· Private foundation
Ms Worthington Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL | $15,000 |
| RAPTOR TRUST | $5,000 |
| NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CATTRAP INC | $5,000 |
| MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ARTISTS ASSN OF NANTUCKET | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON | $5,000 |
| NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS | $5,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEAN INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| RELIEF ASSOCIATION INC IN NANTUCKET | $3,000 |
| NANTUCKET CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($752k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($109k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($109k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- NMNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN7× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +187%
- NLNANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +60%
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $41k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- MWMARY WALKER HIS EDU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
CHIMP HAVEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +121%- TCThe Children's Health Fundone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -46%
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 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…
Protect nantucket's natural world and rural character by holding and enforcing conservation restrictions, commissioning scientific research, monitoring development proposals, engaging in legal proceedings to protect natural resources, and…
The nantucket atheneum, a private non-profit organization provides public library service to the island's year-round and seasonal residents, housed in a historic 1847 building and the weezie library for children. the atheneum collects,…
Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…
To generate private support for public education on nantucket, to foster private and public partnerships that benefit the children of nantucket public schools, and to honor excellence in teaching and learning.
Nantucket new school is an independent day school serving students in pre-school through grade eight and strong wings is an outdoor adventure school.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and…
To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
To preserve the character of the village of 'sconset by conserving open land, preserving historically and/or architecturally significant structures and fostering a healthy commercial center in keeping with 'sconset's character.
The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.
Promote the awareness and appreciation of lightship baskets and their makers, by educating and engaging the public about the complexity of this art form unique to nantucket. exhibiting historic and contemporary baskets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Albert F Egan Jr & Dorothy H Egan F. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 40 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 NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds The Bridge School ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds CATTRAP INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET DISC GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds CHIMP HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT F EGAN JR & DOROTHY H EGAN F ↗
- Who funds World Ocean School Inc ↗
- Who funds OUT TO SEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds YMCA CAMP BELKNAP 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: Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Tupancy-Harris Fdn-1986 · The George & Marie Chabot Charitable Foundation · King Spruce Company · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Sse Worthington Foundation · Elizabeth Thayer & E Geoffrey Verney Foundation · The Carl & Nancy Gewirz Fund Inc · Twin Chimney 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 Ms Worthington 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.
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Community Music Center — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket 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.
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