· Private foundation
Sse Worthington Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC | $10,000 |
| MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION | $7,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC | $5,000 |
| NISHA | $5,000 |
| THE RAPTOR TRUST | $5,000 |
| OUR HOUSE NANTUCKET | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON | $5,000 |
| ARTIST'S ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET | $5,000 |
| NANTUCKET RELIEF ASSOCIATION | $3,500 |
| NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
To enrich the cultural life of the island by fostering and supporting music education and performance opportunities for young people and adults.
The nantucket atheneum, a private non-profit organization provides public library service to the island's year-round and seasonal residents, housed in a historic 1847 building and the weezie library for children. the atheneum collects,…
Protect nantucket's natural world and rural character by holding and enforcing conservation restrictions, commissioning scientific research, monitoring development proposals, engaging in legal proceedings to protect natural resources, and…
To generate private support for public education on nantucket, to foster private and public partnerships that benefit the children of nantucket public schools, and to honor excellence in teaching and learning.
Regional theater
Promote the awareness and appreciation of lightship baskets and their makers, by educating and engaging the public about the complexity of this art form unique to nantucket. exhibiting historic and contemporary baskets.
The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and…
To educate and encourage property owners as to what is possible to preserve and protect the historical elements of their properties and to raise awareness of the community about the value of and need for historic architectural preservation.
Nantucket new school is an independent day school serving students in pre-school through grade eight and strong wings is an outdoor adventure school.
To preserve the character of the village of 'sconset by conserving open land, preserving historically and/or architecturally significant structures and fostering a healthy commercial center in keeping with 'sconset's character.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · M S Worthington Foundation · Tupancy-Harris Fdn-1986 · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sse Worthington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sse Worthington Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in: 9% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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