· Private foundation
Elizabeth Thayer & E Geoffrey Verney Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Elizabeth Thayer & E Geoffrey Verney Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Nantucket Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Elizabeth Thayer & E Geoffrey Verney Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $28k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheshire Land Preservation Fund | $5,000 |
| Artists Association of Nantucket | $2,750 |
| Nantucket Historical Association | $2,500 |
| Nantucket Community Sailing | $2,500 |
| Community Foundation for Nantucket | $2,005 |
| Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Association Inc | $2,000 |
| Nantucket Community Music Center | $1,500 |
| Boca Grande Health Clinic Foundation Inc | $1,000 |
| Nantucket Arts Council | $1,000 |
| Our Sisters' School | $1,000 |
| Friends of Boca Grande Community Center | $750 |
| Nantucket Yacht Club Foundation | $500 |
| Nantucket Boys & Girls Club | $500 |
| Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound | $500 |
| Palliative & Supportive Care of Nantucket Foundation | $500 |
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 (FY17–17, $750) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
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 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…
Protect nantucket's natural world and rural character by holding and enforcing conservation restrictions, commissioning scientific research, monitoring development proposals, engaging in legal proceedings to protect natural resources, and…
Research and publication of Sankaty Head area of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
To educate and encourage property owners as to what is possible to preserve and protect the historical elements of their properties and to raise awareness of the community about the value of and need for historic architectural preservation.
Aipc works to preserve and improve the environment, economy and quality of life on aquidneck island to ensure that the island remains a great place to live, work, play and thrive.
Promote the awareness and appreciation of lightship baskets and their makers, by educating and engaging the public about the complexity of this art form unique to nantucket. exhibiting historic and contemporary baskets.
To generate private support for public education on nantucket, to foster private and public partnerships that benefit the children of nantucket public schools, and to honor excellence in teaching and learning.
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…
Foster the creation and appreciation of the fine arts by holding art exhibitions; conducting educational programs; acquiring and displaying a permanent collection of representational cape ann works of art; maintaining and preserving our…
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.
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Albert F Egan Jr & Dorothy H Egan F. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 30 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 Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
- Who funds The Island School Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHESHIRE LAND PRESERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY SAILING INC ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PALLIATIVE AND SUPPORTIVE CARE OF NANTUCKET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SHELLFISH ASSOCIATION 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: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Carverdelaney Families Foundation Inc · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Nancy Sayles Day Foundation · The George & Marie Chabot Charitable Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Gilbert Verney Foundation · The Hale Family Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Dillard Foundation Co Patrick Dillard · The Linda and Harvey Saligman Charitable 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 Elizabeth Thayer & E Geoffrey Verney 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.
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Community Music Center — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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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