Vermont · Nonprofit
White River Council on Aging
White River Council on Aging (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,302 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($49,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $669k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $556k
What White River Council on Aging does
Mission
White River Council on Aging invites older adults in the Upper Valley to age well through food, friendship, participation, and purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide older adults and their guests with congregate meals, provide meals to homebound older adults with Meals on Wheels program. For the fiscal year ending 9/30/25 the Council served a total of 29,949 meals, including 21,155 home delivered meals.
$362,883 spent57% of program spendingEnrichment and wellness activities, exercise programs, classes, trips, presentations, clinics, and social events. Attendance for these programs and activities was 12,734 for the fiscal year ending 9/30/25.
$234,529 spent37% of program spendingSocial services, including durable medical equipment loans, counseling appointments, medical transportation services, and food assistance. 806 service units were recorded during the fiscal year ending 9/30/25.
$36,260 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $633,672.
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 $485k to $640k (+32%).
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 62% · 2018 62% · 2019 65% · 2020 63% · 2021 68% · 2022 62% · 2023 48% · 2024 41% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of White River Council on Aging’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Emily Santaw
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $70k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 White River Council on Aging’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
White River Council on Aging leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 White River Council on Aging.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — 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
64% of White River Council on Aging's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
White River Council on Aging's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding White River Council on Aging receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- DAIL Grants$17k
- Other Grants-Service Agreemnt$13k
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$547
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 White River Council on Aging
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for White River Council on Aging: 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 White River Council on Aging?
- White River Council on Aging (Vermont) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $131,302 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($49,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does White River Council on Aging have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $131,302 in grants to White River Council on Aging, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of White River Council on Aging?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $49,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like White River Council on Aging 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.
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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 7 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