· Public charity
Cape Cod Foundation Inc
The Cape Cod Foundation is a community foundation whose mission is to strengthen Cape Cod for current and future generations through thoughtful community leadership and strategic philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 176 grants below total $6,576,849 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,208,707 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,631,858 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $175k
- $10k–50k125 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Housing Assistance Corporation | $1,553,221 |
| Hopeful Outreach of Cape Cod Inc | $208,000 |
| Cape Cod Healthcare Foundation | $201,170 |
| Family Pantry of Cape Cod | $144,484 |
| Monomoy Community Services | $117,500 |
| YMCA Cape Cod | $111,318 |
| Osterville Village Library | $101,670 |
| WE CAN Corporation | $85,383 |
| Nauset Regional High School | $83,022 |
| Cape Kid Meals | $81,500 |
| Lower Cape Outreach Council Inc | $73,302 |
| The Cape Cod Theatre CompanyHarwich Junior Theatre | $70,818 |
| Falmouth Service Center | $68,465 |
| Homeless Prevention Council Inc | $65,416 |
| Dennis Conservation Land Trust | $65,250 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 3% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +17% for the ones you funded once.
202 repeat relationships — 129 still active in FY2025, 73 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- HAHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +132%
- GIGOSNOLD INC7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +24%
- CACAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +33%
Funded once
- AFADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INCone grant, 2024 · $230k · 73% of their budget
- WFWELLFLEET FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2024 · $102k · revenue 0%
- FOFRIENDS OF BASS RIVER INCone grant, 2023 · $98k · 32% of their budget
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 provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To establish and operate a maritime museum and visitor hospitality center near hyannis harbor, in hyannis, massachusetts, and to conduct such other activities and programs in furtherance of the foregoing purposes.
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…
Cape cod chamber of commerce advocates on behalf of business to strenghten and promote regional economic vitality while addressing related cultural, environmental & community concerns.
Tales of Cape Cod, Inc. is a distinguished non-profit organization committed to the preservation and dissemination of Cape Cod's unique historical narrative.
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
Preservation and conservation of open space in harwich, massachusetts
To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Center of Cape Cod and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Jonathan Bourne Public Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
289 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. 289 of the 355 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GOSNOLD INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WE CAN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC ↗
- Who funds DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE AND ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE KID MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds CALMER CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FALMOUTH DOGS A NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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 · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Seamens Long Point 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 Cod Foundation 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.
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
- Audible Local Ledger Inc — 97% of income from government
- Independence House Inc — 85% of income from government
- The Samaritans On Cape Cod — 82% of income from government
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- Community Connections Inc — 76% of income from government
- Cordial Eye Gallery and Artist Space Inc — 73% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% 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
- Amplify Poc Cape Cod Inc — 51% of income from government
- Cape Cod Children's Place Inc — 47% of income from government
- Latham Centers Inc — 39% of income from government
- Harbor Health Services Inc — 39% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Friends of Bass River Inc — 36% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc — 33% of income from government
- Fishing Partnership Health Plan Corporation — 31% of income from government
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- Child and Family Services Inc — 24% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
- Outer Cape Health Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- Ccyp Inc — 16% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Helping Our Women Inc — 14% of income from government
- Cape Cod Toy Library Inc — 13% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Cape Cod Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Love Live Local Inc — 9% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc — 9% of income from government
- Woods Hole Film Festival Inc — 7% 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
- The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod — 6% of income from government
- Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Payomet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Harwich Junior Theatre Inc — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Fisher College — 2% of income from government
- West Falmouth Library Inc — 2% of income from government
- 20 Summers Inc — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Falmouth Chorale Inc — 2% of income from government
- Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
- Amazing Grace of Cape Cod Inc — 1% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Wellfleet Preservation Hall Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Sharing Kindness Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Historic Highfield Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cape Cod Academy — 0% of income from government
- We Can Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Heroes in Transition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hyannis Public Library — 0% of income from government
- Family Table Collaborative Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cahoon Museum of American Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 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.