Massachusetts · Public charity
Mv Vision Fellowship Fund
To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
- $766k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $312k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $97,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Mv Vision Fellowship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $312k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $424k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $185k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $149k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $492k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $353k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $95k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $96k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westchester Community College Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Martha's Vineyard Commission | $317,890 | 4 | n/a |
| Martha's Vineyard Fishermen's Preservation Trust Inc | $236,780 | 4 | 31% |
| Island Grown Initiative Ltd | $223,529 | 6 | 2% |
| Manhattanville University | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vineyard Power Development Fund Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Vineyard Conservation Society Inc | $197,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Biodiversityworks Inc | $129,161 | 3 | 15% |
| Martha's Vineyard Regional High School | $115,961 | 3 | n/a |
| Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc | $103,000 | 2 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Mv Vision Fellowship Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Mv Vision Fellowship Fund
- How much does Mv Vision Fellowship Fund give?
- Mv Vision Fellowship Fund reported 6 itemized grants totaling $311,557, out of $765,854 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mv Vision Fellowship Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Environment (22%), Health (12%).
- Who are Mv Vision Fellowship Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Westchester Community College Foundation Inc ($400k), Martha's Vineyard Commission ($318k), Martha's Vineyard Fishermen's Preservation Trust Inc ($237k).
- Does Mv Vision Fellowship Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mv Vision Fellowship Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc, South Mountain Company Foundation.
- Where is Mv Vision Fellowship Fund based?
- Mv Vision Fellowship Fund is based in MA.
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