Vermont · Nonprofit
RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,724,437 to it, the largest being NELLA M GRIMM FOX FOUNDATION ($1,687,271). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Rutland Hospital Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Vermont Humanities Councilshared fundersportfolio match
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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: 2019 67% · 2020 65% · 2021 42% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $186k → $195k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC’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
RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rutland Hospital Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchVT · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Humanities Councilshared fundersportfolio matchVT · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Association for Rural and Small Librariesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finger Lakes Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Owwl Library Systemportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Osgood-Hilles Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Windham Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wisdom Connection Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Winthrop H Smith Jr Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McInroy-Sheffer People Trust Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Rutland County Incshared funderslocalVT · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · funds 20 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: 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.
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 RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC?
- RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,724,437 to it, the largest being NELLA M GRIMM FOX FOUNDATION ($1,687,271). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,724,437 in grants to RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC?
- NELLA M GRIMM FOX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,687,271 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUTLAND FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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