Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT CARES
VERMONT CARES (Vermont) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $431,317 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL AIDS DIRECTORSDBA NASTAD ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $431k
- Net assets
- $377k
What Vermont Cares does
Mission
To provide life-saving harm reduction services, education, and resources to vermonters affected by hiv, hepatitis c, and substance use by increasing access to care, reducing social stigmas, and building relationships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hiv services- Vermont Cares provides hiv care and support to vermonters living with hiv through medical case management, medical transportation, medication assistance, housing support, nutritional assistance, and other services that help to maintain overall wellbeing of those we serve. We also provide hiv prevention services which include access to free safer sex supplies, free hiv testing and community based events and education for area schools, organizations and individuals. Client assistance- Vermont Cares provides emergency financial assistance to people living with hiv and to individuals living with substance use disorder and at risk of hiv.
$750,487 spentof which $201,548 as grants$24,400 earned by the program44% of program spendingHarm reduction services- Vermont Cares provides an array of harm reduction services through both site-based and mobile service models which include safe syringe access, syringe disposal, overdose prevention, wound care prevention, low barrier access to substance use treatment, case management, and other basic life needs support. Through our statewide mobile program we are reaching vermonters in underserved rural parts of the state where public transportation is a barrier to access. We also provide education on harm reduction and overdose prevention to community-based organizations, medical providers, ems providers, schools and more.
$954,195 spent56% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,704,682.
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 2022 to 2023, from $232k to $899k (+288%).
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 68% · 2018 79% · 2019 87% · 2020 87% · 2021 91% · 2022 90% · 2023 90% · 2024 96% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of VERMONT CARES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Jen Lyon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $76k → $85k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 VERMONT CARES’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 CARES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 CARES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 33% · 2019 46% · 2020 38% · 2021 56% · 2022 50% · 2023 59% — 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.
How long its funders stay
18% of VERMONT CARES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
VERMONT CARES draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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 CARES's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT CARES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$25k
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 CARES
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERMONT CARES: 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 CARES?
- VERMONT CARES (Vermont) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $431,317 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL AIDS DIRECTORSDBA NASTAD ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT CARES have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $431,317 in grants to VERMONT CARES, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT CARES?
- NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE AND TERRITORIAL AIDS DIRECTORSDBA NASTAD is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT CARES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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