Vermont · Nonprofit
THE CIVIC STANDARD INC
THE CIVIC STANDARD INC (Vermont) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,942 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($117,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $245k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $272k
What The Civic Standard Inc does
Mission
The civic standard is a non-profit organization dedicated to building community and collaborative good times centered in the town of hardwick, vermont.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Civic theater project, theater in the broadest sense of the word - a performance. The common thread is that they involve, entertain, reflect, and contribute to the community in which we live. Civic productions are made from the town, they are set in the region where they are performed, and are written by and for people who live there. An original live game show, a youth theater camp, and a large scale production of "a christmas caroll." over 2, 000 served across two performance weekends and a week of camp.
$32,347 spent$20,823 earned by the program19% of program spendingSmall support fund, providing support for local events and individuals, including community meals and ongoing flood relief and mitigation. Around 50 people served at weekly community meals and approximated 50 more servedover the course of the year through direct support.
$22,058 spent13% of program spendingOther programs include youth organizing, volunteer-run projects, open hours, local gatherings and events and guest music performances.
$118,783 spent$18,131 earned by the program69% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $173,188.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $7k to $251k (+3256%).
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: 2023 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of THE CIVIC STANDARD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 THE CIVIC STANDARD 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
THE CIVIC STANDARD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 THE CIVIC STANDARD INC.
“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
78% of THE CIVIC STANDARD 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 $53k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Vermont funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $189k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE CIVIC STANDARD INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE CIVIC STANDARD 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE CIVIC STANDARD 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CIVIC STANDARD INC?
- THE CIVIC STANDARD INC (Vermont) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $241,942 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($117,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CIVIC STANDARD INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $241,942 in grants to THE CIVIC STANDARD INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CIVIC STANDARD INC?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $117,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CIVIC STANDARD 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 11 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