Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER
VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER (Vermont) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,089,415 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($351,055). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Vermont Folklife Center does
Mission
The vermont folklife's mission is to deepen our understanding of each other by engaging with communities across the state to document and share everyday expressions of tradition, innovation, and culture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Educational programs, exhibits, and archive management - the center continues to add to its archives and creates and presents a number of exhibits, radio programs, videos and films, and publications each year.
$758,383 spentof which $17,232 as grants$105,502 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $758,383.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $1.4M (−14%).
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 9% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 24% · 2021 25% · 2022 10% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Lindsey Harty
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $129k → $443k.
8 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 FOLKLIFE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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 FOLKLIFE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
71% 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 FOLKLIFE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 24% · 2019 48% · 2020 40% · 2021 25% · 2022 30% · 2023 28% — 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
40% of VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER'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 FOLKLIFE CENTER draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $918k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 FOLKLIFE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record — $1.3M federal, $7k state.
- National Archives and Records Administration$665k
- National Endowment for the Arts$342k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$247k
- Other Purchased Services$5k
- Advertising - Other$750
- Other Pers Serv$575
- Registration for Meetings&Conf$350
- Printing-Promotional$210
- Process&Printg Films,Microfilm$71
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 FOLKLIFE CENTER
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
81% 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 FOLKLIFE CENTER: 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 FOLKLIFE CENTER?
- VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER (Vermont) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,089,415 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($351,055). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,089,415 in grants to VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $351,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER 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 37 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