· Private foundation
Cape Branch Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP | $25,000 |
| HAMPTON'S COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $20,000 |
| ST ANN'S SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CHRIST MEMORIAL CHAPEL | $15,000 |
| LIFECAMP | $15,000 |
| LONGHOUSE RESERVE | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| ARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF JUPITER ISLAND | $10,000 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $7,200 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $5,000 |
| EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,000 |
| HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +41% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC2× · 2019–2020 · $186k · revenue +2%- IFINTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE LONDON LIBRARY INC3× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +263%
- LCLIFE CAMP INC3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- TWTHE WILLOW SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +112%
- TFTHE FIELD FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -71%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +74%
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.
To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
At the chestnut hill school, our mission to educate children is deeply rooted in a commitment to academic excellence, diversity, and community. we engage, challenge and support children as they develop the skills and confidence to achieve…
The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The harbor school embraces the uniqueness of each young child and teaches students to celebrate this in themselves and in each other. our holistic approach nurtures confident, kind, and capable learners.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
See schedule oto operate as a nonpublic school for grades pre-kindergarten through eighth. its' mission is to nurture each child's love of learning by engaging their intrinsic curiosity in nature, one another, play, and creative…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Conservation Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOW SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE LONDON LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIELD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST 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: George L Ohrstrom Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Branch 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.
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% 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.
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