Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC (Vermont) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,561,414 to it, the largest being HENRY P KENDALL FOUNDATION ($1,436,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc does
Mission
We nurture the economic prosperity, ecological health, and social connectivity of people, businesses, organizations and communities in vermont for the benefit and well-being of all who live here.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The vermont sustainable jobs fund (vsjf) was designated by the vermont legislature in 2009 to serve as the administrator of the farm to plate investment program, with the aim of strengthening vermont's food system over ten years. In 2019, the legislature reauthorized another ten years of the farm to plate investment program to: increase sustainable economic development and create jobs in vermont's food and farm sector; 2. Improve soils, water, and resiliency of the working landscape in the face of climate change; and 3. Improve access to healthy local foods for all vermonters.
$860,719 spentof which $49,000 as grants$32,897 earned by the program36% of program spendingThe vermont sustainable jobs fund's business assistance program serves clients connected to agriculture and food system, forest product, waste management, renewable energy, and environmental technology sectors. We provide tailored, high-touch planning, coaching, and advising for business owners and their management teams to advance profitability, job creation, and sustainable business development.
$609,915 spentof which $25,000 as grants$33,766 earned by the program26% of program spendingThe vermont sustainable jobs fund's forest products program supports and promotes vermont's forest products industry through the development of value chain investment strategies and a communications strategy to improve market opportunities for the industry. The program is a collaborative partnership between the vermont sustainable jobs fund and the vermont working lands enterprise initiative center.
$195,565 spent8% of program spendingThe deltaclimevt business accelerator is a vermont-based program serving startup and seed-stage ventures focusing on climate economy innovation across multiple industries. Our three immersive sprints help companies refine their vision, solidify their strategy, and enable rapid growth. Participants graduate with improved business plans, new tools to attract investors, and the potential to grow their business opportunities in vermont and beyond. The flexible capital fund, l3c (flex fund) is a mission-based, for profit investment fund launched in 2011 that provides flexible risk capital to innovative growth stage companies in vermont's food system, forestry and clean technology sectors. The vermont sustainable jobs fund serves as the flex fund's manager, and through contractual arrangement provides fund management services and administrative support to the flex fund on a fee for service basis. Decision-making authority and governance for the flex fund is done solely through the flex fund's board of managers.
$706,707 spentof which $36,225 as grants$191,344 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,372,906.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $3.6M (+27%).
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 32% · 2018 39% · 2019 27% · 2020 35% · 2021 20% · 2022 34% · 2023 46% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Shelly Severinghaus
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $201k → $716k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $130k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND 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 SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
33% 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 SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 25% · 2019 20% · 2020 41% · 2021 30% · 2022 42% · 2023 38% — 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.
How long its funders stay
46% of VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $964k 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 SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,551 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,551 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.5M on record — $770k federal, $9.7M state.
- Small Business Administration$520k
- Department of Agriculture$250k
- Other Grants$7.2M
- Grants$1.0M
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$856k
- Other Direct Grant Expense$334k
- Chronic Disease Programs$125k
- Contr&3rdPty-Creative/Developm$52k
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 SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Vsjf Flexible Capital Fund L3c · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC?
- VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC (Vermont) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,561,414 to it, the largest being HENRY P KENDALL FOUNDATION ($1,436,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $5,561,414 in grants to VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND INC?
- HENRY P KENDALL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,436,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND 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 29 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