Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT
VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $973k
What Vermont Interfaith Power and Light does
Mission
Vermont Interfaith Power and Light (vtipl) works to help members of vermont's faith and spiritual communities understand that the climate crisis which is threatening the viability of life on earth is a spiritual crisis. Vtipl conducts educational programs designed to empower members of faith and spiritual communities to advocate for our earth and future generations. Vtipl offers education and funding to help people of faith and congregations take action to conserve energy, use it efficiently, and increase the use of renewable energy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Vermont Interfaith Power and Light (VTIPL) offers Christian Churches in Vermont, and in select towns of New Hampshire, matching grants for energy efficiency improvements in church-owned buildings. VTIPL now has two programs that provide matching grants to Vermont faith communities to help them fund projects which will reduce the pollution that contributes to climate change. This program, supported exclusively by the Katy Gerke Memorial Fund, helps Christian churches. A second program, supported by the Ellie Cressey Webster Memorial Fund (described separately in this response to Form 990, Part III, line 4c), offers grants to all non-Christian faith communities. The two programs, which together serve all Vermont faith communities, are now managed under one name, the VTIPL Climate Action Grant Program. In 2023 VTIPL awarded four matching grants to Vermont Christian churches and one grant to New Hampshire Interfaith Power and Light (NHIPL). The four grants to churches, which totaled $40,027, supported church building improvements that will reduce the climate pollution produced by heating and cooling these church facilities. VTIPL also granted NHIPL, an independent 501c3 organization…
$70,508 spentof which $68,008 as grants$23,077 earned by the program79% of program spendingThe principal VTIPL mission is to help members of all Vermont's faith and spiritual communities understand and address the climate crisis. Almost all volunteer and staff hours are committed to conducting education and providing a variety of resources for faith communities, while also facilitating communication among Vermont's diverse faith communities to take action to address the climate crisis. This work is funded with unrestricted donations from scores of individuals and congregations. VTIPL emphasizes the need to act locally to support state, regional, and global action to reduce the pace of climate change and to prepare communities for the unavoidable consequences of a changing global climate. Accomplishments: VTIPL produces a monthly newsletter to update faith communities on publications, activities in Vermont, the U.S. and beyond, and on new program initiatives that support faith and spirit communities' efforts to address climate change, while also keeping VTIPL's community apprised of climate and related environmental events and news more broadly. VTIPL monitors and shares news of faith community action elsewhere in the nation and around the globe, partnering with the…
$17,985 spentof which $50 as grants$543 earned by the program20% of program spendingIn 2022 VTIPL launched the Ellie Cressey Webster Memorial Fund (ECWMF), modeled on the VTIPL program serving Christian churches (see item 4a). This new program is designed to provide matching grant funding for carbon emission reducing improvements buildings in the buildings of faith communities not served by the Katy Gerke Memorial Fund, which is restricted to serving Christian churches. Together these two programs enable VTIPL to serve all Vermont faith communities and are now managed under one name, the VTIPL Climate Action Grant Program. In 2023, the second year of this new program, VTIPL provided matching grants, which totaled $750, to two Unitarian Universalist congregations to help pay the cost to conduct energy audits of their congregations' buildings. The ECWMF is comprised primarily of "unusual grants" from two major donors and several small donors who have contributed restricted donations to enable VTIPL to extend matching Climate Action Grant Program support to all Vermont faith communities. Additional income comes from interest earned on the program funds which are invested in an interest earning bank account and certificates of deposit at a local community-serving…
$814 spentof which $775 as grants$195 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $89,307.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $897k to $674k (−25%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $6k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT’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 INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
74% of VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT'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 $20k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
21%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT?
- VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT (Vermont) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $76,000 in grants to VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT INTERFAITH POWER AND LIGHT 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 3 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