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Vermont · Nonprofit
LET'S GROW KIDS INC (Vermont) is funded by 50 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $26,303,735 in grants to it, the largest being Stiller Family Foundation ($12,004,272). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LET'S GROW KIDS INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,688 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,688 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 46%. Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of LET'S GROW KIDS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$111k from 3 funders in 2025, up from $641k and 1 in 2017.
9 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 LET'S GROW KIDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. Association, not causation.
LET'S GROW KIDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 67% · 2020 58% · 2021 48% · 2022 30% · 2023 56% · 2024 37% · 2025 77% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
39% of LET'S GROW KIDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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.
LET'S GROW KIDS INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 50 funders put you typical 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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
70% of spending goes to programs.
Part of a family of 5 related entities
Every figure is 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 50funders 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. view filing