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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.

$509k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$336k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$62kArts & Culture$52kHuman Services$47kEducation$41kFood & Nutrition$22kReligion$16kHealth$10kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $361,236, the rows itemized in this filing. The $508,671 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $147,435 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
  • $250k+1 grant · $336k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$335,736
WOODS HOLE CHILD CENTER INC$12,000
BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC$8,000
WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST INC: $13k → 8%WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $7k → 8%WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $336k → 8%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION INC: $5k → 11%BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $9k → 8%WOODS HOLE CHILD CENTER: $12k → 8%BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $8k → 8%WOODS HOLE CHILD CENTER INC: $12k → 8%BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $6k → 8%FALMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY: $9k → 8%FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST: $5k → 8%WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $8k → 8%FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 8%WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $8k → 8%HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORP: $8k → 8%WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $7k → 8%HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORP: $6k → 8%FARMING FALMOUTH: $6k → 8%HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORP: $5k → 8%WOODS HOLE CHILD CENTER: $6k → 8%AIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD: $5k → 8%BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $6k → 8%HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $5k → 8%CHURCH OF MESSIAH: $6k → 8%CALMER CHOICE: $5k → 8%WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6k → 8%FARMING FALMOUTH: $10k → 8%WOODS HOLE HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5k → 8%FARMING FALMOUTH: $6k → 8%PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL: $5k → 8%WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 8%FRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT: $5k → 8%WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 8%WOODS HOLE HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5k → 8%WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL: $5k → 8%WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 8%WOODS HOLE HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$558k · 11 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +128% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$558k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+128%
+30%

Still filing today

91%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHousing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • WH
    WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $362k · revenue ×14
  • WH
    WOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +128%
  • WH
    WOODS HOLE CHILD CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • WH
    WOODS HOLE CHILD CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
  • FP
    FALMOUTH PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
  • CO
    CHURCH OF MESSIAH
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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
Falmouth Historical Society Inc

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.

Unclassified
2
Falmouth Housing Corporation

Educate, stimulate, research and provide affordable housing in the town of falmouth.

Housing & Shelter
3
The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc

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

Environment
4
Plymouth Non-Profit Housing Corporation

To provide non-profit housing rentals to low and moderate income families and families displaced from urban renewal areas.

Housing & Shelter
5
Framingham History Center Inc

Collections of the town's historical development are shared with the community by exhibits, presentations, and other activities.

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6
Nantucket Community Service Inc

Provide low income elderly housing.

—
7
Falmouth Community Television Corp

Local cable programs by and for residents.

Arts & Culture
8
Oyster Pond Environmental Trust Inc

Land conservation

Environment
9
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
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10
Worcester Common Ground Inc

To establish and maintain housing for low and moderate income families in the Worcester area. Worcester Common Ground also provides income eligible individuals the opportunity to be homeowners.

Housing & Shelter
11
Monadnock Affordable Housing Corporation

Provide affordable housing to low-income persons and management and maintenance services for low-income housing projects.

Housing & Shelter
12
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Falmouth Service Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $362,436 · OtherWOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INCFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST: $17,500 · Other+14 more: $85,516 · Other+14 moreWOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $33,180 · EducationWOODS HOLE …WOODS HOLE CHILD CENTER INC: $30,228 · EducationWOODS HOLE …BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $28,826 · Housing & ShelterBELONGING…HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $23,324 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING A…FARMING FALMOUTH INC: $22,022 · Food & NutritionWings for Falmouth Families Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$465,452Education$63,408Housing & Shelter$52,150Food & Nutrition$22,022Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOODS HOLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $362,436 over 5y, 18% of budgetWOODS HOLE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $33,180 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetWOODS HOLE CHILD CENTER INC: $30,228 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $28,826 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $23,324 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFARMING FALMOUTH INC: $22,022 over 3y, 10% of budgetFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWings for Falmouth Families Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALMER CHOICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Cape Cod Foundation I…Martha's Vineyard Ban…Stanley W Watson Foun…Eastern Bank Foundati…Edward Bangs Kelley a…Cape & Coast Bank Fou…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Rockland Trust Charit…Harken FoundationCape Cod Healthcare I…Lyndon Paul Lorusso C…First Citizens Charit…
Cape Cod Foundation IncMA28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Woods Hole Foundation 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 24 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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