Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC
VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC (Vermont) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,336 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($137,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $440k
- Net assets
- $831k
What Vermont Family Network Inc does
Mission
Vfn's mission is to empower and support all vermont families of children with special needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vermont family network (vfn) empowers and supports all vermont families of children with special needs. Vfn is the federally designated family to family health information center and the parent training and information center for vermont, as well as the state's parent to parent and family voices organization. Vfn provides support, information and training as well as leadership opportunities for families throughout vermont. The organization provides professional development opportunities for its education, human services, and medical community partners, as well as utilizing the expertise of 31 skilled staff, many of whom are themselves parents of children with special needs. Their personal experience uniquely qualifies these staff to effectively support and inform the families who contact vermont family network for help. Vermont family network is a hub of information, referral and assistance services located in williston, with community-based regional family support consultants in newport and rutland. Vfn strives to educate families about their rights and their resources, and to assist professionals in understanding and fully engaging families as partners in every child's success.…
$1,392,421 spent$144,299 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,392,421.
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 $880k to $1.3M (+44%).
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 34% · 2018 29% · 2019 28% · 2020 30% · 2021 41% · 2022 67% · 2023 57% · 2024 75% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $15k → $84k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 FAMILY NETWORK 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 FAMILY NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% 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
73% 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 FAMILY NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 41% · 2020 37% · 2021 32% · 2022 43% · 2023 26% — 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
64% of VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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 FAMILY NETWORK INC draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $182k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 FAMILY NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.3M on record — $2.9M federal, $15.4M state.
- Department of Education$2.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$950k
- CSHN Program$2.5M
- MCH Planning$2.3M
- Other Grants$1.9M
- Families, Infants & Toddlers$1.6M
- Early Intervention$1.5M
- Children's Integrated Services$1.3M
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 FAMILY NETWORK 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FAMILY NETWORK 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 FAMILY NETWORK INC?
- VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC (Vermont) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $440,336 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($137,600). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $440,336 in grants to VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $137,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK 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 16 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