· Private foundation
Terrapin Station Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPAULDING REHAB HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON | $25,000 |
| NFGM | $10,000 |
| HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DCDEAN COLLEGE3× · 2020–2022 · $750k · revenue +5%
- USUnited States Ski Team Foundation2× · 2019–2021 · $270k · revenue +88%
Rocky Mountain Institute2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +50%
Funded once
YEAR UP INCone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -29%- DPDAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -5%
- SRSCRIPPS RESEARCHone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
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…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.
The northeastern regional association of coastal and ocean observing systems' (neracoos) mission is to produce, integrate and communicate high- quality information that helps ensure safety, economic and environmental resilience, and…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The mission of the mpa collaborative network is to empower communities to engage in marine protected area stewardship for a healty ocean.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The mission of our organization is to protect and restore Massachusetts rivers and streams.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 41 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 YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds DEAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds DAVIS PHINNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds West River Sports Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN'S ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds Wine to Water ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS ↗
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: Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Green Family Charitable Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Terrapin Station Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terrapin Station Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc: 100% of income from government
- Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance Inc: 5% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc: 4% of income from government
- Orleans Conservation Trust: 2% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Dean College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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