Grantmakers

Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in Vermont

These 32 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in Vermont that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

32grantmaking charities
$351.5Mgranted between them
3,385funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded. A grantmaker supporting sixty groups is a more realistic prospect than one writing two very large cheques, which is why this is not ranked by dollars.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
The Vermont Community FoundationMiddlebury$16,0001,329$140.9M
Vermont Council on the Arts IncMontpelier$15,000257$13.1M
Brattleboro Development Credit CorpBrattleboro$10,000213$2.7M
World Learning IncBrattleboro$16,174179$21.8M
Vermont FoodbankBarre$32,415170$77.4M
Vermont Afterschool IncSouth Burlington$24,576163$9.0M
Preservation Trust of Vermont IncMontpelier$15,250112$4.9M
Let's Grow Kids IncMiddlebury$25,926108$5.1M
United Way of Northwest Vermont IncSouth Burlington$20,00082$4.0M
Vt Association of Snow TravelersBarre$11,13172$2.1M
Vermont Humanities CouncilMontpelier$10,00059$854K
The University of Vermont Medical CenterBurlington$50,00043$7.4M
Vermont Association of ConservationWaitsfield$10,65542$1.2M
Miles for MigraineJericho$14,74641$1.8M
Watersheds United Vermont IncMontpelier$29,78541$5.2M
Institute for Sustainable CommunitiesMontpelier$75,00035$6.0M
Rutland Hospital IncRutland$26,14134$3.3M
Vermont Energy Investment CorporationWinooski$147,59734$11.4M
Elevate Youth Services IncBarre$37,91233$7.9M
White Swan Foundation IncRichmond$10,00033$486K
Vermont Low Income Trust forMontpelier$95,00031$4.5M
New England Rural Health AssociationBarre$75,00028$3.4M
Northeast Organic FarmingRichmond$12,00028$593K
United Way of Addison County IncMiddlebury$14,13327$2.7M
American Academy of Pediatrics-Vt ChapterMontpelier$10,00027$652K
Champlain Housing TrustBurlington$39,33526$2.6M
Vermont Public HealthBurlington$28,56725$2.9M
Mentor Vermont IncBurlington$22,76625$3.2M
J Warren and Lois Mcclure FoundationMiddlebury$25,00024$3.1M
Chittenden Community TelevisionBurlington$45,00023$955K
Council on Aging for SoutheasternSpringfield$8,50021$291K
Coming Clean IncBrattleboro$13,52720$328K
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.

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