· Private foundation
Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of GRETCHEN V & SAMUEL M FELDMAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL WIDOWERS ORGANIZATION INC | $30,000 |
| MV YOUTH | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD NONPROFIT COLLABORATIVE | $25,000 |
| FARM BASED EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| COUDERT INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $10,000 |
| MV AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FEATHERSTONE | $3,000 |
| MV COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,500 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE | $2,500 |
| MV HEBREW CENTER | $2,460 |
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 (FY17–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% 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.
115 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 66 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- IHISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +248%
- YOYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +418%
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS5× · 2017–2022 · $83k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- NHNAVIGATOR HOMES OF MVone grant, 2023 · $100k
SHELBURNE FARMSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +257%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
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…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
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…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The museum's mission is to celebrate maine's role in american art. to accomplish that mission the museum provides an extensive offering of collections, exhibitions, education and retail services to the general public.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delray Beach Playhouse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Second Chance Animal Rescue 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 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 180 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 THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE YARD INC ↗
- Who funds SMITH FARM LTD ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Martha's Vineyard Donors Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Rhythm of Life Inc ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds POLLY HILL ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE ↗
- Who funds LIVE LIKE BLAINE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · South Mountain Company Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Swartz Foundation Trust · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Henry & Anne Garfinkle Foundation Inc · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Glff 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 Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- African Aquatic Conservation Fund Inc — 55% of income from government
- Marthas Vineyard Center for Living Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Yard Inc — 28% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- The American Visionary Art Museum Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% 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 Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Museum of Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 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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