Massachusetts · Private foundation
Island Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 169
- Grants FY2024
- 154
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 141 to 154
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $58M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Island Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 143 | $2.0M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 154 | $2.4M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 153 | $2.4M | 10% |
| FY2021 | 152 | $2.3M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 141 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New England Aquarium Corporation | $378,000 | 5 | 0% |
| YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc | $291,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Save the Bay Inc | $276,500 | 5 | 3% |
| The Landing School of Boatbuilding & Design | $251,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Old Dartmouth Historical Society | $216,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Community Boating Center Inc | $196,850 | 5 | 6% |
| Safe Voices | $189,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Northstar Learning Centers Inc | $189,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Community Economic Development Center of Southeastern Mass | $172,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Young Men's Christian Association Southcoast Inc | $159,750 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 186 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Island Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 180 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation
How this is measured
About Island Foundation Inc
- How much does Island Foundation Inc give?
- Island Foundation Inc reported 169 grants totaling $2,079,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 141 and 154 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Island Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (21%), Arts & Culture (9%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Island Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: New England Aquarium Corporation ($378k), YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc ($292k), Save the Bay Inc ($277k).
- Does Island Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Island Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Island Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southcoast Community Foundation Inc, Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, The Carney Family Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Island Foundation Inc based?
- Island Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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