Vermont · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC
FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,000 to it, the largest being PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC ($100,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Friends of the Union Meeting Hall Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the Corporation is to maintain and protect the Union Meeting Hall as an architectural and historical treasure and for use as a contemporary meeting space for the Town of Ferrisburgh. The Hall will be used as a gathering space for a diverse array of programs and events in order to foster community and as a space to be available for destination event rental opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Events incluse community gatherings Taste of Summer Ferrisburgh Day & Movie Nights
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $128k to $46k (−64%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $41k.
From the IRS filings of FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL 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
FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 64% — 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
84% of FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of the Interior$250k
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 FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL 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.
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 FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,000 to it, the largest being PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC ($100,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $152,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL INC?
- PRESERVATION TRUST OF VERMONT INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE UNION MEETING HALL 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 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