Vermont · Nonprofit
HowardCenter Inc
HowardCenter Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,462,023 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC ($1,461,967). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $30M
What HowardCenter Inc does
Mission
Howard Center, Inc. helps people and communities thrive by providing supports and services to address mental health, substance use and developmental needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mental Health Substance Use and Developmental Services provide a variety of short-term to long-term support services, treatment and care management to individuals who are experiencing the effects of mental illness, substance use disorders, or developmental disabilities. Emotional, psychological, or behavioral distress may be present regardless of diagnosis, situational stress, or life circumstances. Services include care management, supportive counseling, outpatient treatment, psychiatric care, residential care, harm reduction, medication management, and employment support. Services are provided with the goal of successfully integrating individuals into the community, honoring self-determination, and meeting the care needs clients identify.
$81,675,239 spent$78,188,763 earned by the program63% of program spendingChild, Youth and Family Services provide prevention, screening, assessment, treatment, and education services and support to children and youth and their families with substance use, developmental disabilities, and mental health needs. Programs include counseling, school-based services, in-home work, therapeutic interventions, skills development, crisis intervention, hospital diversion, special education, and residential programs. These services provide individuals with tools and strategies to succeed at school, home and in the community and to assist families to improve functioning.
$33,138,516 spent$31,723,930 earned by the program26% of program spendingIntegrated Services provide support to people in distress or acute crisis to determine level of care needs and additional service needs. Modalities include crisis response, outreach, telehealth and short-term stabilization for youth and adults. These programs provide screening, assessment, support, and care management to provide services in the least restrictive manner, avoid hospitalization and emergency department visits. These interventions also set up appropriate care to avoid any future crisis.
$13,859,918 spent$13,276,418 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $128,673,673.
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 2019 to 2020, from $35M to $45M (+27%).
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 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 9% · 2020 13% · 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 11% · 2024 9% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of HowardCenter Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Sandra McGuire
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Kelly Deforge
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $254k → $751k.
13 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Vermont Foundation for Children & Families). These are real filings, and they are not money HowardCenter Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of HowardCenter Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
HowardCenter Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
88% 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 HowardCenter Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 44% · 2019 42% · 2020 35% · 2021 35% · 2022 42% · 2023 40% — growing more concentrated.
“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
31% of HowardCenter Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
82% of HowardCenter 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. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
HowardCenter Inc's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 178 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding HowardCenter Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $192.2M on record — $10.8M federal, $181.4M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.7M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$135k
- Other Grants$29.0M
- Crisis/Emergency$23.7M
- Sub Care-In St Intensive$17.7M
- Outpatient$16.0M
- Substance Abuse Treatment$16.0M
- Adult MH Comm Rehab & Trmnt$7.6M
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 HowardCenter 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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Help is Here LLC · disregarded
- Mission 1888 LLC · disregarded
- Arroway Inc · exempt
- Pennington Group Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HowardCenter Inc?
- HowardCenter Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,462,023 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC ($1,461,967). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HowardCenter Inc have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $4,462,023 in grants to HowardCenter Inc, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HowardCenter Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST VERMONT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,461,967 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HowardCenter 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 58 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