Vermont · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC
FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,166,303 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($469,450). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $671k
What Foundation for a Resilient Montpelier Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to enhance our communitys ability to make valuable capital investments to improve the quality of life for local residents and visitors. We fund "brick and mortar" projects that have a lasting impact in montpelier and might not otherwise be funded with limited city resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization supports projects that provide long-term public benefits in montpelier. Funds can be used for the design, construction, or acquisition of educational, recreational, transportation, public safety, utility, conservation and preservation, and cultural improvements having a useful life of at least 20 years. We place a priority on projects where our funds can make a difference in further completing or finishing a project.
$12,645 spentof which $12,645 as grants12% of program spendingCommission for recovery and resilience - in july 2023, montpelier, vermont and neighboring towns experienced a devastating flooding event that affected many businesses. The organization played a major role in raising money to support the clean-up and resconstruction of downtown montpelier following the flooding. In partnership with the city of montpelier and montpelier alive, the organization created the commission for recovery and resilence. The commission identifies and coordinates recovery and resilience projects and strategies for montpelier.
$90,000 spentof which $90,000 as grants88% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $102,645.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $276k to $637k (+131%).
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.
91% of FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Sarah Jarvis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $103k → $594k.
9 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER 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
FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 43% · 2023 68% — 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
25% of FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 30% 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
85% of FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER 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 $173k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $994k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,166,303 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($469,450). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,166,303 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $469,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR A RESILIENT MONTPELIER 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 20 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