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GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT

GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT (Vermont) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,541 to it, the largest being Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation ($44,067). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$144k
Revenue FY2025
14
Funders on record
$125k
Grants received
$91k
Net assets
7/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%

Against its field

GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($90k) Expenses 100 ($101k) Net assets 100 ($101k)2018 Revenue 109 ($99k) Expenses 103 ($104k) Net assets 95 ($96k)2019 Revenue 101 ($91k) Expenses 102 ($102k) Net assets 84 ($84k)2020 Revenue 115 ($104k) Expenses 106 ($107k) Net assets 81 ($82k)2021 Revenue 128 ($116k) Expenses 112 ($112k) Net assets 85 ($85k)2022 Revenue 141 ($128k) Expenses 110 ($111k) Net assets 101 ($102k)2023 Revenue 119 ($108k) Expenses 121 ($122k) Net assets 87 ($88k)2024 Revenue 131 ($119k) Expenses 117 ($118k) Net assets 88 ($88k)2025 Revenue 159 ($144k) Expenses 140 ($141k) Net assets 91 ($91k)
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Revenue (159)Expenses (140)Net assets (91)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,813 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

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$365
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $7k → $27k.

3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)20% 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 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT’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

GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

71% 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 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT.

35%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 84% · 2022 31% · 2023 20%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

50% of GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

74% of GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT's grant income comes from Vermont funders.

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

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Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $97k on record.

State$97k
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Top programs
  • Child Care Quality Enhancement$74k
  • Children's Integrated Services$10k
  • Comm Based Family Resources$6k
  • Infant/Toddler Quality Improve$5k
  • CIS Grants and Contracts$2k

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 GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Vermont

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Public support

90%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT?
GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT (Vermont) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,541 to it, the largest being Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation ($44,067). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $124,541 in grants to GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT?
Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $44,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GOOD BEGINNINGS OF CENTRAL VERMONT 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 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing