· Private foundation
JMG Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $7,300 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF MARTHAS VINEYARD INC | $4,800 |
| H Shepard | $4,000 |
| GFWC NAPLES WOMANS CLUB INC | $2,000 |
| SAIL MARTHAS VINEYARD INC | $1,200 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD GARDEN CLUB INC | $600 |
| NAPLES ART DISTRICT INC | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $500 |
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 (FY19–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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 +73% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- RSRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +42%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC4× · 2019–2022 · $42k · revenue +11%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +135%
Funded once
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +63%
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +138%- DRD Ralphsone grant, 2019 · $3k
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 martha's vineyard agricultural society supports a resilient and sustainable agricultural community on martha's vineyard. we do this by:- offering services, education, marketing, and technical support for farmers and farmworkers on the…
The martha's vineyard shellfish group, a non-profit consortium of the shellfish departments of six island towns, provides shellfish propagation services to increase the availability of juvenile commercially valuable molluscan shellfish…
To own and lease land for the purpose of developing, building and maintaining affordable housing on martha's vineyard, massachusetts.
The organization's primary mission is to acquire, restore, and maintain the historic landmarks of martha's vineyard and to preserve the island's unique character, cultural history, and heritage for the community and it's visitors.
The martha's vineyard community foundation, inc., successor to the permanent endowment fund for martha's vineyard, the island's community foundation, puts charitable contributions to work for the people of martha's vineyard by making…
The permanent endowment fund for martha's vineyard, the island's community foundation, puts charitable contributions to work for the people of martha's vineyard by makig grants that address community needs, funding scholarships for island…
To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
To bind its members together by a common objective to provide leisure and recreation.
Expand philanthropy on Marthas Vineyard and support its nonprofit organizations through capacity building and advocacy.
The vineyard conservation society, inc. (vcs) is a conservation organization whose mission includes advocacy and public education, as well as resource and enironmental protection information.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Provide a temporary home at no cost to serve and sustain families of seriously ill or injured adults and children receiving treatment at pensacola area hospitals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Endicott College. 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 34 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 36 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 RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GFWC NAPLES WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Woburn Council of Social Concern Inc ↗
- Who funds KAPPA DELTA SORORITY - EPSILON TAU CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA CONCOURS D ELEGANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE POWER OF EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ART DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINTON CLUB ↗
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: Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 JMG Family 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.
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's — 5% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Legal Aid Service of Broward County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 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.
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