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Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc
Our mission is to strengthen nantucket now and for future generations through informed philanthropy and community leadership.
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 82 grants below total $4,088,506 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,391,704 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $303,198 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 $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $529k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| North Andover Historical Society | $528,500 |
| Nantucket Community Service Inc | $248,458 |
| Nantucket Interfaith CouncilNFFRA | $191,686 |
| Nantucket Boys & Girls Club | $164,915 |
| Fairwinds - Nantucket's Counseling Center Inc | $163,039 |
| North Parish Church | $160,000 |
| Our House | $155,500 |
| Montessori Children's House of Nantucket | $122,566 |
| A Safe Place Inc | $115,277 |
| Nantucket Performing Arts Center | $100,000 |
| Nantucket Community School | $95,708 |
| Nantucket Center for Elder Affairs | $85,000 |
| Health Imperatives | $85,000 |
| Nantucket Cottage Hospital | $83,500 |
| Housing Nantucket | $76,436 |
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, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 36% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
104 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 15 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $456k 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
- NPNHA PROPERTIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +474%
North Andover Historical Society7× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +19% · 47% of their budget- HIHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +84%
Funded once
- HFHOLIDAYS FOR HEROES INCone grant, 2017 · $194k · 38% of their budget
- BHBethesda Hospital Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +46%
- TNTHE NANTUCKET PROJECT ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $68k · revenue +342%
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The purpose of the corporation is to act as a not-for-profit organization with a primary mission of promoting the health of nantucket islands harbor and its marine ecosystem. the corporation will work with the nantucket department of…
Provide low income elderly housing
The mission of the nantucket island chamber of commerce is promoting the interests and viability of its nearly 700 members. the members are comprised of businesses, non-profit organizartions, individuals, and the island business community…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…
The organization promotes high professional standards and provides governance education to boards of directors and senior corporate management.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The acquisition of objects of major historic and/or artistic importance to nantucket and its peoples and to donate such objects to the nantucket historical association for public display in its museums and historical properties.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Madaket Land Trust. 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 36 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% 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.
159 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. 159 of the 195 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 NHA PROPERTIES INC ↗
- Who funds North Andover Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRWINDS-NANTUCKET'S COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NANTUCKET EDUCATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds ADDICTION SOLUTIONS OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds SMALL FRIENDS ON NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A SAFE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds Buy A Brick Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GOSNOLD INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAYS FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds PALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE OF NANTUCKET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION 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.
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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 Community Foundation for Nantucket 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.
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- Agespan Inc — 57% of income from government
- A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
- Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- New Life Empowerment Services Inc — 10% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Phoenix Education Network Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Community Music Center — 1% of income from government
- Immigrant City Archives — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Kingdom County Productions Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Book Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Sharing Kindness Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Adolescent Resource and Education Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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.