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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 93-3920817

Four Pines Fund Inc

A private foundation in Burlington, VT. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 16 grants and $2.8 million paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Aug 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

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Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

3 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $2,751,313

    Grants listed
    16
    Assets, end of year
    $274,760

  • Tax year 2024

    $1,708,194

    Grants listed
    13
    Assets, end of year
    $3,326,062

  • Tax year 2023

    $0

    Grants listed
    0
    Assets, end of year
    $1,014,546

Grants paid in 2025

16 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care IncMontpelier, VT

    To support the vermont consultation & psychiatry access program

    $437,796
  2. Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care IncMontpelier, VT

    To support suicide-care improvements in vermont emergency departments

    $409,780
  3. Now Matters Now IncBellevue, WA

    To support sustainability planning, program delivery, and outcome monitoring for peer support groups

    $350,000
  4. Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care IncMontpelier, VT

    To support independent provider training in evidence-based therapeutic models for suicide care

    $195,437
  5. Education Development Center IncWaltham, MA

    To support strategic planning to strengthen training for implementing evidence-based suicide care in health-care systems

    $187,500
  6. UMASS Chan Medical School Foundation IncWorcester, MA

    To support planning activities to advance national strategies for implementing evidence-based suicide care in emergency and crisis settings

    $166,667
  7. Education Development Center IncWaltham, MA

    To support dissemination of a support film for parents following a childs suicide attempt

    $159,000
  8. Pathways Vermont IncS Burlington, VT

    To support purchase of a learning management system and staffing of a training manager to strengthen peer support workforce

    $142,540
  9. Zero Overdose IncTillson, NY

    To support planning initiative to improve electronic health records for suicide care

    $126,890
  10. University of WashingtonSeattle, WA

    Planning grant to develop a specialty model providing rapid, evidence-based treatment and follow-up for individuals at risk of suicide

    $124,290
  11. Henry Ford Health IncDetroit, MI

    To support planning a research and implementation program advancing evidence-based suicide care in health and community systems

    $117,690
  12. Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care IncMontpelier, VT

    To pilot jaspr, a technology-based suicide-care intervention

    $113,511
  13. The University of Vermont FoundationBurlington, VT

    To support training medical and nursing students in evidence-based suicide care

    $76,212
  14. Spectrum Youth & Family Services IncBurlington, VT

    To support the riverstone counseling center serving high-risk youth

    $75,000
  15. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention IncNew York, NY

    To support the suicide research symposium convening researchers and practitioners

    $60,000
  16. Center for Health & Learning IncShelburne, VT

    To support summer convening of the vermont suicide prevention coalition

    $9,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Health5 grants $1,274,21467% of the total
  2. Mental health2 grants $186,89010% of the total
  3. Philanthropy and grantmaking1 grant $166,6679% of the total
  4. Human services1 grant $142,5407% of the total
  5. Jobs and employment1 grant $124,2907% of the total
  6. Education1 grant $9,000<1% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Vermont8 grants $1,459,276
  2. Massachusetts3 grants $513,167
  3. Washington2 grants $474,290
  4. New York2 grants $186,890
  5. Michigan1 grant $117,690

Officers, directors and trustees

3 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Debra L GottesmanDIR.,PRES. Hours 15Pay $0
  • William L GottesmanDIR., TREAS. Hours 8Pay $0
  • Clara G HageDIR., SECY. Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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