Vermont · Nonprofit
THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC
THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,897,684 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,820,434). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $11M
What The Windham Foundation Inc does
Program
Preservation, restoration and management of historically and culturally significant property in grafton and other vermont locations, including the grafton village cheese company, the grafton inn.
$1,256,272 spent
The program 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $34M to $22M (−36%).
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
Daniel Lerner
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Ventriss
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $364k → $376k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 WINDHAM 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 WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION 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 $77k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $69k on record.
- Grants$58k
- Other Grants$10k
- Agency Fund Payments$424
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 WINDHAM 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 WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC?
- THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,897,684 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,820,434). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,897,684 in grants to THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,820,434 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WINDHAM 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.
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