· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $534,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $653,951 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $119,751 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $498k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION INC | $40,000 |
| HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL | $37,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $31,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CAPE | $27,500 |
| BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INNOVATORS | $25,000 |
| INDEPENDENCE HOUSE | $25,000 |
| A BABY CENTER | $24,600 |
| NANTUCKET INTERFAITH COUNCIL | $22,500 |
| THE FAMILY PANTRY | $22,500 |
| CAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE | $22,500 |
| HEALTH IMPERATIVES | $19,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD | $18,750 |
| ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE | $17,500 |
| WE CAN | $17,500 |
| FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER | $17,100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $592k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TFTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP8× · 2017–2024 · $204k · revenue +91%
- HPHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $198k · revenue +604%
- IHINDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $179k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- WCWE CAN & AMPLIFY POCone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CCCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE RECOVERY PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $20k
- YFYARMOUTH FOOD PANTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +104%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
Creating housing for adults on the autism spectrum
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.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
Elder services of cape cod and the islands, inc. provides comprehensive community-based services to elders throughout cape cod and the islands. major services include nutrition, senior aides, and various home care services.
Committed to the healthy development,education,childcare,respectful eldercare, and to provide support & empowerment of all families of southeastern massachusetts, cape cod and the islands
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
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.
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…
CCYP shapes the Cape by creating opportunities for our region's workforce & aspiring leaders to connect, engage, advance, and lead.
Cape cod healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare services on cape cod, coordinates and delivers the highest quality, accessible health services which enhance the health of all cape cod residents and visitors. the mission of cape cod…
The organization is responsible for overseeing all publicly funded vocational education and training programs for the cape cod, martha's vineyard, and nantucket areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp and the most unlike its peers is Behavioral Health Innovators Inc. 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 32 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
47 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. 47 of the 76 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WE CAN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INNOVATORS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds CAPE KID MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GOSNOLD INC ↗
- Who funds CALMER CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SASSAFRAS EARTH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSTRONG INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation
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 and Islands United Way Inc 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.
- Independence House Inc — 85% of income from government
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- Alzheimer's Family Caregiver Support Center Inc — 57% of income from government
- Duffy Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Cape Cod Children's Place Inc — 47% of income from government
- Marthas Vineyard Center for Living Inc — 40% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
- Outer Cape Health Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Helping Our Women Inc — 14% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc — 9% of income from government
- Children's Discovery Museum of Cape Cod Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's — 5% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sassafras Earth Education Inc — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% of income from government
- We Can Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
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.