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FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC

FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,250 to it, the largest being THOMAS THOMPSON TRUST ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$101k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$105k
Net assets
$523k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Friends of Vernon Center Inc does

Mission

The mission of Friends of Vernon Center Inc. Is to envision, plan, and promote the establishment of a village center in vernon, vermont, for the benefit of the town's residents and visitors; and to preserve and care for vernon's historic governor hunt house. The friends of vernon center seeks to promote the governor hunt house and the attached community center and grounds as gathering places for activities that foster community spirit, honor our community heritage, and support creative ways to enhance and serve the well-being of the residents of vernon, now and for future generations.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Acquired and began to develop governor hunt house and conference center in vernon vermont.

    $95,489 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Summer open house with free music, water, house tours, snacks and lawn games. About 100 attended

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $95,489.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($490k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($474k)2021 Revenue 4 ($21k) Expenses 129 ($29k) Net assets 98 ($466k)2022 Revenue 14 ($69k) Expenses 404 ($91k) Net assets 94 ($444k)2023 Revenue 47 ($231k) Expenses 616 ($138k) Net assets 113 ($538k)2024 Revenue 40 ($196k) Expenses 953 ($214k) Net assets 110 ($520k)2025 Revenue 21 ($101k) Expenses 441 ($99k) Net assets 110 ($523k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (21)Expenses (441)Net assets (110)Peer revenue range

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 $451k to $538k (+19%).

$474k
$466k
$451k
$538k
$520k
$523k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 52% · 2023 99% · 2024 95% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$467k
’20
−$8k
’21
−$22k
’22
$93k
’23
−$18k
’24
$3k
’25
3.8
months of
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.

20202021202320242025
Listed13119129
Joined·+0·+3+3
No longer listed·2·06
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $25k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
2

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER 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 VERNON CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

52% 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 VERNON CENTER INC.

48%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 2 states in all.

VT
MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC's revenue fell 79% between 2020 and 2025.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−27% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $319k on record — $318k federal, $1k state.

Federal$318k
grants $318kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$318k
State$1k
24
25
Top programs
  • Instate Conf, Meetings, Etc$1k

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 VERNON CENTER INC

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In Vermont

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 0%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC?
FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $105,250 to it, the largest being THOMAS THOMPSON TRUST ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $105,250 in grants to FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER INC?
THOMAS THOMPSON TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF VERNON CENTER 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 2020–2025), 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