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STOWE STORY LABS INC

STOWE STORY LABS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $495,351 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($470,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$899k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$495k
Net assets
$271k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Stowe Story Labs Inc does

Mission

Providing educational programs related to film making.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Stowe story labs provides emerging screenwriters, filmmakers, and creative producers with the tools and skills to get meaningful work made and seen.

    $735,467 spentof which $50,000 as grants$747,998 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $735,467.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($124k) Expenses 100 ($124k) Net assets 100 ($11k)2018 Revenue 154 ($191k) Expenses 136 ($168k) Net assets 312 ($34k)2019 Revenue 214 ($266k) Expenses 184 ($229k) Net assets 653 ($71k)2020 Revenue 204 ($253k) Expenses 199 ($247k) Net assets 711 ($77k)2021 Revenue 378 ($470k) Expenses 302 ($374k) Net assets 1601 ($173k)2022 Revenue 723 ($898k) Expenses 607 ($753k) Net assets 2952 ($319k)2023 Revenue 812 ($1.0M) Expenses 866 ($1.1M) Net assets 2351 ($254k)2024 Revenue 898 ($1.1M) Expenses 812 ($1.0M) Net assets 3361 ($363k)2025 Revenue 723 ($899k) Expenses 799 ($992k) Net assets 2504 ($271k)
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Revenue (723)Expenses (799)Net assets (2504)Peer revenue range

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 $267k to $547k (+105%).

$15k
$36k
$83k
$207k
$267k
$547k
$451k
$461k
$391k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 23% · 2023 17% · 2024 10% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

16% of STOWE STORY LABS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$271
’17
$23k
’18
$37k
’19
$6k
’20
$96k
’21
$146k
’22
−$65k
’23
$109k
’24
−$93k
’25
4.4
months of
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

David Rocchio

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed9910101099
Joined·+2+3+2+1+0+0
No longer listed·222110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $82k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 STOWE STORY LABS 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

STOWE STORY LABS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 STOWE STORY LABS INC.

95%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 92% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.

Where its funders are

96% of STOWE STORY LABS INC'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 $19k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from Vermont funders.

VT
NY
MA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $477k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STOWE STORY LABS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding STOWE STORY LABS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $246k on record — $220k federal, $26k state.

Federal$220k
grants $220kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$220k
State$26k
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Top programs
  • Grants$24k
  • Sponsorships$3k

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 STOWE STORY LABS 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 19%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds STOWE STORY LABS INC?
STOWE STORY LABS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $495,351 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($470,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STOWE STORY LABS INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $495,351 in grants to STOWE STORY LABS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STOWE STORY LABS INC?
THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $470,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STOWE STORY LABS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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