· Private foundation
Dickinson Family 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC | $200,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST | $140,000 |
| HACKENSACK UMC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NOTICEABILITY INC | $60,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD OCEAN ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| AMERICA MEDITATING INC | $25,000 |
| GOLF GIVES INC | $25,000 |
| PETERS VALLEY CRAFT CENTER INC | $20,750 |
| ORKEESWA INC | $20,000 |
| GREAT HARBOR ASSOCIATION INC | $20,000 |
| ISLAND HOUSING TRUST | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| MV YOUTH INC | $10,000 |
| YOUR KIDS OUR KIDS INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $34k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KSKENT SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $555k · revenue +21%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC8× · 2017–2025 · $533k · revenue +213%
- YOYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +214%
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%
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 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 empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
To produce public, education, and governmental (peg) access programming for the residents and organizations of the six communities of the island of martha's vineyard. in addition, the organization allocates channel space and time to…
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 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.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
Wmvy's goal is to serve the communities of martha's vineyard and cape cod and to reflect the voice and spirit of those who live here, through the station's programming and personalities. mvy works hard to provide the community with…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
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 63 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 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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MORGAN HOFFMANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PETERS VALLEY SCHOOL OF CRAFT INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT HARBOR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PHILIP'S NEWARK INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUR KIDS OUR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEWARK MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLOW SCHOOL 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dickinson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dickinson Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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