· Private foundation
The Sternbergh Foundation Ltd
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $31,500 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC MARTIN HEALTH | $10,000 |
| SAILFISH POINT FDN | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARTIN COUNTY | $1,000 |
| SWIM ACROSS AMERICA | $200 |
| NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOC | $150 |
| TOM NEVERS CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $50 |
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 (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
21 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAILFISH POINT FDN9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +60%
- CRCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +43%
- GCGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +182%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MARTIN COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +511%
- FOFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $484 · revenue +12%
- MMMARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue +229%
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…
To engage people of all ages in the joy of sailing, offering access to all nantucket's youth, and teaching every participant in our programs enduring life and leadership skills, with a deep respect for the marine environment.
To provide means for the recreation and entertainment of its members, by establishing and maintaining a club with the proper buildings, grounds, and facilities to promote yachting, sports and social activities.
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,…
The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To enrich the cultural life of the island by fostering and supporting music education and performance opportunities for young people and adults.
Rimta's mission is to champion the rhode island marine industry through advocacy, education, environmental stewardship, innovation and promotion.
Support and encourage a collaborative community of the visual, performing and literary arts through education, grants, scholarships and events.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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.
The new england aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement and education, commitment to marine animal conservation, innovative scientific research, and effective advocacy for a vital and vibrant ocean.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 38 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.
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- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOC ↗
- Who funds SWIM ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET POLICE CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TABLE TO TABLE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SADONA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sternbergh Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sternbergh Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in: 9% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
- United Way of Martin County Inc: 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County: 2% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc: 0% of income from government
- Artists Association of Nantucket Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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