Vermont · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617
SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 (Vermont) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,951,993 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,619,540). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- Vermont Humanities Councilshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Elevate Youth Services Incshared funders
- John M Bissell Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 7% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $14k → $621k.
8 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 81% · 2019 91% · 2020 64% · 2021 40% · 2022 60% · 2023 66% — diversifying over time.
“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
70% of SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
74% of SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 77% 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. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 52 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Vermont Humanities Councilshared funderslocalportfolio matchVT · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate Youth Services Incshared fundersVT · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- John M Bissell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hs & Cg Patterson Jr Char Fd Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Council of Nonprofits Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wolf Kahn Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lamson Howell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Periwinkle Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James E Robison Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fanny Allen Corporationshared fundersMA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53k on record.
- Miscellaneous Grants$34k
- Grants$17k
- ChildCare COVID RestartStipend$2k
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 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617: 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 SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617?
- SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 (Vermont) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,951,993 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,619,540). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $3,951,993 in grants to SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,619,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 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 52funders 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