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Mv Vision Fellowship Fund
To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $311,557 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $765,854 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $454,297 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMISSION | $97,750 |
| ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE | $81,752 |
| VINEYARD POWER DEVELOPMENT FUND | $50,000 |
| HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $49,380 |
| BIODIVERSITY WORKS | $20,175 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD BUILDER ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WCWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +11%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC4× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +11% · 31% of their budget
- IGISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD6× · 2017–2025 · $224k · revenue +395%
Funded once
- MUMANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -2%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $77k · revenue -52%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INCone grant, 2024 · $36k · revenue 0%
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 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…
The organization's primary mission is to acquire, restore, and maintain the historic landmarks of martha's vineyard and to preserve the island's unique character, cultural history, and heritage for the community and it's visitors.
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…
To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
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…
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…
Expand philanthropy on Marthas Vineyard and support its nonprofit organizations through capacity building and advocacy.
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…
The Vineyard Energy Project is dedicated to meeting the needs for greater energy knowledge on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Vineyard Energy Project is also focused on education, advocacy and developing community-based solutions to the…
The purpose of the foundation is to collect and distribute donations for charitable purposes on the island of martha's vineyard.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Options in Education Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds MANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Vineyard Power Development Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUND FOR MARTHA'S VINEYARD ↗
- Who funds BIODIVERSITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD INDEPENDENCE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Great Pond Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MOUNTAIN COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MVBA Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD SHELLFISH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Options In Education Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY 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: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · South Mountain Company Foundation · Slough Farm Foundation · Stonehouse Inc · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Henry & Anne Garfinkle Foundation Inc · Alden Charitable Foundation Inc · Cardinal Brook Trust · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower 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 Mv Vision Fellowship Fund 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.
- Island Health Inc — 77% of income from government
- Center for Ecotechnology Inc — 9% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 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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