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Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc
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 grants that address community needs, funding scholarships for island students, and budiling an endowment…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $1,528,451 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,973,760 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $445,309 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $535k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $365k
- $250k+1 grant · $556k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE | $555,662 |
| CHAPPAQUIDDICK COMMUNITY CENTER | $128,500 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS AND | $101,568 |
| CHILMARK POND FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| FEDERATED CHURCH OF MARTHA'S VINEYA | $60,000 |
| ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION | $46,500 |
| HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $41,015 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL | $32,343 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF | $28,000 |
| MV OCEAN ACADEMY | $27,500 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMISSION | $26,723 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S | $25,000 |
| HARBOR HOMES OF MV | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF CAPE | $25,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE | $24,870 |
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, $708k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k 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
- IGISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +176%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $419k · revenue +46%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC4× · 2021–2024 · $338k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INCone grant, 2023 · $29k · revenue +21%
- IFISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INCone grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue 0%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD PARISHone grant, 2020 · $25k
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 purpose of the foundation is to collect and distribute donations for charitable purposes on the island of martha's vineyard.
To produce public, education, and governmental (peg) access programming for the residents and organizations of the six communities of the island of martha's vineyard. in addition, the organization allocates channel space and time 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 makig grants that address community needs, funding scholarships for island…
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…
Martha's vineyard playhouse is a professional, non-profit working theater dedicated to inspiring, enriching and entertaining our diverse island community. we believe that theater has the power to transform lives.
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 empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
To facilitate the protection of the unique nature of cape cod, martha's vineyard and nantucket islands area and promote community improvements through responsible business practices, economic development and stewardship of the natural…
To promote affordable housing on the island of Martha's Vineyard and other charitable and educational purposes in such a manner that the Corporation will qualify as an exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue…
Fostering creative writing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waltham West Suburban Chamber of Commerc. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 67 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 ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CHILMARK POND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHAS VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPPAQUIDDICK COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR UNDERWAY EXPERIENTIA L LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD SHELLFISH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF CAPE COD & ISLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCUIT ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The Great Pond Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RED STOCKING FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND ELDERLY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds MV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV ↗
- Who funds AQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD DIVERSITY COALITION CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
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 Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · South Mountain Company Foundation · Slough Farm Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard · Tower Family Fund Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mv Vision Fellowship Fund · The Couch Family 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 Martha's Vineyard Community 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
- Island Health Inc — 77% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Mediation Program Inc — 71% of income from government
- Marthas Vineyard Center for Living Inc — 40% 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
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% 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
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 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
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Biodiversityworks Inc — 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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