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Cutler Stephens Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VINEYARD TRUST | $816 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $690 |
| PIER 5 ASSOC | $500 |
| WWWSBSCHOOLORG | $459 |
| ENVIR BUSINESS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK | $375 |
| Individual grant recipient | $355 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTY UNION | $350 |
| UNITED NATIONS GREATER BOSTON | $350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $228 |
| SPAULDING REHABILITATION | $222 |
| ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS | $180 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE | $150 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM | $150 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM CENTER | $130 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FDN | $129 |
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, $889) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
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.
79 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down; 17 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SMSAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC7× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +89%
- SMSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +311%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC4× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +206%
Funded once
- MSMGH SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $1k
- MPMV PRESERVATION TRUSTone grant, 2019 · $1k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Harbor Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Biochemical Research Foundation 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 43 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 166 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 SAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIER 5 ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Angels Helping Animals Worldwide Inc ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GERMAN SCHOOL BROOKLYN ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Edgartown Yacht Club Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW 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.
Open a dossier: Hoerle Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · T Kimball Brooker Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Giordano Foundation Inc · Healey Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank 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 Cutler Stephens Foundation 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 West End Museum Incorporated — 65% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 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.