Vermont · Nonprofit
THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC
THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,169 to it, the largest being VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC ($214,388). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $723k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $378k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What The Willowell Foundation Inc does
Programs
Wren's nest. This is a preschool aged program with a holistic, interdisciplinary, and sensory-basd approach to learning. Students learn by interacting with the natural world.
$254,250 spentPond brook. An independent school that provides a learning experience for 12 t0 15-year-old students. Embedded in the natural and human communities of vermont, the pond brook project inspires adolescent learners to cultivate their relationship to self, society, and the natural world.
$167,952 spentSummer camps/summer matters. Host a variety of week-long nature-inspired summer programs for preschool children through pre-teens. Programs focus on connecting to the natural environment, empowering students and having fun with the surrounding landscape.
$70,799 spentThe walden year. A program for students aged 16 - 19 to learn outdoors, focusing on a creative, compassionate, interdisciplinary education in arts, ecology, writing, civic engagement, and wellness.
$49,000 spent
The 4 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 2020 to 2021, from $507k to $1.2M (+133%).
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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $78k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 WILLOWELL FOUNDATION 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 WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 85% · 2019 76% · 2020 98% · 2021 69% · 2022 65% · 2023 81% — 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.
How long its funders stay
14% of THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
84% of THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k 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.
Against its field
THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $652k on record.
- Child Care Subsidy Employ/Trai$291k
- ARPA-SLFRF Rev Replacement$113k
- Other Grants$62k
- COVID School Aged Care$54k
- Child Care SAG Award$22k
- CC Stabilization$19k
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 THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION 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.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC?
- THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $378,169 to it, the largest being VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC ($214,388). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $378,169 in grants to THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION INC?
- VERMONT AFTERSCHOOL INC is the largest funder on record, with $214,388 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WILLOWELL FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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