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United Way of Addison County Inc

Middlebury, VT · EIN 03-0221018. Reported 74 grants totalling $2,672,548 to 27 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

27organizations funded
$14,133median reported grant
$2,672,548granted, 2020-2023
87%of grantees funded again the next year
58%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 United Way of Addison County Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 27 distinct organizations, with 58% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 87% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $14,133. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $22,368; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $389,554. 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
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
43 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$250,000 Or More
4 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
Otter Creek Child Center IncMiddlebury, VT$1,539,948642023
John W Graham Emergency Shelter Services IncVergennes, VT$129,617332023
Addison County Community Action Group IncMiddlebury, VT$119,919332023
Middlebury Transitional Care Coalition IncMiddlebury, VT$98,177442023
Counseling Service of Addison County IncMiddlebury, VT$66,112442023
Tri-Valley Transit IncMiddlebury, VT$65,110332023
Community Health Services of Addison CountyMiddlebury, VT$64,868332023
Atria Collective IncMiddlebury, VT$53,341332022
United Ways of VermontEssex Jct, VT$50,719332022
Addison County Community TrustVergennes, VT$48,730332023
20 Armory Lane Community After- School Group IncVergennes, VT$44,470332023
Vermont Adult Learning IncBurlington, VT$42,992332023
Bristol Family CenterBristol, VT$40,592332023
Parent - Child Center IncMiddlebury, VT$39,426332023
Starksboro Cooperative Preschool IncStarksboro, VT$34,004332023
Age Well IncColchester, VT$32,036332023
Mary Johnson Childrens CenterWeybridge, VT$30,928332023
Elderly Services IncMiddlebury, VT$29,237332023
Turning Point Center of Addisoncounty IncMiddlebury, VT$27,097222023
Adison Allies Network IncorporatedMiddlebury, VT$23,968332023
Addison County Home Health & Hospice IncMiddlebury, VT$22,607332023
Teen Center IncMiddlebury, VT$21,975222023
The Hub Teen CenterBristol, VT$13,975112022
Teen Makery After School ProgramMiddlebury, VT$10,000112023
Willowell Foundation IncNew Haven, VT$10,000112023
Bristol Recreation ClubBristol, VT$7,500112023
Middlebury Area Land TrustMiddlebury, VT$5,200112023

22 of 27 (81%) 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 1 group 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 kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 27 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
7 orgs
Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202021$717,544$14,300
20215$413,603$9,040
202223$806,361$16,332
202325$735,040$12,000

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

Middlebury, VT
$2.2M
Vergennes, VT
$223K
Bristol, VT
$62K
Essex Jct, VT
$51K
Burlington, VT
$43K
Starksboro, VT
$34K
Colchester, VT
$32K
Weybridge, VT
$31K

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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 Foundation21 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsAgnes M Lindsay Trust6 shared recipientsFuller Family Charitable Trust6 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsFanny Allen Corporation5 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 $14,133 -- 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from United Way of Addison County Inc'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 25 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: Po Box 555, Middlebury, VT, 05753.

EIN 03-0221018 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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