· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 13% of all-years giving ($109k)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds OUT TO SEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds YMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ms Worthington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ms Worthington Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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