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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…

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$556k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$2.5MHousing & Shelter$1.1MHuman Services$783kHealth$623kEnvironment$554kYouth Development$338kArts & Culture$212kEducation$187kOther$0
02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $1,528,451, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,973,760 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $445,309 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $535k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $365k
  • $250k+1 grant · $556k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF CAPE$25,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S$25,000
HARBOR HOMES OF MV$25,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE$24,870
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $7k → 7%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $146k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING: $101k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $59k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING: $58k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $56k → 8%HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $55k → 8%HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $41k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING: $25k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $25k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICE: $21k → 8%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MV: $19k → 8%HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $16k → 8%GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $12k → 8%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MV: $11k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING: $10k → 8%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MV: $10k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING: $10k → 8%HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD: $9k → 8%GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $6k → 8%GARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 8%HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $5k → 8%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 42 repeat orgs$553k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
19

Total granted

$6.3M
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+24%

Still filing today

88%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • IG
    ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +200%
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $419k · revenue +46%
  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $338k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • MV
    MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $29k · revenue +24%
  • IF
    ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC
    one grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue 0%
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD PARISH
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
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
V G C Foundation Inc

The purpose of the foundation is to collect and distribute donations for charitable purposes on the island of martha's vineyard.

Philanthropy
2
Martha's Vineyard Community Television Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard

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…

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4
Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc
Education
5
Marthas Vineyard Beachgoers Access Group Inc

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…

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6
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc

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.

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7
Vineyard Lands for Our Community Inc C/O Philip Wallis

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Mv Vision Fellowship Fund

To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.

Education
9
Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association
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10
Care for the Cape & Islands Inc

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…

Environment
11
Island Affordable Housing Fund Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
The Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Inc

Fostering creative writing

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 67 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD: $2,309,671 · Food & NutritionISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTDDUKES COUNTY REGIONAL HOUSING: $530,775 · OtherDUKES COUNTY REGIONAL HOUSINGMARTHA'S VINEYARD LAND BANK: $524,673 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD LAND BANKMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $144,814 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMISSION: $92,303 · OtherHARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $110,650 · OtherCHAPPAQUIDDICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $128,500 · Other+36 more: $931,968 · Other+36 moreMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $418,870 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VI…MARTHAS VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING INC: $204,383 · Human ServicesMARTHAS VIN…HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S: $45,496 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF …+3 more: $39,020 · Human Services+3 moreCHILMARK POND FOUNDATION INC: $317,427 · EnvironmentCHILMARK …MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $85,000 · EnvironmentMARTHA'S …SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $71,304 · EnvironmentSHERIFF'S…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $43,400 · EnvironmentMASSACHUS…The Great Pond Foundation Inc: $29,500 · EnvironmentSASSAFRAS EARTH EDUCATION INC: $21,900 · Environment+1 more: $13,815 · EnvironmentMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $338,119 · Youth DevelopmentISLAND HEALTH INC: $127,300 · HealthHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $80,000 · HealthISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC: $31,000 · HealthSAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $40,500 · Arts & CultureCIRCUIT ARTS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $29,179 · Arts & CultureAQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $24,500 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD DIVERSITY COALITION CHARITABLE TRUST: $24,339 · Arts & CultureTHE YARD INC: $21,500 · Arts & Culture
Food & Nutrition$2,309,671Other$2,463,683Human Services$707,769Environment$582,346Youth Development$338,119Health$238,300Arts & Culture$205,018

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD: $2,309,671 over 5y, 13% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $418,870 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $338,119 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCHILMARK POND FOUNDATION INC: $317,427 over 3y, 48% of budgetMARTHAS VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING INC: $204,383 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHAPPAQUIDDICK COMMUNITY CENTER: $128,500 over 1y, 44% of budgetISLAND HEALTH INC: $127,300 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $110,650 over 5y, 25% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $85,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR UNDERWAY EXPERIENTIA L LEARNING INC: $79,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $71,304 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD SHELLFISH GROUP INC: $57,546 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetVINEYARD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $51,700 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION: $46,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S: $45,496 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF CAPE COD & ISLANDS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $43,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $40,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCIRCUIT ARTS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetMISTY MEADOWS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC: $34,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Great Pond Foundation Inc: $29,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRED STOCKING FUND INC: $29,182 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $29,179 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $29,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetISLAND ELDERLY HOUSING INC: $26,249 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV: $25,700 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $24,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGARDEN GATE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $23,170 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetHAVENSIDE CORPORATION: $22,850 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetSASSAFRAS EARTH EDUCATION INC: $21,900 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTHE YARD INC: $21,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: $20,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Sexual Wellness Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,303 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIODIVERSITYWORKS INC: $13,815 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC: $13,231 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Donors Collaborative Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MEDIATION PROGRAM INC: $8,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $6,850 over 1y, 0.2% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Martha's Vineyard Ban…The Peter and Elizabe…South Mountain Compan…Slough Farm FoundationMutual Bancorp Founda…Permanent Endowment F…Tower Family Fund IncRockland Trust Charit…Gretchen V & Samuel M…Cape Cod Five Cents S…Mv Vision Fellowship …The Couch Family Foun…
Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation IncMA63.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 67 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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