· Private foundation
Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable 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: 46% of JOAN BENTINCK-SMITH CHARITABLE 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 FEDERATED CHURCH | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $58k) 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +23%
- SSSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC3× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +38%
- CACAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK - HYANNISone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CCCAPE COD REGIONAL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%
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.
Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…
To improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
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…
Sustain, support and stimulate existing cape cod businesses; increase employment opportunities by attracting desirable businesses to cape cod; foster and promote communication between the community, local government, and the business…
Cape cod chamber of commerce advocates on behalf of business to strenghten and promote regional economic vitality while addressing related cultural, environmental & community concerns.
To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
The organization is responsible for overseeing all publicly funded vocational education and training programs for the cape cod, martha's vineyard, and nantucket areas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Center of Cape Cod and the most unlike its peers is Gosnold Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 41 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CALMER CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD MARITIME MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds GOSNOLD INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds HARWICH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAHOON MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SANTUIT AND COTUIT ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAMPSON FUND FOR VETERINARY CARE 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 · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower 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 Joan Bentinck-Smith Charitable 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
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Duffy Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cahoon Museum of American Art Inc — 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.