· Private foundation
The Nook Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE COD CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| HEALTH EQUITY INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| EDINBURG CENTER | $2,500 |
| THREE PEAKS MEDICAL CLINIC | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS | $1,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| FILL A BACK PACK INC | $1,000 |
| CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART | $500 |
| PINE STREET INN | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 (FY21–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
THE DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +21%- TETHE EDINBURG CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +32%
- TFTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- DVDENNIS VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $12k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%- SRSt Rock Haiti Foundation LTDone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -47%
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 improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
To provide the community with comprehensive health care in dorchester, ma including primary and specialty care, home care, social services, women, infant and child care, and adult day health care.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To empower the congenital heart disease (chd) community by advancing access to resources and specialized care that improve patient-centered outcomes.
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To promote high-quality, affordable, and equitable health care in massachusetts through advocacy, education and health policy research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Edinburg Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 29 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 THE DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE EDINBURG CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation ↗
- Who funds FILL A BACK PACK INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE CINEMA INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Care ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds Three Peaks Medical Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS 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: Harold L Wyman Foundation Inc Co Mark a Koenig · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 The Nook 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.
- The Edinburg Center Inc — 81% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art 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.