Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION
VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,000 to it, the largest being J WARREN AND LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION ($130,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundationlocalportfolio match
- George W Mergens Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Lionheart Charitable Trustlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
0% of VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $26k → $190k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION’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 SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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 SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 77% · 2022 58% — 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
100% of VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 2 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundationlocalportfolio matchVT · funds 48 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- George W Mergens Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchVT · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Lionheart Charitable Trustlocalportfolio matchVT · funds 39 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Childrens Trust Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchVT · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Federal Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchVT · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- MENTOR Vermont Inclocalportfolio matchVT · funds 12 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate Youth Services Incshared fundersVT · backs 22 organizations that share your funders
- Alchemist Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louise Judith and Edgar May Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Windham Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John M Bissell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oakland Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- Registration for Meetings&Conf$2k
- Dues$160
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 SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION
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.
Public support
100%
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 SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION: 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 SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION?
- VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $216,000 to it, the largest being J WARREN AND LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION ($130,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $216,000 in grants to VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION?
- J WARREN AND LOIS MCCLURE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT SCHOOL COUNSELOR ASSOCIATION 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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