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South Mountain Company 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.

$8k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 51
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$10k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations South Mountain Company Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$8k0%
FY202239$31k36%
FY202129$27k38%
FY202051$38k88%
FY20192$7k0%
FY201813$26k62%
FY201711$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$31kYouth Development$25kEnvironment$18kFood & Nutrition$14kHousing & Shelter$14kHealth$14kHuman Services$9kEducation$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
SD
IA
OH
PA
RI
CA
KY
AZ
DC
LA
MS
AL
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 65 grantees
All grantees of South Mountain Company Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
You've Got a Friend Inc$30,000552%
Mv Youth Inc$24,00040%
Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc$8,60050%
Vineyard Conservation Society Inc$8,25051%
Island Housing Trust Corporation$5,08330%
Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc$4,25030%
Aquinnah Cultural Center Inc$3,25021%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$3,00010%
Amurtel Inc$3,0001n/a
Island Grown Initiative Ltd$2,50010%
Tisbury School PTO$2,300323%
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc$2,00020%
Vineyard Energy Project Inc$2,00023%
World Central Kitchen Inc$1,50010%
Vineyard Montessori School Inc$1,38530%
Haitian Education and Leadership Program$1,30030%
Martha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp Inc$1,20020%
Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's$1,20030%
Garden Gate Child Development Center Inc$1,10020%
Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation$1,00010%
Economic Development and Empowerment Through Mentoring$1,0001n/a
Vineyard House Inc$85020%
Habitat for Humanity of Martha's Vineyard Inc$75030%
Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc$60030%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc$60020%
Biodiversityworks Inc$60020%
Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society Inc$55020%
Vineyard Independence Partnership Inc$50031%
Vineyard Futureworks Inc$50010%
Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group Inc$40020%
Vineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund Inc$35010%
Misty Meadows Equine Learning Center Inc$35020%
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc$30020%
The Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass Bluefish Derby Inc$25010%
Yestermorrow Inc$25010%
350org$25010%
Greenfield Community College Foundation$25010%
Island Institute$25020%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund$25010%
Damiano of Duluth Inc$25010%
Red Stocking Fund Inc$20020%
Cooperative Development Institute Inc$20010%
Fcnl Education Fund$20020%
Sheriff's Meadow Foundation$20020%
Marthas Vineyard Center for Living Inc$2002n/a
Options In Education Inc$15010%
Living Beyond Breast Cancer$15010%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$10010%
Clean Ocean Access Inc$10010%
Island Autism Group Inc$10010%
Center for Furniture Craftsmanship$10010%
Mv Center for Education and Training (Mv$10010%
Second Chance Animal Rescue INC$10010%
Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership$10010%
Equal Justice Initiative$10010%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$10010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1001n/a
Martha's Vineyard Cancer Support Group$10010%
Polly Hill Arboretum Inc$10010%
Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi$10010%
Center for Ecotechnology Inc$10010%
Center on Halsted$10010%
The Yard Inc$10010%
Voice of the Experienced Vote$10010%
African Artists Community Development Project Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

South Mountain Company Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYou've Got a Friend Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 52% of budgetMv Youth Inc: $24,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: $8,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVineyard Conservation Society Inc: $8,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetIsland Housing Trust Corporation: $5,083 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHarbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $4,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAquinnah Cultural Center Inc: $3,250 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Grown Initiative Ltd: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTisbury School PTO: $2,300 over 3y, 23% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Playhouse Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVineyard Energy Project Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVineyard Montessori School Inc: $1,385 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHaitian Education and Leadership Program: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's: $1,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGarden Gate Child Development Center Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease Research Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVineyard House Inc: $850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBiodiversityworks Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Agricultural Society Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVineyard Independence Partnership Inc: $500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetVineyard Futureworks Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Shellfish Group Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVineyard Haven Public Library Building Fund Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMisty Meadows Equine Learning Center Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Martha's Vineyard Striped Bass Bluefish Derby Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYestermorrow Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350org: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenfield Community College Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSunrise Movement Education Fund: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDamiano of Duluth Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRed Stocking Fund Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCooperative Development Institute Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFcnl Education Fund: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSheriff's Meadow Foundation: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOptions In Education Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Beyond Breast Cancer: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClean Ocean Access Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Autism Group Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Furniture Craftsmanship: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 61.

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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.

Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation IncMA61.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Stonehouse Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard · Slough Farm Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Mv Vision Fellowship Fund · Henry & Anne Garfinkle Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About South Mountain Company Foundation

How much does South Mountain Company Foundation give?
South Mountain Company Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $8,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does South Mountain Company Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (20%), Youth Development (16%), Environment (11%).
Who are South Mountain Company Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: You've Got a Friend Inc ($30k), Mv Youth Inc ($24k), Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc ($9k).
Does South Mountain Company Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does South Mountain Company Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as South Mountain Company Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc, Stonehouse Inc.
Where is South Mountain Company Foundation based?
South Mountain Company Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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