· Private foundation
Island Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k60 grants · $151k
- $10k–50k107 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| YMCA SOUTHCOAST INC | $50,000 |
| THE LANDING SCHOOL OF BOATBUILDING AND DESIGN | $40,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MA | $30,000 |
| NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS | $30,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED INC | $25,000 |
| CENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES | $25,000 |
| SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS ABORTION FUND | $25,000 |
| POCASSET POKENOKET LANDTRUST INDIGENOUS PEOPLES NETWORK | $25,000 |
| NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD | $25,000 |
| PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS (PACE) INC | $25,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD LIGHT | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Island Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
163 repeat relationships — 132 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 11 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; $89k 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
NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $378k · revenue +108%- YOYWCA OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $292k · revenue +73%
SAVE THE BAY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $277k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FIFound in Translation Incone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -27%
- CECOMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MAone grant, 2020 · $30k
- SSSTANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +7%
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 nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
The mission of our organization is to protect and restore Massachusetts rivers and streams.
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…
The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservation. 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 29 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
185 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. 185 of the 223 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds The Landing School of Boatbuilding & Design ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Voices ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MASS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN MARINE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Opportunities Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Red Tomato Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Art Museum New Bedford Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES 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: 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
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 Island 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.
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
- Associated Scientists at Woods Hole Inc — 54% of income from government
- The Family Pantry- Damien's Place — 36% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc — 29% of income from government
- Ywca of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc — 28% of income from government
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc — 26% of income from government
- Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Inc — 23% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Franklin County Community Development Corporation — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Strategies for Youth — 21% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc — 15% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gallery X Inc — 5% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc — 3% of income from government
- Dream Out Loud Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Biodiversityworks Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.