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Cone Automatic Machine Co Charitable

Ascutney, VT · EIN 03-6004866. Reported 143 grants totalling $362,500 to 59 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$362,500granted, 2020-2024
59organizations funded
74%of grantees funded again the next year
$767,378assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Cone Automatic Machine Co Charitable did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
17 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
110 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
11 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Mt Ascutney Hospital & Health CenterWindsor, VT$67,000552024
Visiting Nurse Alliance of Vt & NhWest Lebanon, NH$30,000552024
University of VermontBurlington, VT$24,000552024
Windsor Public LibraryWindsor, VT$21,000552024
David's HouseLebanon, NH$20,000552024
Historic Homes of RunnemedeLebanon, NH$20,000552024
University of New HampshireDunham, NH$15,500552024
Keene State CollegeKeene, NH$12,500332024
Bentley UniversityWaltham, MA$6,000222024
Rochester Inst of TechnologyRochester, NY$6,000332023
Southern New Hampshire UniversityManchester, NH$6,000332024
University of ConnecticutWaterbury, CT$5,500332023
University of New EnglandBiddeford, ME$5,500442023
American Precision MuseumWindsor, VT$5,000552024
Girl Scouts of the Green and White MountainsBedford, NH$5,000552024
Historic Windsor IncWindsor, VT$5,000552024
New England CollegeHenniker, NH$5,000332022
Windsor County MentorsWindsor, VT$5,000552024
Saint Anselm CollegeManchester, NH$4,500222024
University of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN$4,500222022
University of AkronAkron, OH$4,500222023
Whitman CollegeWalla Walla, WA$4,500222024
Marymount Manhattan CollegeNew York, NY$4,000332023
Old Dominion UniversityNorfolk, VA$4,000222022
Providence CollegeProvidence, RI$4,000112024
Quinnipiac UniversityHamden, CT$4,000332024
Roger Williams UniversityBristol, RI$4,000112024
Vermont State UniversityMontpelier, VT$4,000222024
Ohio UniversityAthens, OH$3,500112024
Champlain CollegeBurlington, VT$3,000112024
Plymouth State UniversityPlymouth, NH$3,000112024
University of the ArtsPhiladelphia, PA$3,000112020
Volunteers in ActionWindsor, VT$3,000332022
Boy Scouts Troop No 232Waterbury, VT$2,500552024
Boy Scouts Troop No 279Waterbury, VT$2,500552024
Colby Sawyer CollegeNew London, NH$2,500222024
Vermont Public RadioColchester, VT$2,500552024
Wheaton CollegeNorton, MA$2,500112020
Emerson CollegeBoston, MA$2,000112021
Norwich UniversityNorthfield, VT$2,000222021
Unc CharlotteCharlotte, NC$2,000112024
University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA$2,000112021
Castleton UniversityCastleton, VT$1,500112022
Jackson BalchHartland, VT$1,500112023
John Carroll UniversityUniversity Heights, OH$1,500112020
Northern Vermont UniversityJohnson, VT$1,500112021
River Valley Community CollegeClaremont, NH$1,500112024
Saint Michael's CollegeColchester, VT$1,500112020
University of Mass DartmouthDartmouth, MA$1,500112024
University of Rhode IslandKingston, RI$1,500112022
Wyotech Technical InstituteLaramie, WY$1,500112024
Kent State UniversityKent, OH$1,000112020
Liberty UniversityLynchburg, VA$1,000112021
UCLALos Angeles, CA$1,000112021
Unity CollegeUnity, ME$1,000112020
Vermont Technical CollegeRandolph Center, VT$1,000112021
Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWorcester, MA$1,000112020
Boy Scouts Troop No 218Waterbury, VT$500112020
Rogue Robots of 4HClaremont, NH$500112024

32 of 59 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 74%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 80 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
50 grants
Arts & Culture
10 grants
Health Care
10 grants
Youth Development
10 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202027$65,000$1,000
202130$71,000$1,500
202228$73,500$1,500
202326$66,000$1,500
202432$87,000$1,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 42% of this one's giving went to organizations in Vermont. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Vermont
$154K
New Hampshire
$126K
Massachusetts
$13K
Ohio
$10K
New York
$10K
Connecticut
$10K
Rhode Island
$10K
Maine
$6K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Vermont.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Cone Automatic Machine Co Charitable's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 167, Ascutney, VT, 05030. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 03-6004866 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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