Vermont · Nonprofit
WILMINGTON WORKS INC
WILMINGTON WORKS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,591 to it, the largest being SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC ($218,570). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $258k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $275k
- Net assets
- $226k
What Wilmington Works Inc does
Mission
To build, support, and improve a vital downtown in Wilmington, VT. We support businesses by connecting them to business support information available locally as well as attracting business from residents and locals. We attract visitation to the downtown through free public events and promotions. Through art and other investments, we make improvements to the physical space downtown.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We executed a Facade Improvement Grant for Wilmington building owners to apply and receive funding for facade improvement. In addition we ran a Business Plan Competition awarding three winners to open, relocate, and expand their businesses.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Facade Improvement Grant: We awarded 14 building owners a total of $150,000 to make necessary facade improvements that included a full facade change, siding, windows, painting, signage, roof, and landscaping.
$64,478 spentof which $150,000 as grants51% of program spendingBusiness Plan Competition: We ran a business plan competition called Make it on Main Street to give entrepreneurs a chance to open, expand, or relocate to our Main Street in Downtown Wilmington.
$44,255 spentof which $110,000 as grants35% of program spendingPromotions : The organization planned and executed free community events. We also produced print material and sponsored advertising to encourage tourists and residents to visit the downtown area and frequent small local businesses. Benefit to business owners and their employees via stimulating activity in the area. These events and promotions were supported in part by sponsorship by the town of Wilmington in the amount of $10,430
$13,026 spentof which $10,430 as grants10% of program spendingDesign : We completed many design projects this year around downtown, including downtown pole banners, wayfinding sign, and. maintaining our dog waste stations.
$4,312 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $126,071.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $77k to $166k (+115%).
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 9% · 2022 33% · 2023 42% · 2024 19% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WILMINGTON WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $16.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 WILMINGTON WORKS 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
WILMINGTON WORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 WILMINGTON WORKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
0% of WILMINGTON WORKS INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% 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
97% of WILMINGTON WORKS 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. $34k 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
WILMINGTON WORKS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WILMINGTON WORKS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $83k on record.
- Grants$60k
- Grants to Municipalities$23k
- Travel-Inst-Meals-Nonemp$337
- Travel-Inst-Meals-Emp$34
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 WILMINGTON WORKS 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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILMINGTON WORKS 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 WILMINGTON WORKS INC?
- WILMINGTON WORKS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $274,591 to it, the largest being SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC ($218,570). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILMINGTON WORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $274,591 in grants to WILMINGTON WORKS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILMINGTON WORKS INC?
- SOUTHEASTERN VERMONT COMMUNITY ACTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $218,570 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILMINGTON WORKS 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.
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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 2019–2025), and the filings of 8 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