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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.

$189k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$463kHuman Services$292kHousing & Shelter$208kHealth$199kFood & Nutrition$170kEnvironment$156kReligion$143kEducation$129kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k45 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YMCA OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD$10,000
COUDERT INSTITUTE$10,000
MV AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FEATHERSTONE$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE$2,500
MV COMMUNITY SERVICES$2,500
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$2,500
MV HEBREW CENTER$2,460
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $5k → 6%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $1k → 17%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 8%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 8%MV COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER OF LIVING: $200 → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER OF LIVING: $200 → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER OF LIVING: $200 → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER OF LIVING: $200 → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER OF LIVING: $200 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NY
MA
WY
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 115 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
60

Total granted

$2.0M
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+46%

Still filing today

58%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IH
    ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $100k · revenue +248%
  • YO
    YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +418%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
    5× · 2017–2022 · $83k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • NH
    NAVIGATOR HOMES OF MV
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • SHELBURNE FARMSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +50%
  • BS
    BETH SHOLOM
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
The Pierpont Morgan Library

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.

Education
3
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

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…

Environment
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
5
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
6
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
7
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

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.

Arts & Culture
8
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
9
Bard College

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.

Education
10
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
11
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Philadelphia Museum of Art

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delray Beach Playhouse Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/99
Grantees still filing
71/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL WIDOWERS ORGANIZATION INC: $181,980 · OtherNATIONAL WIDOWERS ORGANIZATION INCFARM BASED EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $110,000 · OtherFARM BASED EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONMARTHA'S VINEYARD NONPROFIT COLLABORATIVE: $105,445 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD NONPROFIT COLLABORATIVENAVIGATOR HOMES OF MV: $100,000 · OtherNAVIGATOR HOMES OF MVMV FILM SOCIETY: $89,000 · OtherMV FILM SOCIETYCOUDERT INSTITUTE: $55,942 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC: $50,000 · OtherMV YOUTH INC: $71,032 · Other+116 more: $573,762 · Other+116 moreTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $133,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN…THE YARD INC: $65,750 · Arts & CultureTHE YARD INCPALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC: $21,500 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH D…+20 more: $29,777 · Arts & Culture+20 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $82,875 · EnvironmentVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC: $31,000 · EnvironmentPOLLY HILL ARBORETUM INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $12,500 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $6,800 · Environment+2 more: $352 · EnvironmentYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $84,050 · Recreation & SportsMARTHA'S VINEYARD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC: $23,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $18,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $36,525 · EducationMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV: $20,500 · EducationTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $11,419 · EducationLIVE LIKE BLAINE FOUNDATION: $10,100 · EducationThe Browning School: $10,060 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $10,000 · EducationWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: $5,000 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 · EducationLiteracy Partners Inc: $5,000 · Education+5 more: $9,500 · EducationISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $900 · Housing & ShelterSMITH FARM LTD: $60,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $8,500 · HealthLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $5,000 · HealthVineyard House Inc: $3,700 · Health+1 more: $1,350 · Health
Other$1,337,161Arts & Culture$250,027Environment$163,527Recreation & Sports$130,050Education$123,104Housing & Shelter$100,900Health$78,550

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $133,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION: $100,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $84,050 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $82,875 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMV YOUTH INC: $71,032 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE YARD INC: $65,750 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSMITH FARM LTD: $60,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Donors Collaborative Inc: $36,617 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $36,525 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRhythm of Life Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetVINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPOLLY HILL ARBORETUM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC: $23,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC: $21,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV: $20,500 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD: $17,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $17,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $11,419 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE LIKE BLAINE FOUNDATION: $10,100 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetThe Browning School: $10,060 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC: $7,350 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $6,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UP-ISLAND COUNCIL ON AGING: $6,200 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $6,050 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: $4,250 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPalm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews Inc: $4,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSHIFTING GEARS UNITED INC: $4,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILMARK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetChilmark Volunteer Firemans Assn Inc: $4,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetVineyard House Inc: $3,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDANIEL'S MUSIC FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST TISBURY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $3,250 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMEDIA ART XPLORATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC: $2,185 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation IncMA36.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 260%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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