Vermont · Nonprofit
HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC
HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,549,703 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,510,450). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $4.5M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Hunger Free Vermont Inc does
Mission
To end the injustice of hunger for everyone and prioritize the people most affected by hunger to make a permanent systemic change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mobilizing to end hunger: raising funds to support essential food security work by vermont abenaki bands and the vermont releaf collective: in 2020, hunger free vermont began building relationships with the leaders of the four state- recognized abenaki bands in vermont, with the goal of applying the principles of community-centric fundraising in service of assisting under-resourced nonprofits led by and serving groups most affected by hunger and its root causes in vermont to carry out their own food security priorities, and to partner with hunger free vermont in outreach and advocacy projects when we share mutual interests and priorities. In 2024 we continued our partnership with the vermont releaf collective (now called liberation ecosystem) whose mission is to cultivate connection, share resources, and amplify the voices of people of color in vermont within the focus areas of land, environment, agriculture, and foodways. Early in 2024, hunger free vermont wrote a new grant for liberation ecosystem that yielded 75k of unrestricted support. Between 2020 and 2024, hunger free vermont's development team has devoted over 400 hours of working time assisting with new grant…
$475,802 spent$787 earned by the program36% of program spendingFood security initiatives: hunger free vermont improves access to and participation in 3squaresvt (known nationally as snap) which is one of the most reliable, consistent, and dignified means to prevent hunger in the us. Snap provides funds eligible low-income households can use to buy food to prepare at home. Hunger free vermont works with state and community partners in every vermont county to increase awareness of the program, remove barriers to participation, and train hundreds of service providers who do application assistance to ensure all those who are eligible are able to participate. Since hunger free vermont began working on improving access, participation in 3squaresvt has increased by more than 80%. Our state is now nationally recognized for connecting those at the lowest income levels to snap. Our food security initiatives team also works to expand 3squaresvt use at farmers markets, raises public awareness about the value of 3squaresvt, and engages public support for protecting this biggest food safety net from harmful federal administrative changes and cuts. 2024 was a challenging year for 3squaresvt participants, continuing to navigate the repercussions of the end…
$415,764 spent31% of program spendingEnding childhood hunger: because good nutrition is especially crucial while a young child's brain is developing, hunger free vermont is helping child care providers build nutrition into the core of their programs. We conduct free training for directors and workers representing childcare centers and homes from around the state on how to incorporate better nutrition and more physical activity into their programs. We train early childhood educators about how to identify food insecurities in children and how to talk to families about food access resources by connecting folks to snap and wic. Hunger free vermont also serves as the voice for nutritious meals in childcare in coalitions advocating for improving and expanding early childhood education and childcare capacity in vermont. Since the start of the covid-19 pandemic, we have also helped connect childcare providers to schools as a new source of healthy meals. In 2024 hunger free vermont served as the backbone organization to co-create a strategic plan for what it would take to permanently end childhood hunger in vermont. When complete, the full creating a food secure future for vermont children will include the mix of…
$235,317 spent18% of program spendingSchool age initiatives: hunger and food insecurity affect many vermont families whose household income makes them ineligible for free school meals, and, because of the stigma they face, many students will not use their school meal program even when they are eligible. In addition, when all students participate, school meal programs are more financially sustainable, can afford to purchase more local food, and can serve higher quality meals. Hunger free vermont has therefore been committed to making school meals a universal and fundamental part of public education at all vermont schools for many years, both by advocating for changes in federal law and by leading a coalition that introduced the first state-level bill for universal school meals in january 2020. Through a robust, community driven effort, we succeeded in having the state legislature pass a one-year state-funded universal school meals program in june of 2022, and in june of 2023 that program was enacted permanently, making vermont the 6th state in the country to provide universal school breakfast and lunch as an essential component of an equitable education for every public school student in vermont, as well as for…
$194,175 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,321,058.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $1.8M (+39%).
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 16% · 2018 23% · 2019 20% · 2020 19% · 2021 32% · 2022 35% · 2023 18% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $235k → $917k.
11 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 HUNGER FREE VERMONT 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
HUNGER FREE VERMONT 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
69% 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 HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 32% · 2019 33% · 2020 31% · 2021 39% · 2022 22% · 2023 39% — 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
50% of HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
52% of HUNGER FREE VERMONT 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 $2.2M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record.
- FS Outreach Prog$2.0M
- CECH - Child Nutrition$621k
- Chronic Disease Programs$345k
- Nutrition & Physical Activity$275k
- Nutrition Education$187k
- Other Grants$122k
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 HUNGER FREE VERMONT 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC?
- HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,549,703 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,510,450). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $4,549,703 in grants to HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HUNGER FREE VERMONT INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,510,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HUNGER FREE VERMONT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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