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Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844

Brattleboro, VT · EIN 46-7372122. Reported 212 grants totalling $319,808 to 75 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$500median grant
$319,808granted, 2021-2024
75organizations funded
89%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,141,972assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844 did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $500. Half of everything it gave fell between $200 and $750; the smallest was $40 and the largest $25,934. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
163 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
37 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Dummerston Congregational ChurchDummerston, VT$37,575442024
Detroit Black Community Food Sovereignty NetworkDetroit, MI$25,934112024
Village Micro FundAtlanta, GA$25,934112024
Detroit Black Community Food Security NeDetroit, MI$24,675112023
Land Loss Prevention ProjectDurham, NC$24,675112023
Garden Path Elder LivingBrattleboro, VT$22,500332024
Vermont Community Foundation Attn Vt Flood Response & Recovery FdMiddlebury, VT$17,500222024
Black Sustainability IncAtlanta, GA$15,375112022
Whyhunger Attn Joy CurtinNew York, NY$15,375112022
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital - Dev Off Office of DevelopmentBrattleboro, VT$8,200442024
Northeast Wilderness TrustMontpelier, VT$5,500332024
Bradley HouseBrattleboro, VT$5,300112021
Vermont Food Bank Director of DevelopmentBarre, VT$5,000332024
West Brookfield Village TrustWest Brookfield, VT$4,250442024
United Way of Windham County One Holstein Place Ste 313Brattleboro, VT$4,200442024
Green Mountain ClubWaterbury Center, VT$4,000332024
Wellesley College Office for ResourcesWellesley, MA$4,000442024
Chandler Center for the ArtsRandolph, VT$2,750332024
Windmill Hill Pinnacle AssociationSaxtons River, VT$2,700332024
Childrens Literacy FoundationWaterbury Center, VT$2,500332024
Green Mountain CampDummerston, VT$2,500442024
Haverford College Advancement Services Founders 308Haverford, PA$2,500332024
Groundworks CollaborativeBrattleboro, VT$2,450332023
Retreat FarmBrattleboro, VT$2,450442024
Boys and Girls Club of BrattleboroBrattleboro, VT$2,400442024
Friends of Brooks Memorial Library Attention TreasurerBrattleboro, VT$2,100332024
Winston Prouty Center for Child & Family DevelopmentBrattleboro, VT$2,000442024
Youth ServicesBrattleboro, VT$2,000442024
Brattleboro Museum and Art CenterBrattleboro, VT$1,900442024
Kent Place SchoolSummit, NJ$1,900442024
Brattleboro Area Affordable HousingBrattleboro, VT$1,800442024
Brattleboro Senior MealsBrattleboro, VT$1,750442024
Brattleboro Area Hospice Attn Debbie BunkerBrattleboro, VT$1,700442024
Green Mountain ConservancyWest Dummerston, VT$1,700332024
Planned Parenthood of Northern NeColchester, VT$1,700442024
Town of DummerstonWest Dummerston, VT$1,700332023
Randolph Area Food ShelfRandolph, VT$1,500222024
Vermont Land TrustMontpelier, VT$1,500332024
Council on Aging for Se VtSpringfield, VT$1,450442024
Dummerston Cares-Emergency Fuel Fund C/O Jean MomanyWest Dummerston, VT$1,400442024
Reading Is Fundamental Attn Development DeptWashington, DC$1,300442024
Brookfield Community PartnershipBrookfield, VT$1,050442024
Brookfield Historical SocietyBrookfield, VT$1,000332024
Central Vermont Council on AgingBarre, VT$1,000222024
Groundworks Collaborative Attn Becky BestBrattleboro, VT$1,000112024
Vermont Center for EcostudiesNorwich, VT$1,000222023
North Branch Nature CenterMontpelier, VT$950332024
Vermont Institute of Natural Science Nature CenterQuechee, VT$950332024
Windham County Humane SocietyBrattleboro, VT$900442024
Vt Public Interest Research & EducationMontpelier, VT$850442024
Christ Congregational ChurchPrinceton, NJ$800442024
Landmark CollegePutney, VT$800442024
Vermont Youth Conservation CorpsRichmond, VT$800442024
Vermont Historical SocietyBarre, VT$750442024
Vermont Humanities CouncilMontpelier, VT$750112024
American Red Cross of VermontBurlington, VT$700332024
Central Vermont Humane SocietyMontpelier, VT$700332024
Lydia Taft Pratt Library Dummerston Recreation Board FundWest Dummerston, VT$700112024
Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericaNew York, NY$675332023
Golden Huggs RescueWaitsfield, VT$600112024
Vermont Food BankBarre, VT$550112021
Center for Woodlands EducationCorinth, VT$500112024
Friends of the Winooski RiverMonpelier, VT$500222024
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Office of Gift PlanningNew York, NY$500112024
The Pingry Fund Office of Institutional AdvancementBasking Ridge, NJ$500112023
The Pingry School Office of Institutional AdvancementBasking Ridge, NJ$500112024
Waterman FundEast Corinth, VT$500112024
Dummerston Historical SocietyBrattleboro, VT$400442024
Friends of Music at GuilfordBrattleboro, VT$400442024
Golden Hugs RescueWaitsfield, VT$400222023
Home at LastBrattleboro, VT$400112021
Windham Union Association C/O First Congregational Church UccWest Brattleboro, VT$400442024
Lupus Foundation of AmericaWashington, DC$340442024
AIDS Project of Southern VermontBrattleboro, VT$200442024
Xxxamerican Red CrossBurlington, VT$100112021

56 of 75 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 89%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 90 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Environment
23 grants
Education
17 grants
Arts & Culture
15 grants
Food & Nutrition
7 grants
Animal Welfare
6 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202138$26,465$200
202254$89,725$500
202359$99,550$500
202461$104,068$500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 55% of this one's giving went to organizations in Vermont. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Vermont
$175K
Michigan
$51K
Georgia
$41K
North Carolina
$25K
New York
$17K
Massachusetts
$4K
New Jersey
$4K
Pennsylvania
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal 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 Foundation24 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund23 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc20 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program18 shared recipientsBen & Jerry's Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsNational Life Group Charitable13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Vermont.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Sorg-Vogt Charitable Foundation Trust 3844's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: P O Box 1280, Brattleboro, VT, 05302. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 46-7372122 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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