Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC
VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($50). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50
- Net assets
- $0
What Vermont College of Fine Arts Foundation Inc does
Mission
To provide financial support for the operations and programs of vermont college of fine arts, inc.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2022 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The foundation transferred its remaining assets to vcfa in conjunction with the unwind of the new markets tax credit financing. See schedule n for futher details. The foundation did not formally dissolve at that time, but plans to do so in february/march 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
To provide financial support for the operations and programs of vermont college of fine arts, inc. The foundation transferred all remaining assets to the college in september 2022 as part of the new market tax credits unwind.
$8,574,842 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,574,842.
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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $24 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC
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In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Vermont College of Fine Arts Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($50). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50 in grants to VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS FOUNDATION INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), 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