Vermont · Nonprofit
STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE
STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($125,000). 1 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
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Stowe Swimmers Foundation Ltd D/B/A the Swimming Hole does
Programs
The swimming pool is available to the surrounding communityfor 105 hours a week throughout the year. It provides swim lessons for over ten levels of swimmers with each class
$1,389,561 spentGenerally meeting once a week for six weeks. Stowe swimmers foundation also has a swim team consisting of swimmers ages 6 to 18. The foundation offers both personal training and
$0 spentOver 20 group fitness classes each week.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.9M to $4.7M (−5%).
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.
Chief executive
Charlotte J Brynn
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $135k → $2k.
2 of 3 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 SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE’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 SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 93% · 2022 100% — 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
96% of STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE's revenue grew 38% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $149k on record.
- Grants$149k
- Other Purchased Services$154
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 SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE?
- STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($125,000). 1 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 SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $141,000 in grants to STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STOWE SWIMMERS FOUNDATION LTD D/B/A THE SWIMMING HOLE 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.
Play a game about who funds Stowe Swimmers Foundation Ltd D/B/A the Swimming Hole →
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 3 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