· Private foundation
Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc
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: 79% of MARTHA'S VINEYARD BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k139 grants · $338k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $168k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $365k
- $250k+1 grant · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD OCEAN ACADEMY | $251,000 |
| CHILMARK PRESCHOOL | $200,200 |
| FRIENDS NOBSKA LIGHT | $101,000 |
| FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST | $64,000 |
| MV YOUTH | $26,000 |
| FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $25,500 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $22,000 |
| HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $16,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD PUBLIC SCHOOL | $12,899 |
| BELONGING TO EACH OTHER | $12,000 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER OF MARTHA'S VINYARD | $11,500 |
| HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION | $11,000 |
| ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS | $10,500 |
| HARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $10,500 |
| HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $146k) 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 +28% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
142 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 64 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $424k 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
- FHFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST4× · 2020–2025 · $108k · revenue +277%
- HHHARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC5× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue ×31
- MYMV YOUTH INC4× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1.1M
- MIMIRIMUS INCone grant, 2021 · $163k
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD OCEAN ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $103k
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 island food pantry of martha's vineyard, inc.'s mission is to improve and sustain the quality of life in dukes county, massachusetts through the operation of a food pantry to provide temporary food and personal items as needed to…
To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
Mission to advocate for continued broad and affordable public beach access for residents and visitors of Marthas Vineyard alike while being mindful of the environmental conservation and preservation that makes these places special History…
Land conservation
The purpose of the foundation is to collect and distribute donations for charitable purposes on the island of martha's vineyard.
Twenty-nine rental units in four buildings that are available to qualified seniors at below market rate rent.
Vineyard lands for our community inc. (the organization) is a charitable educational and community organization that is actively engaged in solving island-wide needs with sustainable and viable solutions to preserve the character and life…
To protect and improve the natural advantages and the pleasing appearance of Yarmouth.
Expand philanthropy on Marthas Vineyard and support its nonprofit organizations through capacity building and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Ghost Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vineyard Youth Tennnisinc. 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 29 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
141 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. 141 of the 408 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 FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD COMMITTE ON HUNGER ↗
- Who funds BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Vineyard House Inc ↗
- Who funds RED STOCKING FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD FALMOUTH 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: Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · South Mountain Company Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private 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 Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable 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.
- Coonamessett Farm Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Alzheimer's Family Caregiver Support Center Inc — 57% of income from government
- Duffy Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Marthas Vineyard Center for Living Inc — 40% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Yard Inc — 28% of income from government
- Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
- Joe Q Veteran Coffee Break Inc — 15% of income from government
- Falmouth Together We Can Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Lily House Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc — 9% of income from government
- Woods Hole Film Festival Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society Inc — 6% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's — 5% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sassafras Earth Education Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- West Falmouth Library Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Falmouth Chorale Inc — 2% of income from government
- Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Circuit Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Biodiversityworks Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- We Can Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Heroes in Transition Inc — 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% 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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