Vermont · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,740,997 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($2,149,256). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Special Olympics Vermont Inc does
Mission
The mission of sovt is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physcial fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendships with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Special olympics vermont(sovt) is part of a global movement using the power of sport to break down barriers and foster true inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities. Our mission is to ensure every athlete can develop physical fitness, confidence, and leadership skills and that vermont communities grow stronger and more welcoming as a result. In the past year,athletes trained and competed in olympic-style sports, supported by numerous coaches, unified partners, and event volunteers. Sovt hosted statewide winter, summer and fall games, a statewide swim competition and regional tournaments. Sovt also hosted free health screenings in four disciplines: special smiles(dentistry), healthy hearing (audiology), funfitness(physical therapy), and health promotion(nutrition and prevention). Increased partnerships with unified champion schools, which include unified sports, inclusive youth leadership, whole school engagement, helped create inclusive school cultures. The impact reaches far beyond competition. Athletes gain independence and friendships; families find community and support; and schools and towns across vermont become places where people of all abilities are valued and…
$772,770 spentof which $36,704 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $772,770.
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.
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 $1.9M to $2.4M (+22%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 17% · 2021 26% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Jay Nunn
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $259k → $376k.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 84% · 2019 72% · 2020 78% · 2021 84% · 2022 80% · 2023 81% — 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
30% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $231 on record.
- Other Purchased Services$231
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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,740,997 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($2,149,256). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,740,997 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,149,256 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing