· Private foundation
Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of CECELIA JOYCE AND SEWARD JOHNSON FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $209k
- $250k+1 grant · $454k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET | $454,400 |
| KEY WEST LITERARY SOCIETY | $33,000 |
| THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC | $30,000 |
| KEY WEST LITERARY SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $21,000 |
| SAKYONG POTRANG | $15,000 |
| HOPEWELL VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| SCREENWRITERS COLONY | $10,000 |
| EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER CENTER | $10,000 |
| GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE | $10,000 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| TYPE MEDIA CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MCCARTER THEATRE CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +40% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- AAARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC8× · 2018–2025 · $572k · revenue +40%
- TWTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC8× · 2018–2025 · $304k · revenue +48%
- FSFORMAN SCHOOL INC6× · 2018–2023 · $300k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- KIKAARSBAAM INTL DANCE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $500k
- NDNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $61k · revenue -42%
- RERepresentUs Education Fundone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -42%
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.
Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…
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…
Rockaway film festival presents cinema and other arts at the coastal edge of new york city, joining artists and audiences for unique collective experiences.
To enrich, educate, and entertain the community through film and art.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The Actors Company Theatre is dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit, with a focus on creating theatre from its essence: the text and the actor's ability to bring it to life. Over the past eighteen…
A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire
Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
Utah film center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.
Long wharf theatre is dedicated to producing boundary-breaking theatre with and for its many, kaleidoscopic communities. our vision is theatre for everyone.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parity Productions 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 33 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) — 3% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 54 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 ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds FORMAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC ↗
- Who funds SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC ↗
- Who funds EUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SCREENWRITERS COLONY INC DBA ALMANACK SCREENWRITERS ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARITY PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET FILM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
- Who funds COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KEY WEST PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Ohu Gift Foundation ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 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: The Atlantic Foundation · The India Blake Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · The Hale Family Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Clara Foundation Inc · Charles Hale & Kaaren Hale Family Foundation · The George & Marie Chabot Charitable Foundation · Meyer & Jean Steinberg Family Foundation Inc · Gilbert Verney 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 Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
- Kingdom County Productions Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rowan University Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 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.
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