· Private foundation
Dickinson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOLF GIVES INC | $300,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC | $100,000 |
| AMERICA MEDITATING INC | $35,000 |
| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC | $25,000 |
| NOTICEABILITY INC | $20,000 |
| FUEL - FOUNDATION FOR UNDERWAY EXPERIMENTAL LEARNING INC | $20,000 |
| GREAT HARBOR ASSOCIATION INC | $20,000 |
| THE WILLOW SCHOOL INC | $11,000 |
| YOUR KIDS OUR KIDS INC | $10,000 |
| MCC THEATER - MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| PETERS VALLEY CRAFT CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| HARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $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 (FY22–23, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $511k 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
- KSKENT SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $555k · revenue +21%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC7× · 2017–2024 · $393k · revenue +206%
- NINoticeAbility Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF AMATEUR GOLF FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $200k
- MHMORGAN HOFFMANN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -48%
- FOFRIENDS OF PHILIP'S NEWARK INCone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +3%
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 martha's vineyard agricultural society supports a resilient and sustainable agricultural community on martha's vineyard. we do this by:- offering services, education, marketing, and technical support for farmers and farmworkers on the…
The martha's vineyard shellfish group, a non-profit consortium of the shellfish departments of six island towns, provides shellfish propagation services to increase the availability of juvenile commercially valuable molluscan shellfish…
The martha's vineyard community foundation, inc., successor to the permanent endowment fund for martha's vineyard, the island's community foundation, puts charitable contributions to work for the people of martha's vineyard by making…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To do all things related to creating a gathering place for people from all walks of life for educational offerings including, but not limited to, discussions, workshops, silent retreats, and the arts.
To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
Expand philanthropy on Marthas Vineyard and support its nonprofit organizations through capacity building and advocacy.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To provide a supportive environment for dance development while engaging all ages and diverse cultural populations of martha's vinyard through sustained community outreach and educational engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morgan Hoffmann Foundation. 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 37 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 1% 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 60 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 KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds NoticeAbility Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN HOFFMANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PHILIP'S NEWARK INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT HARBOR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOW SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUR KIDS OUR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Stanton Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Pearson-Rappaport Foundation · Beagary Charitable Trust · Hoerle Foundation Inc · Justin & Genevieve Wyner Trust · Glff Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Dickinson Family 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.
- Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Waldorf School — 1% of income from government
- Williams College — 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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