· Private foundation
Harry & Maggie Van Sciver Foundation
Its FY2025 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: 87% of HARRY & MAGGIE VAN SCIVER FOUNDATION’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $6,050 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BROADWAY CARES EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS | $4,297 |
| CAPE COD ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| HERITAGE MUSEUM & GARDENS | $680 |
| INDEPENDENCE HOUSE | $500 |
| CAPE COD SPEAKERS SERIES | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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
- CCCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +91%
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC3× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +15%
- HMHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- GRGREGORY RICHARD GREENFIELD CHARITABone grant, 2024 · $159k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PENSILVANIAone grant, 2024 · $50k
- LCLINCOLN CENTER THEATER ANGELSone grant, 2022 · $2k
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 cape cod center for the arts fosters creativity, enriches lives, and nurtures learning by providing exceptional cultural and artistic experiences. with a focus on live theatre, cinematic arts, education, and horticulture, it thrives…
To enrich and further the cultural, educational and economic interests of our region through music and the arts by encouraging lifelong involvement with superior music and arts education to all residents of and visitors to cape cod.
Cape cod chamber of commerce advocates on behalf of business to strenghten and promote regional economic vitality while addressing related cultural, environmental & community concerns.
The academy of performing arts is an innovative theatrical venue for hands-on learning, creativity, and entertainment for the cape cod community.
The mission of the falmouth artists guild is to promote the visual arts for the cape cod community through educational opportunities and exhibitions for all.
To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
Professional and educational theater.
It is our mission to be the premiere organization for training, exhibiting, and promoting the arts on cape cod.
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ian's Friends Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 25 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 COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON'S TEMPLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IAN'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Speaker Series Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS OF CAPE AND ISLANDS 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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · The Sigel Family Foundation · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Harry & Maggie Van Sciver 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.
- Independence House Inc — 85% of income from government
- The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod — 6% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cape Cod Academy — 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Harry & Maggie Van Sciver Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Harry & Maggie Van Sciver Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.