· Public charity
Woods Hole Foundation Inc
The woods hole foundations purpose is to raise and distribute funds to tax-exempt, local organizations that enhance the quality of life and character of the woods hole and falmouth, massachusetts community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $67,028 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $148,083 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $81,055 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODS HOLE CHILD CENTER | $12,028 |
| WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,500 |
| WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $6,500 |
| BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC | $6,000 |
| WINGS FOR FALMOUTH FAMILIES | $5,000 |
| AIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD | $5,000 |
| HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST | $5,000 |
| WOODS HOLE HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +128% since the first grant, against +105% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- WHWOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY4× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +128%
- WHWOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $27k · revenue ×14
- HAHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION4× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- WHWOODS HOLE CHILD CENTERone grant, 2021 · $9k
- FPFALMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $9k
- BTBELONGING TO EACH OTHERone grant, 2021 · $6k
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 mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.
Educate, stimulate, research and provide affordable housing in the town of falmouth.
The 300 committee's mission is to preserve land in falmouth massachusetts and to raise awareness of the value of open space to the community
To provide non-profit housing rentals to low and moderate income families and families displaced from urban renewal areas.
Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…
Local cable programs by and for residents.
Provide low income elderly housing.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
Land conservation
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Belonging to Each Other Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woods Hole Child Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FARMING FALMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds Wings for Falmouth Families Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds CALMER CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER 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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Harken Foundation · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · First Citizens Charitable 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 Woods Hole Foundation Inc 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.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc — 33% of income from government
- Calmer Choice Inc — 14% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% 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.
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