· Private foundation
The Kathryn Goodman 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $299k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSICALLY FED | $50,000 |
| MVY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| MV COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CHILD JUSTICE INC | $30,000 |
| BACH CENTER | $30,000 |
| MV MUSEUM | $20,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| VH LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| MINNESINGERS PARENT GROUP MPG | $17,500 |
| MV OCEAN ACADEMY | $13,260 |
| CIRCUIT ARTS | $12,500 |
| HOSPICE OF MARTHAS VINEYARD | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MVY CENTER FOR LIVING | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k 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
- MFMUSICALLY FED7× · 2019–2025 · $358k · revenue +108%
- CJChild Justice Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +442%
- FOFRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- PEPERMANENT ENDOWMENT FUND OF MVone grant, 2020 · $70k
- SSWEETWATERone grant, 2022 · $49k
- NNAVIGATORone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
The island food pantry of martha's vineyard, inc.'s mission is to improve and sustain the quality of life in dukes county, massachusetts through the operation of a food pantry to provide temporary food and personal items as needed to…
To own and lease land for the purpose of developing, building and maintaining affordable housing on martha's vineyard, massachusetts.
To strive for the lifelong independence, confidence, and happiness of autistic individuals and their families on martha's vineyard, through housing, life skills, enrichment, job training, and therapies.
Martha's vineyard community services' mission is to enhance the lives of those it serves by meeting the comprehensive needs of individuals, families, and the community through a partnership of programs that provides accessible education…
The martha's vineyard shellfish group, a non-profit consortium of the shellfish departments of six island towns, provides shellfish propagation services to increase the availability of juvenile commercially valuable molluscan shellfish…
To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
Provide a temporary home at no cost to serve and sustain families of seriously ill or injured adults and children receiving treatment at pensacola area hospitals.
Island Health Care's mission is to ensure all islanders, regardless of income or insurance status, have access to high-quality health care. Island Health Care Provides community-based health safety net services and programs to provide…
To end the cycle of violence and homelessness for women in San Francisco by providing permanent housing and supportive services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Martha's Vineyard Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Leslie St Fang Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 62 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 MUSICALLY FED ↗
- Who funds Child Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MVYRADIO INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Vineyard House Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds THE LESLIE ST FANG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SASSAFRAS EARTH EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesingers Parents Group Inc ↗
- Who funds PET ADOPTION AND WELFARE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR UNDERWAY EXPERIENTIA L LEARNING INC ↗
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: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Swartz Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Gitlitz Family Foundation · Hoerle Foundation Inc · If Hummingbird Foundation Inc
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 The Kathryn Goodman Foundation 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.
- Child Justice Inc — 33% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's — 5% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sassafras Earth Education Inc — 3% of income from government
- Circuit Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mvyradio Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% 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.