How much did Cape & Coast Bank Foundation grant in FY2025?

Arts & Culture$117kHousing & Shelter$116kHuman Services$106kHealth$82kPhilanthropy$78kEducation$58kFood & Nutrition$18kCommunity Improvement$17kYouth Development$14kOther$356k

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $101k
$10k–50k5 grants · $53k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Housing Assistance Corporation	$12,500
Belonging to Each Other Inc	$10,000
Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod	$10,000
Amplify POC Cape Cod	$10,000
Heritage Museums & Gardens	$10,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cape Cod & The Islands	$6,250
YMCA Cape Cod	$6,250
Helping Our Women	$6,250
Sharing Kindness Inc	$5,250
Cape Cod Times Neighbors Fund	$5,000
Cape Kid Meals	$5,000
Champ Homes	$5,000
Falmouth Housing Trust	$5,000
Community Health Center of Cape Cod	$5,000
Cape Cod Village Center for Developmental Disabilities	$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$773k · 36 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$773k

$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+15%

Still filing today

83%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

HA
HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +107%
CC
COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +91%
CH
CHAMP HOMES INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +13%

Funded once

CC
CAPE COD BLUE ECONOMY FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -84%
TF
THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +10%
WI
weTHRIVE INC
one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands Inc

Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…

Community Improvement

Cape Cod Village Inc

Creating housing for adults on the autism spectrum

Housing & Shelter

Lower Cape Communications Inc

To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts

Arts & Culture

Cape and Islands United Way Inc

The mission of the cape and islands united way inc is to increase the organized capacity for people on cape cod and the islands to care for one another and to improve the human condition of the region.

Philanthropy

Ccyp Inc

CCYP shapes the Cape by creating opportunities for our region's workforce & aspiring leaders to connect, engage, advance, and lead.

Employment

The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts Inc

To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod

Environment

Cape Cod Community Television Corp

Provide community access cablecasting broadcasts

Arts & Culture

Cape Cod Economic Development Council Inc

Sustain, support and stimulate existing cape cod businesses; increase employment opportunities by attracting desirable businesses to cape cod; foster and promote communication between the community, local government, and the business…

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Cape Counseling Services

To partner with individuals, families and the community to provide recovery-focused, trauma-informed, integrated primary and behavioral healthcare and to promote wellness, resiliency and hope for positive change.

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Cape Cod Writers' Center Inc

Assist writers to develop their writing skills.

Arts & Culture

Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.

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Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce

Cape cod chamber of commerce advocates on behalf of business to strenghten and promote regional economic vitality while addressing related cultural, environmental & community concerns.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Center of Cape Cod and the most unlike its peers is Fair Project Inc Attny Craig Rockwood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/69

the rest of the field

10%

172/1,734

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

64/67

Grantees still filing

43/67

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$403,500Arts & Culture$117,000Housing & Shelter$116,000Human Services$105,750Health$81,750Philanthropy$78,000Education$57,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cape Cod Foundation IncMA106.9× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Cape & Coast Bank Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

22get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

9rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines