· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| CAPE COD SPEAKERS SERIES | $500 |
| INDEPENDENCE HOUSE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +62% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +91%
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC3× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +31%
- 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
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 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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 25 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry & Maggie Van Sciver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry & Maggie Van Sciver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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