· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| UNITED NATIONS GREATER BOSTON | $350 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTY UNION | $350 |
| Individual grant recipient | $228 |
| SPAULDING REHABILITATION | $222 |
| ASSOCIATION OF STATE FLOODPLAIN MANAGERS | $180 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM | $150 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE | $150 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM CENTER | $130 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FDN | $129 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +213%
Funded once
- MSMGH SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $1k
- MPMV PRESERVATION TRUSTone grant, 2019 · $1k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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.
How this is measured
78 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. 78 of the 166 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 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Edgartown Yacht Club Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cutler Stephens Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cutler Stephens Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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