Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in Vermont

These 34 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.

34grantmaking charities

$400.0Mgranted between them

3,691funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific grantmaker is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

Organization	Based in	Median grant	Organizations	Total granted
The Vermont Community Foundation	Middlebury	$16,000	1,329	$140.9M
Vermont Council on the Arts Inc	Montpelier	$15,000	269	$14.0M
World Learning Inc	Brattleboro	$17,268	228	$27.0M
Brattleboro Development Credit Corp	Brattleboro	$10,000	214	$2.8M
Vermont Foodbank	Barre	$20,000	193	$98.6M
Vermont Afterschool Inc	South Burlington	$22,846	177	$9.8M
Preservation Trust of Vermont Inc	Montpelier	$16,090	147	$8.7M
Let's Grow Kids Inc	Middlebury	$25,926	108	$5.1M
United Way of Northwest Vermont Inc	South Burlington	$18,826	84	$5.1M
Vt Association of Snow Travelers	Barre	$12,247	78	$3.0M
Vermont Humanities Council	Montpelier	$10,000	66	$1.0M
Building Bright Futures	Williston	$36,536	60	$3.1M
The University of Vermont Medical Center	Burlington	$50,000	49	$9.1M
Vt Association for the Education of	Montpelier	$9,467	49	$1.4M
Vermont Association of Conservation	Waitsfield	$11,044	48	$1.5M
Miles for Migraine	Jericho	$14,746	41	$1.8M
Watersheds United Vermont Inc	Montpelier	$29,785	41	$5.2M
New England Rural Health Association	Barre	$72,061	39	$4.7M
Rutland Hospital Inc	Rutland	$26,141	37	$3.8M
Vermont Low Income Trust for	Montpelier	$90,000	37	$5.8M
Institute for Sustainable Communities	Montpelier	$75,000	35	$7.0M
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation	Winooski	$147,597	34	$11.4M
American Academy of Pediatrics-Vt Chapter	Williamstown	$10,000	34	$1.2M
Elevate Youth Services Inc	Barre	$39,479	33	$9.8M
White Swan Foundation Inc	Richmond	$10,000	33	$486K
United Way of Addison County Inc	Middlebury	$12,812	32	$3.5M
Champlain Housing Trust	Burlington	$35,917	30	$2.9M
Northeast Organic Farming	Richmond	$12,000	28	$593K
Vermont Public Health	Burlington	$28,567	25	$2.9M
Mentor Vermont Inc	Burlington	$22,766	25	$3.2M
J Warren and Lois Mcclure Foundation	Middlebury	$25,000	24	$3.1M
Chittenden Community Television	Burlington	$45,000	23	$955K
Council on Aging for Southeastern	Springfield	$8,500	21	$291K
Coming Clean Inc	Brattleboro	$13,527	20	$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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