Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC
VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,971,425 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,032,450). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $736k
What Vermont Council on Rural Development Inc does
Mission
The Vermont Council on Rural Development helps Vermont citizens build prosperous and resilient communities through democratic engagement, marshalling resources, and collective action.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Help Vermonters and Vermont communities develop their capacity to create a prosperous and sustainable future through coordination, collaboration, and the effective use of public and private resources.
$1,127,789 spentof which $76,655 as grants$100,683 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,127,789.
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 2019 to 2020, from $435k to $642k (+48%).
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 22% · 2018 16% · 2019 22% · 2020 30% · 2021 34% · 2022 23% · 2023 28% · 2024 45% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Shannon Barsotti
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $241k → $292k.
3 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT 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 COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 59% · 2019 33% · 2020 38% · 2021 62% · 2022 39% · 2023 64% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
71% of VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT 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. $1.3M 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 COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record — $520k federal, $1.6M state.
- Department of Agriculture$520k
- Other Grants$901k
- Grants to Municipalities$423k
- Grants$119k
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$60k
- Contr&3rdPty-Creative/Developm$20k
- Sponsorships$18k
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 COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT 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.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT 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 COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC?
- VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC (Vermont) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,971,425 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,032,450). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,971,425 in grants to VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT INC?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,032,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT COUNCIL ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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