic, social, racial, and environmental justice and collaborates with people to achieve economic independence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cvoeo provided a wide variety of vital services to over 23,000 people and well over 12,000 families during the past year. Additionally, thousands of volunteer hours were donated to cvoeo programs and agency programs engaged in over five hundred partnerships with outside entities (businesses, non-profits, faith-based organizations, school districts, post-secondary institutions, etc.). Three community action offices in middlebury, burlington and st. Albans provided crisis intervention in several areas including crisis fuel, warmth support, housing financial assistance, housing services coordination, food assistance, and tax assistance. Please see our annual report for last year's statistics.
$6,651,217 spentof which $2,626,628 as grants20% of program spendingThere were 144 children served in our head start program and 160 children in our early head start program. There were 2,026 home visits. Eighty-six percent (86%) of our 4-year-old preschoolers were meeting or exceeding expectations tied to kindergarten readiness in the domains of language and cognitive development.
$9,341,678 spentof which $1,364,984 as grants$300 earned by the program27% of program spendingOver this past year cvoeo has continued to expand its food programs throughout the champlain valley through our feeding champlain valley program which is the largest food shelf and charitable food provider in the state. We secured funding to renovate burlington food shelf and community resource center, adding expanded space on the first floor and a second floor. Those renovations will be completed in early february 2026. The health roots collaborative is one of feeding champlain valley's programs providing cvoeo with the opportunity to connect with over one hundred local farmers to source food into our charitable food system. We also provide education on sustainable farming through workshops at schools and community centers. Feeding champlain valley continues with its food as medicine program, mobile outreach, solidifying its three food hubs it established in 2023 and providing consumer choice through its online food ordering application and its interpretation and translation service.
$7,166,253 spentof which $4,505,186 as grants21% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$10,863,147 spentof which $3,551,090 as grants$453,065 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $34,022,295.
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 $13M to $17M (+29%).
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 65% · 2018 83% · 2019 85% · 2020 82% · 2021 83% · 2022 84% · 2023 86% · 2024 75% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% 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
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.
Chief executive
Paul Dragon
Executive director
Board chair
Nakuma Palcczewski
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $379k → $1.8M.
19 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 funders by total. 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
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
86% 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 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 35% · 2019 20% · 2020 37% · 2021 31% · 2022 33% · 2023 22% — 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
28% of CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
73% of CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.1M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC has grown faster than half of the 366 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 366 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$60.7M
- Department of Justice$5.4M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.8M
- Department of the Treasury$847k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: 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 CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC?
- CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC (Vermont) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,852,656 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $14,852,656 in grants to CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 86 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing