Watersheds United Vermont Inc
Montpelier, VT · EIN 83-1625362. Reported 86 grants totalling $5,150,651 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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. For Watersheds United Vermont Inc, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C32) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 13% 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. 82% 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 $29,785. Half of what it reported fell between $13,750 and $78,690; the smallest was $2,212 and the largest $487,131. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Winooski River Incorporated | Montpelier, VT | $665,405 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memphremagog Watershed Association | Newport, VT | $658,338 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc | Greenfield, MA | $597,728 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| White River Partnership Inc | South Royalton, VT | $523,473 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lewis Creek Water Shed Association | Hinesburg, VT | $357,779 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Northern Lake Champlain Inc | St Albans, VT | $230,246 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Missiquoi River Basin Association Inc | East Berkshire, VT | $195,402 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trout Unlimited | Arlington, VA | $183,501 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Vermont Land Trust Inc | Montpelier, VT | $167,219 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ottauquechee Natural Resources | White River Junction, VT | $161,053 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Mad River | Waitsfield, VT | $138,990 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Redstart Forestry Inc | Bradford, VT | $124,131 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chittenden Regional Planning Comm | Winooski, VT | $109,665 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc | Montpelier, VT | $106,170 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Farm & Wilderness Foundation Inc | Plymouth, VT | $102,762 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Caledonia County Natural Resources | Winooski, VT | $89,375 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Addison County River Watch Collaborative Inc | New Haven, VT | $75,133 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lamoille County Conservation Dist | Morrisville, VT | $66,849 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lake Dunmore Fern Lake Association | Salisbury, VT | $65,272 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Windham County Nrcd | Brattleboro, VT | $63,744 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $63,092 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lamoille County Planning Commission | Morrisville, VT | $55,639 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Intervale Center Inc | Burlington, VT | $52,360 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vermont River Conservancy Inc | Montpelier, VT | $39,039 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Northwoods Stewardship Center | E Charleston, VT | $37,810 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Federation of Vermont Lakes and Ponds | Hinesburg, VT | $27,450 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Franklin Watershed Committee Inc | Franklin, VT | $22,182 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Town of Wallingford | Wallingford, VT | $20,006 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Essex County Nrcd | Guildhall, VT | $18,948 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Passumpsic Valley Land Trust | St Johnsbury, VT | $18,866 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lake Champlain Committee Inc | Burlington, VT | $15,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connecticut River Watershed Farmers Alliance Inc | Rochester, VT | $13,950 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Newbury | Newbury, VT | $13,950 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Shelburne | Shelburne, VT | $13,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Orleans County Nrcd | Newport, VT | $13,185 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Hero Land Trust Inc | South Hero, VT | $12,539 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sustainable Woodstock Inc | Woodstock, VT | $11,714 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lake George Association Inc | Lake George, NY | $7,024 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | Burlington, VT | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greensboro Association | Barre, VT | $2,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mount Acutney Regional Commission | Ascutney, VT | $2,212 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
21 of 41 (51%) 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 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.
- Memphremagog Watershed Association
CLEAN WATER DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION - Connecticut River Conservancy
DAM REMOVAL WATERSHED PLANNING - Lewis Creek Association
WATERSHED PLANNING BUFFER PLANTING - Windham County Nrcd
CLEAN WATER DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 11 | $350,271 | $14,438 |
| 2022 | 17 | $762,484 | $25,309 |
| 2023 | 24 | $1,623,985 | $38,468 |
| 2024 | 34 | $2,413,911 | $42,052 |
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
83% 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 $29,785 -- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Watersheds United Vermont Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 33 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 379 Elm Street, Montpelier, VT, 05602.
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