Vermont · Nonprofit
Woodstock Community Trust Inc
Woodstock Community Trust Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,245,371 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($436,097). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $924k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Woodstock Community Trust Inc does
Mission
Woodstock Community Trust is a non-profit umbrella organization that empowers teams to carry out local projects to improve the quality of life in our community. It is built on a simple but innovative idea: create a single organization that provides administrative and finacial services to multiple volunteer-driven community groups in the Woodstock, Vermont area so that they can focus more efficiently on their core missions. More than 70 volunteers now work on the eight Projects under Woodstock Community Trusts umbrella. Each project promotes a healthier and more vibrant community in its own distinctive way. - Local Deeds helps people who work in the community buy a home through a deeds restriction program - The HUB offers a community-funded confidential safety net to people who are struggling to make ends meet. -East End Park maintains and improves a lively community space -Woodstock Village Conservancy connects, beautifies and maintains public spaces. -Ottauquechee River Trail enhances
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Building on the success of the Woodstock Area Relief Fund (WARF) that was established during the COVID-19 pandemic, THE HUB makes it easier for residents to get the help they need during a personal or community crisis by connecting people to both private and public sources of support.
$225,855 spentof which $155,452 as grants30% of program spendingLOCAL DEEDS protects housing for families and individuals who live and work, or will work, in the local community year-round. Homebuyers or owners receive a one-time cash payment in exchange for permanent deed restrictions on their property.
$374,983 spent50% of program spendingWoodstock residents and visitors of all ages come together at East End Park to relax, plan and connect with each other. The park represents the culmination of more than a decade of work by area residents who transformed a previously neglected corner of the Village into an inviting community space. The group continues to maintain the area and plan for its future. the park has become a treasured community asset, a jewel created from a jungle.
$87,664 spentof which $52,104 as grants12% of program spendingOther programs include: (1)inner rhythms (2)pride of woodstock (3)ottauquechee river trail (4)woodstock village conservancy (5)little branches learning center (6) mountain views education fund
$62,607 spentof which $11,416 as grants$18,225 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $751,109.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $858k to $1.5M (+72%).
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: 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Woodstock Community Trust Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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
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.
Chief executive
Tesha Buss
Interim Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $153k → $462k.
10 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Woodstock Community Trust 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
Woodstock Community Trust Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 Woodstock Community Trust Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 20% · 2021 23% · 2022 41% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of Woodstock Community Trust Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
76% of Woodstock Community Trust Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $298k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Vermont, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $947k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Woodstock Community Trust Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Woodstock Community Trust Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.
- Grants$6k
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 Woodstock Community Trust 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 Woodstock Community Trust 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 Woodstock Community Trust Inc?
- Woodstock Community Trust Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,245,371 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($436,097). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Woodstock Community Trust Inc have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,245,371 in grants to Woodstock Community Trust Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Woodstock Community Trust Inc?
- THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $436,097 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Woodstock Community Trust 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing