Vt Association of Snow Travelers
Barre, VT · EIN 23-7157363. Reported 148 grants totalling $2,145,335 to 72 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 72 distinct organizations, with 6% 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.
- How much its list changes. 58% 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 $11,131. Half of what it reported fell between $7,493 and $16,776; the smallest was $5,040 and the largest $80,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canaan Borders Riders Inc | Canaan, VT | $128,460 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Woodford Snobusters Inc | Woodford, VT | $112,469 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Driftdusters Snowmobile Club Inc | Derby, VT | $88,713 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Vermont Snow Trails Conservancy Charitable Tr | Barre, VT | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gihon Trk Packers | Eden, VT | $72,813 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brighton Snowmobile Club | Island Pond, VT | $67,881 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Plymouth Snow Sneakers Snowmobile Associates Inc | Plymouth, VT | $65,712 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Valley Sno-Riders Inc | Guildhall, VT | $63,004 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Washington County Mountain Tamers | East Calais, VT | $55,591 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Twinfield Snow Travelers | Marshfield, VT | $53,122 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Northeast Kingdom Snow Blasters | Norton, VT | $51,912 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Barre Town Thunder Chickens | Barre, VT | $51,089 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Corinth Sno-Scramblers Inc | Fairlee, VT | $48,426 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Chittenden Dammers Inc | Chittenden, VT | $48,409 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Buttonwood Chesterites Snowmobile Club Inc | Chester, VT | $48,230 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Long Hill Snowmobile Club | Woodstock, VT | $46,474 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Snow Flake Ridge Runners Club | Hardwick, VT | $43,090 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Barnard Mountainviewers Snowmobile Club | Bethel, VT | $39,968 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bridgewater Sno-Zippers | Bridgewater, VT | $38,071 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Grafton Outing Club | Grafton, VT | $34,257 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lunenburg Polar Bears Snowmobile Club | Lunenburg, VT | $33,990 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Glover Trail Winders | Glover, VT | $33,158 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Deerfield Valley Stump Jumpers Inc | West Dover, VT | $32,141 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Weywehaeuser Company | Colebrook, NH | $31,573 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Mad River Ridge Runners | Waitsfield, VT | $31,029 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Buckaroos of 302 | Groton, VT | $30,679 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Orleans Snowstormers Inc | Newport, VT | $30,143 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lamoille County Sno Packers Inc | Morrisville, VT | $29,380 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cold Hollow Bearcats Inc | Enosburg, VT | $27,128 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| White River Valley Snow Goers Inc | Braintree, VT | $24,418 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Driftskippers of Burke | West Burke, VT | $23,714 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Green Mountain Roamers Snowmobile Club | Waterbury, VT | $23,362 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Smugglers Notch Club | Jeffersonville, VT | $23,242 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Country Riders Snowmobile Club Inc | Troy, VT | $23,035 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lyndon Sno Cruisers | Lyndonville, VT | $22,381 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ez Riders Snowmobile Club Inc | Jacksonville, VT | $22,303 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hazens Notch Snowmobile Club | Lowell, VT | $21,602 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Topsham Ridge Runners Inc | Topsham, VT | $20,008 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Frigid Frost Fighters Inc | Chelsea, VT | $19,412 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lyndon Sno Cruisers | Lyndonville, VT | $18,927 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sno-Bees Inc | Barre, VT | $18,826 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Andover Mountaineers | Andover, VT | $18,665 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sterling Snow Riders Inc | Johnson, VT | $17,688 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| M Brown Trucking & Snowplowing | East Montpelier, VT | $17,165 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington Snow Flyers Inc | Washington, VT | $16,847 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tweed Valley Travelers Inc | Pittsfield, VT | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bayley Hazen Road Sno-Mobile Club Inc | Peacham, VT | $16,192 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Poultney Valley Snowmobile Devils Inc | Poultney, VT | $15,963 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Side Hill Cronchers Inc | Ludlow, VT | $15,657 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Danville S-Ski-Mo Club Inc | West Danville, VT | $15,519 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hawks Mountain Ridge Riders Snowmobile Club Springfield Inc | N Springfield, VT | $13,739 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| White River Valley Ramblers | Bethel, VT | $13,243 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Coles Pond Sledders Inc | Hardwick, VT | $13,160 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Route 100 Snow Travelers Inc | Rochester, VT | $12,491 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| West Windsor Moonlighters Inc | Windsor, VT | $12,267 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cavendish Green Mountain Snow Fleas | Proctorsville, VT | $12,185 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Craftsbury Snow Chargers | Craftsbury, VT | $12,103 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Upper Valley Snow Packers | W Fairlee, VT | $11,585 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Newark E-Z Riders Inc | Newark, VT | $10,606 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Moose River Rock Dodgers | Granby, VT | $10,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mount Abe Snowsports | Mount Holly, VT | $10,374 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Caledonia County Snowmobile Club | St Johnsbury Ctr, VT | $9,458 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Williston Hill Hawks Inc | Williston, VT | $9,098 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hurricane Riders Snowmobile Club | White Riv Jct, VT | $8,810 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Worcester Rangers | Worcester, VT | $8,316 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Franklin County Snow Raiders | Fairfax, VT | $7,623 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ferrisburgh Sledheads | Ferrisburgh, VT | $7,368 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weathersfield Pathfinders Snowmobile Club Inc | Perkinsville, VT | $7,235 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fletcher Roughriders Snowmobile Club Inc | E Fairfield, VT | $7,114 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blue Mountain Trucking & Excavating | South Ryegate, VT | $6,922 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shrewsbury Sno Birds | Cuttingsville, VT | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harvey's Plumbing and Excavating L | Rochester, VT | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
45 of 72 (62%) 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.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 21 of 72 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 32 | $357,976 | $8,053 |
| 2021 | 32 | $412,244 | $12,063 |
| 2022 | 34 | $513,267 | $11,745 |
| 2023 | 50 | $861,848 | $12,856 |
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
99% 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.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,131 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Vermont.
- 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 Vt Association of Snow Travelers'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 4 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 46 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: 26 Vast Lane, Barre, VT, 05641.
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