Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN
VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,894 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($69,363). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $572k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $162k
- Net assets
- $-112361
What Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility Research & Edu Fdn does
Mission
To provide research and education on issues of importance to the natural, human, and economic environments of vermont citizens.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Policy education: through workshops, forums, newsletters, and white papers, we held educational forums to educate business people, legislators, community leaders, and other decision-makers about policy issues related to business. These issues relate to the economy, environment, communities, workplaces, and other business issues.
$61,638 spent11% of program spendingEducational events: the annual conference is vbsr's largest event with over 450 attendees learning from speakers and workshops on socially responsible business practices. Our annual awards ceremony, which showcases individuals and companies with leadership achievements that model the sustainable business philosophy, included over 100 attendees. Throughout the year, we held 9 networking and people. Planet. Prosperity. Speaker series events in different parts of the state, highlighting different aspects of each host business' socially responsible practices. Over the course of 2024 vbsr offered educational programming focused on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion as well as programming specific to b corporations in vermont.
$178,530 spent$79,682 earned by the program32% of program spendingOther programs include the climatereadyvt program that supports vermont business with becoming more resilient to climate related business disruptions. The program is geared towards small, vermont businesses and focuses on business continuity planning and learning how to identify, measure, and prioritize climate related risks and risk mitigation. Other programs also include opportunities to collaborate and support community programs sponsored by community leaders.
$324,113 spent$236,253 earned by the program57% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $564,281.
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 2020 to 2021, from $323k to $129k (−60%).
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 16% · 2018 14% · 2019 12% · 2020 20% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
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
Julie Lineberger
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $30k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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: $113k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN raised.
From the IRS filings of VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN’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 RESEARCH & EDU FDN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 RESEARCH & EDU FDN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 85% · 2023 66% — 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
60% of VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN'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 $65k 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. $97k 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.
Against its field
VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN's revenue grew 60% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN
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
82% 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 1 related entity
- Vermont Businesses for Social Resp · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN?
- VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $161,894 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($69,363). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $161,894 in grants to VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $69,363 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT BUSINESSES FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESEARCH & EDU FDN 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 4 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