Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC
VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $229,331 to it, the largest being THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ($66,530). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $164k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $229k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Vermont Chamber Foundation Inc does
Mission
The vermont futures project is an independent non-partisan organization with a goal of providing a vision that supports and encourages long-term economic growth for vermont, providing data and recommendations to achieve this goal. The vermont futures project will position the economy in the center of a statewide discussion about vermont's future, enriching that discussion with data, benchmarks, and research demonstrating how a healthy economy provides opportunities for people and contributes to vermont's unique quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The vermont futures project is the beneficiary of donations from businesses and individuals that directly supports research and education related to vermont's economy. In terms of research, the funding has gone towards developing a public web dashboard with metrics that track vermont's economic health and the production of reports to interpret the metrics. On the education front, funding has supported a video interview series with thought leaders to provide insights on vermont's economy from a variety of perspectives. Our next major initiative will be to develop a statewide economic plan in collaboration with community partners to establish unified goals and targets for economic development.
$164,291 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $164,291.
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 $139k to $92k (−34%).
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.
99% of VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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.
Chief executive
Kevin Chu
Executive director
Board chair
Evan Langfeldt
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $45k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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 CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 48% · 2022 50% · 2023 22% — 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
100% of VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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. $88k 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 CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 1,448 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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.
Public support
71%
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 CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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 CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC?
- VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $229,331 to it, the largest being THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ($66,530). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $229,331 in grants to VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC?
- THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $66,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT CHAMBER FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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