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South Shore Playhouse Associates Inc at a glance

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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.

$364k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$656kYouth Development$65kEducation$63kEnvironment$61kCommunity Improvement$60kRecreation & Sports$46kAnimals$8kHealth$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $165,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $363,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $198,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD$10,000
ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
DOWNTOWN HYANNIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
JOHN F KENNEDY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC$8,500
COHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL RESEARCH$7,500
COHASSET SWIM AND RECREATION TRUST$7,500
COHASSET HISTORICAL SOCIETY$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL RESEARCH: $14k → 7%WELLSPRING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER: $8k → 8%COHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL RESEARCH: $8k → 7%COHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL RESEARCH: $8k → 7%COHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL RESEARCH: $8k → 7%COHASSET CENTER FOR STUDENT COASTAL RESEARCH: $7k → 7%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM: $6k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$876k · 13 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
13

Total granted

$876k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+57%

Still filing today

92%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CA
    CAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +101%
  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +16%
  • AS
    ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CD
    COHASSET DRAMATIC CLUB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +74%
  • C2
    Cohasset 250
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · 92% of their budget
  • TI
    TALKING INFORMATION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -9%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
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3
Cape Cod Shakespeare Festival in Chatham
Arts & Culture
4
Cape Cod Maritime Museuminc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Cohasset Sailing Club Inc

Sailing instructions for members.

Recreation & Sports
6
Lower Cape Communications Inc

To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts

Arts & Culture
7
Tales of Cape Cod Inc

Tales of Cape Cod, Inc. is a distinguished non-profit organization committed to the preservation and dissemination of Cape Cod's unique historical narrative.

—
8
Truro Historical Societyinc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
The Compact of Cape Cod Conservation Trusts Inc

To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod

Environment
10
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.

—
11
Cordial Eye Gallery and Artist Space Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Cape Cod Center for the Arts Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Shore Conservatory of Music Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INCSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INCCAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INCTHE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE CODATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $62,500 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCCohasset Historical Society: $39,500 · Arts & CultureCohasset Historical SocietyJOHN F KENNEDY HYANNIS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $35,250 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCohasset Public Schools: $60,000 · OtherCohasset …Cohasset 250: $10,000 · OtherCohasset …TALKING INFORMATION CENTER INC: $7,500 · OtherTALKING I…COHASSET HS ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT CLARK CHATTERTON MEMORIAL FUND: $7,500 · OtherCOHASSET …SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentDOWNTOWN HYANNIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementHYANNIS MAIN STREET BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCohasset Center For Student Coastal Research Inc: $43,250 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCohasset Swimming & Recreational Trust: $31,000 · Recreation & SportsSandy Beach Association: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsCOHASSET MARITIME INSTITUTE: $5,250 · EducationPROJECT RISE: $5,250 · EducationNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $7,500 · Animals
Arts & Culture$651,750Other$85,000Youth Development$65,000Community Improvement$60,000Human Services$56,750Recreation & Sports$37,000Education$10,500Animals$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC: $175,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD: $75,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $65,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $62,500 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetCohasset Center For Student Coastal Research Inc: $43,250 over 5y, 10% of budgetCohasset Historical Society: $39,500 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetCohasset Swimming & Recreational Trust: $31,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetDOWNTOWN HYANNIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetHYANNIS MAIN STREET BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY HYANNIS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOHASSET DRAMATIC CLUB INC: $15,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCohasset 250: $10,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetTALKING INFORMATION CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCAPE COD REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMPANY THEATRE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSandy Beach Association: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOHASSET MARITIME INSTITUTE: $5,250 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,250 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Taniguchi Deane F…Sherbrooke Family Cha…South Shore Bank Char…Cape Cod Foundation I…Eastern Bank Foundati…Rockland Trust Charit…Pilgrim Bank Foundati…John K and Thirza F D…Abington Bank Communi…James & Beatrice Sala…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Chubb Charitable Foun…
The Taniguchi Deane Family FoundationMA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization South Shore Playhouse Associates Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Shore Playhouse Associates Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to South Shore Playhouse Associates Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 26 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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