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West Chop Community Fund Inc

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$224k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $219,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $224,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $169k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING$50,000
VINEYARD HOUSE INC$40,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST$37,000
SAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD$35,000
HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC$20,000
HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC$15,000
CIRCUIT ARTS INC$12,000
TISBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $20k → 8%HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $15k → 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 field
03the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 8 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV: $50,000 · EducationMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION A…SAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureSAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD I…CIRCUIT ARTS INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureCIRCUIT ARTS INCVineyard House Inc: $40,000 · HealthVineyard House IncMARTHA'S VINEYARD FISHERMEN'S PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $37,000 · EnvironmentMARTHA'S VINEYARD F…HEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHY AGING MART…HOSPICE OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC DBA HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF MARTHA'S: $15,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF MARTHA'…TISBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Other
Education$50,000Arts & Culture$47,000Health$40,000Environment$37,000Human Services$35,000Other$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV: $50,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetVineyard House Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSAIL MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $35,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHEALTHY AGING MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

Martha's Vineyard Ban…Martha's Vineyard Com…Rockland Trust Charit…Permanent Endowment F…Slough Farm FoundationTower Family Fund IncMutual Bancorp Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation IncMA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Permanent Endowment Fund for Martha's Vineyard · Slough Farm Foundation · Tower Family Fund Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 West Chop Community Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Chop Community Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's: 5% of income from government
  • Circuit Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to West Chop Community Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to West Chop Community Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 8 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 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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