· Private foundation
Schoolbell Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CLEAR FUND DBA GIVEWELL | $2,250 |
| GIVE DIRECTLY | $2,250 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BOS | $2,000 |
| REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENT | $2,000 |
| CENTER STREET FOOD PANTRY | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MA | $1,500 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $1,500 |
| THE TULGEY WOOD | $1,000 |
| VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| AFRICIAN ARTISTS COMMUNITY DEV PROJ | $1,000 |
| ISLAND GROWTH INITIATIVE FOOD PANTR | $1,000 |
| HARBOR HOMES OF MARTHAS VINEYARD | $800 |
| MARTHA' VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES | $500 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WEST | $200 |
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 (FY19–25, $10k) 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 +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TTTHE TULGEY WOOD INC7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +97%
GIVEDIRECTLY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +47%- TCTHE CLEAR FUND3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TSTREMONT SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +12%
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 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 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…
Expand philanthropy on Marthas Vineyard and support its nonprofit organizations through capacity building and advocacy.
Safeguarding martha's vineyard's fishing heritage and future by supporting the island's small-boat owner-operated fishing fleets and their sustainably harvested catch.
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 strive for the lifelong independence, confidence, and happiness of autistic individuals and their families on martha's vineyard, through housing, life skills, enrichment, job training, and therapies.
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…
The martha's vineyard museum inspires all people to discover, explore, and strengthen their connections to this island and its diverse heritage.
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…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
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 Vineyard Committe On Hunger. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 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 OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TULGEY WOOD INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD SHELLFISH GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds VINEYARD COMMITTE ON HUNGER ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOMES OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD 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 · Boston Foundation Inc · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Schoolbell 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.
- Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center — 8% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.