Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,760 to it, the largest being Vermont Afterschool Inc ($35,720). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC has grown faster than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Vermont Council on the Arts Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- George W Mergens Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- High Meadows Fund Incshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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 4% · 2022 1% · 2023 33% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $46k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 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 MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
65% of VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 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. $31k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Vermont Council on the Arts Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchVT · backs 90 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- George W Mergens Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchVT · backs 71 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- High Meadows Fund Incshared fundersportfolio matchVT · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Humanities Councilshared fundersportfolio matchVT · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Robert K & a Joyce Jones Foundationlocalportfolio matchNJ · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate Youth Services Incshared fundersVT · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- John M Bissell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lintilhac Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oakland Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Hampshire Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont InclocalVT · funds 15 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- Dues$1k
- Trade Show & Events$608
- Office Supplies$464
- Fire, Protection & Safety$348
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 MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC?
- VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,760 to it, the largest being Vermont Afterschool Inc ($35,720). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $92,760 in grants to VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY INC?
- Vermont Afterschool Inc is the largest funder on record, with $35,720 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing