Vermont · Nonprofit
Vermont Brewers Association Inc
Vermont Brewers Association Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,500 to it, the largest being BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC ($35,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $548k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $201k
What Vermont Brewers Association Inc does
Mission
The Vermont Brewers Association was founded in 1995 to promote and strengthen the culture of craft brewing in Vermont through marketing, education, and advocacy for Vermont made beer.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The vt craft brewing industry has an estimated economic impact of 460 million and supports 2,764 jobs. Current membership size is 57, with 15.4 breweries per 100,000 21+ residents (ranks 1 in the nation) producing 353,032 barrels of craft beer annually. We have 5 active committees focused on executing our strategic plan in the areas of advocacy, marketing, education, sustainability, and diversity equity and inclusion. The vermont brewers festival in burlington has been running for 32 years and is one of the premier beer festivals in the world attracting over 6,000 people and is the major fundraiser for the vba.
Our technical and education committee's goal is to provide education and training to member brewers with the goal of improving and maintaining the highest quality standard of beer brewed in vermont. We have 1 technical and educational day a year planned by the committee and host the annual vermont craft brewers conference in november which is a 2 day educational event focusing on resilience, technical brewing, and business development.
We continue to broaden our online store capabilities. The store's mobile- friendly functionality enables vba staff to take merchandise to breweries and festivals statewide, supporting in-person and online sales. This new platform helped increase merchandise revenue to 21,955 and allowed continued support of our vermont brewery challenge passport program (both digital and paper), through which we provide free branded merchandise as incentives for participants.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2021 to 2022, from $256k to $195k (−24%).
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 5% · 2020 34% · 2021 80% · 2022 8% · 2023 3% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
From the IRS filings of Vermont Brewers Association 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.
Where its funders are
Vermont Brewers Association Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Vermont Brewers Association Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $61k on record.
- Grants$26k
- Other Grants$20k
- Sponsorships$14k
- Advertising - Other$2k
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 Brewers Association 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.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Vermont Brewers Association 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 Brewers Association Inc?
- Vermont Brewers Association Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35,500 to it, the largest being BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC ($35,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Vermont Brewers Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35,500 in grants to Vermont Brewers Association Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Vermont Brewers Association Inc?
- BREWERS ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $35,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Vermont Brewers Association 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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