Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT FOODBANK
VERMONT FOODBANK (Vermont) receives grants from 302 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,349,641 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($9,005,334). 204 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 302
- Grants received
- $37M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Vermont Foodbank does
Mission
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fiscal year 2025, Vermont Foodbank distributed more than 14.1 million pounds of donated food, usda foods, and purchased food directly to individuals and to more than 220 network partners. Of that, over 4.4 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables were distributed, and 50% of the food distributed was fresh food (produce, meat, eggs, and dairy). Vermont Foodbank also worked with almost 225 vermont farms to purchase, gather and share close to $1.9 million worth of vermont-grown food. During the same period, the foodbank funded 369 grants totaling close to $1.3m to network and program partner organizations. These grants, which reached every county in vermont, deepened our impact and helped solve targeted challenges to food access in local communities (examples include increasing refrigeration capacity to enabling purchasing fresh produce from local, small-scale farms).the foodbank also worked with 77 partners, housing sites, hospitals, and schools to host a total of 760 fresh food distribution events across all vermont counties, distributing fresh foods to an average of more than 10,000 households a month. The Vermont Foodbank continues to see increases in expenses over…
$28,702,812 spentof which $19,845,703 as grants$152,772 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $28,702,812.
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 2020 to 2021, from $25M to $36M (+45%).
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 24% · 2018 11% · 2019 17% · 2020 18% · 2021 17% · 2022 31% · 2023 20% · 2024 1% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of VERMONT FOODBANK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (96% 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.
Chief executive
John Sayles
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Mitzi Johnson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 56 funders to 136 funders, grant income rose $707k → $5.0M.
47 of 302 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 FOODBANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 302 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 FOODBANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
79% 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 FOODBANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 31% · 2019 54% · 2020 20% · 2021 71% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% — 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
50% of VERMONT FOODBANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
64% of VERMONT FOODBANK'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. Of the $13M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 29 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 27 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 FOODBANK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 201 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 201 food & nutrition nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT FOODBANK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35.9M on record — $1.5M federal, $34.4M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.0M
- Department of Agriculture$500k
- Miscellaneous Grants$14.3M
- Emergency Food Assistance$5.8M
- Other Grants$5.7M
- Com Supplemental Food Program$3.6M
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$1.9M
- FS Outreach Prog$1.2M
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 FOODBANK
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERMONT FOODBANK: 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 FOODBANK?
- VERMONT FOODBANK (Vermont) receives grants from 302 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,349,641 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($9,005,334). 204 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VERMONT FOODBANK have?
- IRS filings report 302 organizations giving $37,349,641 in grants to VERMONT FOODBANK, 204 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT FOODBANK?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $9,005,334 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT FOODBANK 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 302 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing