Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC
VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,432,491 to it, the largest being VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORPORATION ($641,758). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Vermont Achievement Center Inc does
Mission
Through flexible, diverse and responsive programs, vermont achievement center, inc. (vac) provides a foundation of life skills to prepare individuals to reach their full potential as contributing members of society. All people are capable of change. Individuals flourish because they are nurtured, valued and treated with respect. Education is empowering. The family is the primary influence in a persons life. Children belong in a family. Families are enhanced by support of the community. Children and family services are flexible and responsive to changing needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vermont achievement center's early education and care program offers a variety of enriching quality care programs for infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. Vac's programs work to bring children together in an enriching developmentally appropriate learning environment to help promote independence, self-esteem, and growth in areas of motor skills, language and literacy, play skills, and social competency. We also assist children six-weeks to twelve-years of age by providing nutritious meals and snacks throughout the day. In addition to our educational classrooms, we also provide playground, gymnasium and swimming services. Vac's sheldon academy offers a special education program and therapeutic summer program for kids grades k-8 that meet the individual needs of students with special needs. Our experienced staff work to make sure children receive the therapy and educational supervision they need. Another resource we provide is the mitchell therapy pool at vac which is an indoor, heated and specially equipped therapy pool. It is the only therapy pool in central vermont. With warm water and specialized ramps, the pool provides therapeutic swimming for children and adults of…
$2,884,301 spent$2,987,375 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,884,301.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.1M to $3.9M (+26%).
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: 2018 42% · 2019 42% · 2020 25% · 2021 33% · 2022 14% · 2023 14% · 2024 13% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Karen Pezzetti
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $109k → $80k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Vac Childrens Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER 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
VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 52% · 2019 37% · 2020 36% · 2021 52% · 2022 49% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
73% of VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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
66% of VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER 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. $47k 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
VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.8M on record.
- Child Care Subsidy Employ/Trai$8.3M
- Other Grants$6.6M
- Child Care Eligibility$2.0M
- Child Care Subsidy Protect SVC$833k
- Child Care Referral$586k
- Grants$444k
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 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Vac Children's Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER 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 VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC?
- VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC (Vermont) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,432,491 to it, the largest being VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORPORATION ($641,758). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,432,491 in grants to VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC?
- VERMONT ENERGY INVESTMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $641,758 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER 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 14 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