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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 students and building an endowment to provide the resources to enhance and preserve the quality of…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUND FOR MARTHA'S VINEYARD’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $1,500,594 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,848,844 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $348,250 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 · FY2019
- Under $10k9 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $103k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD BANK CHARITABLE F | $1,242,879 |
| OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS | $103,064 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| ISLAND FOOD PANTRY | $25,000 |
| GREAT POND FOUNDATION | $16,662 |
| ISLAND AUTISM GROUP | $10,000 |
| THE YARD INC | $10,000 |
| MARTHAS VINEYARD SHELLFISH GROUP | $9,000 |
| RED STOCKING FUND | $8,059 |
| ACE MV | $8,000 |
| ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE | $7,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING | $6,840 |
| DUKES COUNTY HEALTH COUNCIL | $6,650 |
| AQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER | $6,200 |
| FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $32k) 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 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 +134% since the first grant, against +99% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC2× · 2017–2019 · $34k · revenue +15%- SMSAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +89%
- MCMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV2× · 2018–2019 · $16k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF AQUINNAHone grant, 2017 · $58k
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD PUBLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $14k
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +27%
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 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 own and lease land for the purpose of developing, building and maintaining affordable housing on martha's vineyard, massachusetts.
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…
The martha's vineyard agricultural society supports a resilient and sustainable agricultural community on martha's vineyard. we do this by:- offering services, education, marketing, and technical support for farmers and farmworkers on the…
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 purpose of the foundation is to collect and distribute donations for charitable purposes on the island of martha's vineyard.
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 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…
Wmvy's goal is to serve the communities of martha's vineyard and cape cod and to reflect the voice and spirit of those who live here, through the station's programming and personalities. mvy works hard to provide the community with…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aquinnah Cultural Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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 FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
- Who funds The Great Pond Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S ↗
- Who funds MARTHAS VINEYARD CENTER FOR LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE YARD INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD SHELLFISH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds RED STOCKING FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds AQUINNAH CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RISING TIDE THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST 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 Community Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · South Mountain Company Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Slough Farm Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · West Chop Community Fund Inc · Richard and Bette Saltzman Foundation · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Glff Inc · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust
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 Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard 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.
- Marthas Vineyard Center for Living Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Yard Inc — 28% 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 Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% 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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