· Public charity
South Shore Playhouse Associates Inc
To own, operate and manage entertainment venues, and to support 501(c)(3) non profit organizations in southeastern massachussets involved in arts, recreation and education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $165,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $363,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $198,500 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC CAPE SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER | $25,000 |
| PAUL PRATT MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $20,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| DOWNTOWN HYANNIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD | $10,000 |
| JOHN F KENNEDY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $8,500 |
| COHASSET SWIM AND RECREATION TRUST | $7,500 |
| COHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL RESEARCH | $7,500 |
| COHASSET HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 1 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 FY2024, 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
- CACAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +101%
- SSSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +16%
- ASATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CDCOHASSET DRAMATIC CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +74%
- C2Cohasset 250one grant, 2019 · $10k · 92% of their budget
- TCTHE COMPANY THEATRE INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -10%
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.
To establish and operate a maritime museum and visitor hospitality center near hyannis harbor, in hyannis, massachusetts, and to conduct such other activities and programs in furtherance of the foregoing purposes.
Sailing instructions for members.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
Tales of Cape Cod, Inc. is a distinguished non-profit organization committed to the preservation and dissemination of Cape Cod's unique historical narrative.
The mission of the truro historical society is to acquire, protect, display and maintain artifacts of interest to the general public, with special emphasis on the truro community. displays will rotate, new items acquired, educational and…
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
The Cordial Eye is a community arts organization based on the Mid-Cape that strives to use the arts and arts education as a tool for expanding the definition of who belongs on Cape Cod and what it means to be a creative person here.
The cape cod center for the arts fosters creativity, enriches lives, and nurtures learning by providing exceptional cultural and artistic experiences. with a focus on live theatre, cinematic arts, education, and horticulture, it thrives…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Shore Conservatory of Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Rise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 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 SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Cohasset Center For Student Coastal Research Inc ↗
- Who funds Cohasset Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Cohasset Swimming & Recreational Trust ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN HYANNIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HYANNIS MAIN STREET BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY HYANNIS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COHASSET DRAMATIC CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Cohasset 250 ↗
- Who funds THE COMPANY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TALKING INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds Sandy Beach Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds COHASSET MARITIME INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT RISE ↗
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: The Taniguchi Deane Family Foundation · Sherbrooke Family Charitable Trust · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Pilgrim Bank Foundation · John K and Thirza F Davenport Foundation · Abington Bank Community Foundation Inc F/K/A Envision Bank Foundation Inc · James & Beatrice Salah Charitable Trust Dtd 08-09-2001 · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable 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 South Shore Playhouse Associates Inc 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.
- Talking Information Center Inc — 71% of income from government
- Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod — 6% of income from government
- South Shore Art Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Academy of Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Downtown Hyannis Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% 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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