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The Nook Foundation at a glance

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The Nook Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$49kEnvironment$40kHealth$33kHuman Services$23kFood & Nutrition$21kCommunity Improvement$17kEducation$13kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$274k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPE COD CENTER FOR THE ARTS$25,000
DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST$10,000
ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION$5,000
HEALTH EQUITY INSTITUTE$5,000
EDINBURG CENTER$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS$1,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$1,000
FILL A BACK PACK INC$1,000
THREE PEAKS MEDICAL CLINIC$1,000
CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART$500
PINE STREET INN$500
Individual grant recipient$250
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE EDINBURG CENTER: $5k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%THE EDINBURG CENTER: $5k → 8%THE EDINBURG CENTER: $5k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%THE EDINBURG CENTER: $5k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%EDINBURG CENTER: $3k → 8%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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137k · 11 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$137k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

55%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalEducationOther
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

  • THE DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +21%
  • TE
    THE EDINBURG CENTER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +32%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP
    4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • DV
    DENNIS VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%
  • SR
    St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -47%
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
Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc

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.

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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4
Housing Assistance Corporation

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,…

Housing & Shelter
5
Upham's Corner Health Committee Inc

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.

Health
6
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
7
Adult Congenital Heart Association

To empower the congenital heart disease (chd) community by advancing access to resources and specialized care that improve patient-centered outcomes.

Health
8
Maine Medical Association

To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.

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9
Cape Cod & Islands Association of Realtors Inc

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…

—
10
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
11
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
12
Massachusetts Association of Health Plans Inc

To promote high-quality, affordable, and equitable health care in massachusetts through advocacy, education and health policy research.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Edinburg Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEALTH EQUITY INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherHEALTH EQUITY INSTITUTECAPE PLAYHOUSE: $20,000 · OtherCAPE PLAYHOUSEDENNIS VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY: $12,000 · OtherDENNIS VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETYAssociation of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation: $4,800 · OtherAssociation of Chamber of Commerce Executiv…ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION (ACCE): $4,800 · OtherADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION…ADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC: $5,000 · OtherADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION…FILL A BACK PACK INC: $3,000 · Other+8 more: $6,000 · Other+8 moreTHE DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST: $40,000 · EnvironmentTHE DENNIS CONSERVATI…CAPE COD CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE COD CENTER…CAPE CINEMA INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCAPE CINEMA INCTHE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EDINBURG CENTER INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesTHE EDINBURG C…PINE STREET INN INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET IN…Compassionate Care ALS Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesCompassionate …THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $20,000 · Food & NutritionTHE FAMILY…St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD: $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · HealthThree Peaks Medical Clinic Inc: $1,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $600 · HealthUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 · International
Other$80,600Environment$40,000Arts & Culture$28,500Human Services$26,500Food & Nutrition$20,000Health$8,600International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST: $40,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE EDINBURG CENTER INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR A COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSt Rock Haiti Foundation LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAssociation of Chamber of Commerce Executives Foundation: $4,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAPE CINEMA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Care Without Walls Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Harold L Wyman Founda…Cape Cod Foundation I…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Harold L Wyman Foundation Inc Co Mark a KoenigNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Nook Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nook Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 29 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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