Vermont · Nonprofit
VALLEY CARES INC
VALLEY CARES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,244 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
VALLEY CARES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Periwinkle Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- United Way of Rutland County Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fundshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 11% · 2022 11% · 2023 6% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of VALLEY CARES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $75k → $579.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 VALLEY CARES 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
VALLEY CARES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 VALLEY CARES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 78% · 2023 86% — 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
89% of VALLEY CARES 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 $15k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Periwinkle Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchVT · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Rutland County Incshared fundersportfolio matchVT · backs 11 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lucy D Nisbet Charitable Fundshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rutland Hospital Incshared fundersportfolio matchVT · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Public Health Association Inclocalportfolio matchVT · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Foodbanklocalportfolio matchVT · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas Thompson Trustshared funderslocalMA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Vermont Low Income Trust for Electricity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Bank Na Foundation of New England Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wisdom Connection Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont State Employees Credit Unionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding VALLEY CARES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $755k on record.
- Loans$475k
- Grants$234k
- Other Grants$45k
- Other Purchased Services$952
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 VALLEY CARES INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- West River Valley Housing Limited Partnership · partnership
- West River Valley Assisted Limited Partnership · partnership
- West River Valley Supportive Limited Partnership · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VALLEY CARES 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds VALLEY CARES INC?
- VALLEY CARES INC (Vermont) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,244 to it, the largest being Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VALLEY CARES INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $140,244 in grants to VALLEY CARES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VALLEY CARES INC?
- Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VALLEY CARES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing