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The University of Vermont Medical Center

Burlington, VT · EIN 03-0219309. Reported 88 grants totalling $7,368,774 to 43 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

43organizations funded
$50,000median reported grant
$7,368,774granted, 2020-2023
68%of grantees funded again the next year
23%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For The University of Vermont Medical Center, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E22Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 23% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $35,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $5,134 and the largest $473,800. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
18 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
35 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
13 grants
$250,000 Or More
9 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of Vermont and State Agricultural CollegeBurlington, VT$1,672,860642023
United Way of Northwest Vermont IncS Burlington, VT$1,180,000442023
Hudson Headwaters Health NetworkQueensbury, NY$739,468332022
Community Health Centers of Burlington IncBurlington, VT$406,500442023
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College FoundationBurlington, VT$370,497332022
Pathways Vermont IncS Burlington, VT$215,000442023
American Cancer Society IncAtlanta, GA$206,000332022
Janet S Munt Family RoomBurlington, VT$150,000332023
Vermont Business RoundtableSouth Burlington, VT$150,000332022
Anew Place IncBurlington, VT$146,400332022
Vermonters for Criminal Justice ReformBurlington, VT$145,350332023
Howardcenter IncBurlington, VT$145,000112020
Turning Point Center of Chittenden County IncBurlington, VT$110,000222022
Vermont Professionals of Color NetworkS Burlington, VT$109,112332022
Lund Family Center IncBurlington, VT$106,500222021
Champlain Housing TrBurlington, VT$101,049112022
Boys and Girls Club of Burlington IncBurlington, VT$100,000222023
Building Bright Futures State Council IncWilliston, VT$100,000112020
Burlington Housing AuthorityBurlington, VT$100,000222021
Chittenden Community TelevisionBurlington, VT$100,000222023
Dad Guild IncBurlington, VT$100,000222023
Vermont Foundation of Recovery IncBurlington, VT$100,000112021
The Dream Program IncE Fairfield, VT$75,000332023
Spectrum IncBurlington, VT$71,000222021
Center for Health and Learning LtdShelburne, VT$69,046112020
Mercy Connections IncBurlington, VT$67,500222021
Vermont Ethics Network IncMontpelier, VT$60,000332022
Vermont Housing Finance AgencyBurlington, VT$57,000222023
Dismas of Vermont IncWinooski, VT$50,000112023
Vermont Interfaith Action IncBurlington, VT$50,000112023
Vermont Racial Justice AllianceBurlington, VT$50,000112022
Gotcha Mobility LLCCharleston, SC$40,000112020
Kidsafe Collaborative IncBurlington, VT$37,500112020
Community Resilience OrganizationsBurlington, VT$37,000112023
Vermont Recovery Network IncBrattleboro, VT$28,358112022
Greater Burlington Young Mens Christian Association IncBurlington, VT$25,000112020
City of BurlingtonBurlington, VT$23,000112022
Vermont Chamber Foundation IncMontpelier, VT$20,000222021
National Academy of SciencesWashington, DC$15,000112020
Trustees of Dartmouth CollegeHanover, NH$12,500112020
Vermont Green Up IncMontpelier, VT$12,000222021
Homeshare Vermont IncS Burlington, VT$10,000112023
Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor IncorporatedVergennes, VT$5,134112023

25 of 43 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 16 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 43 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
9 orgs
Education
6 orgs
Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Crime & Legal
3 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202025$1,820,706$50,000
202122$1,897,717$50,000
202224$2,190,357$50,000
202317$1,459,994$50,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

86% of its giving went to organizations in Vermont. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Vermont
$6.4M
New York
$739K
Georgia
$206K
South Carolina
$40K
District of Columbia
$15K
New Hampshire
$12K

Down to the city

Burlington, VT
$4.3M
S Burlington, VT
$1.5M
Queensbury, NY
$739K
Atlanta, GA
$206K
South Burlington, VT
$150K
Williston, VT
$100K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.

The Vermont Community Foundation31 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund31 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc20 shared recipientsUnited Way of Northwest Vermont Inc15 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program13 shared recipientsNational Life Group Charitable13 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Vermont.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The University of Vermont Medical Center's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 111 Colchester Avenue, Burlington, VT, 05401.

EIN 03-0219309 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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