Vermont · Nonprofit
MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE
MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $75k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $131k
What Middle Grades Collaborative does
Mission
We are a collaboration of colleges and universities specializing in professional development for middle school educators. Designed for aspiring and practicing teachers of 10-15 year olds, our organization offers conferences, journals, online modules, and other resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Middle Grades Collaborative is part of a unique collaboration of colleges providing ongoing professional development for aspiring and practicing teachers of 10-15 year olds. Since 1991, the Middle Grades Collaborative has offered the Institute, aimed at providing this support and, in addition, helping educators earn their Middle Grades Teaching Endorsement. Although Middle Grades Collaborative is based in Vermont, both Vermonters and teachers well beyond our state's borders have found the institute to be a meaningful and important professional development experience. Middle Grades Collaborative directly serves 250 educators through professional development and it also sponsors an international online academic journal, The Middle Grades Review, which publishes three issues each year. In 2025 there were 18,472 downloads of articles from The Middle Grades Review.
$65,066 spent$75,075 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $65,066.
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 2022 to 2023, from $190k to $153k (−20%).
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.
0% of MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE?
- MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE?
- RICHARD E AND DEBORAH L TARRANT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDDLE GRADES COLLABORATIVE 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 1 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