· Private foundation
Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SCREENWRITERS COLONY | $10,000 |
| HOPEWELL VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -37%
- RERepresentUs Education Fundone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -42%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE BROOKLYN WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Ohu Gift Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL VALLEY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cecelia Joyce and Seward Johnson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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