Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC
VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC (Vermont) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,600 to it, the largest being VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC ($37,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $193k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $458k
What Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility Inc does
Mission
To leverage the power of business for positive social and environmental impact.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Vbsr membership services provides general membership service and support relating to socially responsible business practices, including resources via a website, newsletters, and networking and educational programs. Vbsr also serves members as an information clearinghouse on socially responsible business practices and resources.
Our public policy program includes the development of new public policy initiatives and our statehouse advocacy campaigns. Vbsr identifies public policy issues of importance to our business members through public policy surveys and forums and adopts organizational positions on a variety of public policy issues. Vbsr educates businesses, the public, and legislators on these issues via workshops, forums, and newsletters, and provides a policy voice on behalf of members.
Other programs are programs and services not offered on a regular basis, such as one-time workshops or educational offerings we present or co- present with other organizations. This category can also include assessing the feasibility of potential new programs.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 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 2023 to 2024, from $553k to $469k (−15%).
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: 2020 19% · 2021 12%. 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 7 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
Mara Rivera
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 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 BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
68% 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 BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
93% of VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 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. 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.
Organizations like VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 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
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Vbsr Research & Education Foundatio · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 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 BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC?
- VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC (Vermont) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,600 to it, the largest being VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC ($37,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $69,600 in grants to VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC?
- VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 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 5 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