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M&C Somewhere Foundation at a glance

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M&C Somewhere 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.

$107k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

56% of M&C Somewhere Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Vermont Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year M&C Somewhere Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $107k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
0
’18
5
’19
7
’20
5
’21
2
’22
3
’23
2
’24
4
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.8MEducation$527kArts & Culture$269kHealth$150kEnvironment$120kCommunity Improvement$45kFood & Nutrition$10kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,875
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE$50,000
B TEAM$20,000
KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL$20,000
MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL$5,875
SHELBURNE FARMS$5,000
MIDDLEBURY UNDERGROUND$5,000
SOUTHERN ATELIER INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOMEWARD BOUND: $5k → 11%HUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE: $50k → 7%KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL: $20k → 11%FRACTURED ATLAS: $72k → 9%B TEAM: $20k → 17%SOUTHERN ATELIER INC: $1k → 10%THE STRONGHOLD FUND: $50k → 12%VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $800k → 9%SHELBURNE FARMS: $5k → 10%HUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE: $50k → 7%KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL: $20k → 11%FRACTURED ATLAS: $45k → 9%THE B TEAM: $25k → 17%WILD SALMON CENTER: $35k → 12%VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $791k → 9%SHELBURNE FARMS: $5k → 10%HUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE: $50k → 7%KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL: $20k → 11%FRACTURED ATLAS: $27k → 9%THE STRONGHOLD FUND: $35k → 12%VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $650k → 9%KARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL: $20k → 11%FRACTURED ATLAS: $13k → 9%VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $600k → 9%MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL: $500k → 9%VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $475k → 9%VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250k → 9%VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%MIDDLEBURY UNDERGROUND: $26k → 9%MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL: $7k → 9%MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL: $7k → 9%MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL: $6k → 9%MIDDLEBURY UNDERGROUND: $5k → 9%HOMEWARD BOUND: $4k → 9%MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL: $2k → 9%FRIENDS OF RIPTON SCHOOL: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$1.1M
$4k

Still filing today

88%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MS
    MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2025 · $522k · revenue +454% · 57% of their budget
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $157k · revenue +49%
  • TS
    THE STRONGHOLD FUND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $85k · revenue +421%

Funded once

  • HB
    HOMEWARD BOUND
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Vermont College of Fine Arts Foundation Inc

To provide financial support for the operations and programs of vermont college of fine arts, inc.

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2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
4
Grounds for Sculpture Inc

Grounds For Sculpture combines art and beckoning spaces to welcome, surprise, and engage all visitors in the artists act of invention.

Arts & Culture
5
Fitchburg Art Museum

The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…

Arts & Culture
6
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
7
The Vermont River Conservancy Inc

Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.

Human Services
8
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture
9
Marin Open Studios

Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…

Arts & Culture
10
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
11
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Ripton School Friends of Ripton Students. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,815,680 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL: $522,075 · EducationMIDDLEBURY S…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $157,100 · Arts & CultureKARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL: $80,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE INC: $150,000 · HealthTHE STRONGHOLD FUND: $85,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTER: $35,000 · AnimalsB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $10,000 · EnvironmentMIDDLEBURY UNDERGROUND INC: $31,000 · OtherHOMEWARD BOUND: $3,500 · OtherHOMEWARD BOUND: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$3,815,680Education$527,075Arts & Culture$238,100Health$150,000Animals$120,000Environment$55,000Other$34,500Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,815,680 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL: $522,075 over 5y, 57% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $157,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE STRONGHOLD FUND: $85,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetKARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL: $80,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetB TEAM HEADQUARTERS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Ripton School Friends of Ripton Students: $5,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetMIANO ACADEMY OF ART INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization M&C Somewhere Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M&C Somewhere Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home