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Cape Cod Blue Economy Foundation Inc

The blue economy project is a regional iniative to promote and sustain a maritime-focused economy on cape cod, martha's vinyard and nantucket and southern plymouth county.

$446k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $388k
$67,516
Median grant
1
States reached
$28k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARNSTABLE COUNTY COMMISSION$135,084
CAPE COD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC$135,084
LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEV CORP$67,516
COUNTY OF DUKES COUNTY$50,341
NANTUCKET COUNTY COMMISSIONERS$32,954
CAPE COD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$25,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NANTUCKET COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: $33k → 6%BARNSTABLE COUNTY COMMISSION: $135k → 8%COUNTY OF DUKES COUNTY: $50k → 8%CAPE COD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $135k → 8%CAPE COD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $25k → 8%LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEV CORP: $68k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
03the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2018–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2018 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 6 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
1/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARNSTABLE COUNTY: $135,084 · OtherBARNSTABLE COUNTYCAPE COD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $135,084 · OtherCAPE COD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INCDUKES COUNTY REGIONAL HOUSING: $50,341 · OtherDUKES COUNTY REGIONAL HOUSINGNANTUCKET COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: $32,954 · OtherNANTUCKET COUNTY COMMISSIONERSCAPE COD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $25,000 · OtherCAPE COD CHAMBER OF COMMERCELOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION: $67,516 · Housing & ShelterLOWER CAPE COD CO…
Other$378,463Housing & Shelter$67,516

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAPE COD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $135,084 over 1y, 32% of budgetLOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION: $67,516 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCAPE COD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cape Cod Blue Economy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cape Cod Blue Economy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce: 37% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Cape Cod Blue Economy Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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