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ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC

ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,816 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($212,140). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2020
$1.7M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$546k
Net assets
$0
10/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Island Food Pantry of Martha's Vineyard Inc does

Mission

The island food pantry of martha's vineyard, inc.'s mission is to improve and sustain the quality of life in dukes county, massachusetts through the operation of a food pantry to provide temporary food and personal items as needed to prevent hunger.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

Program

Operation of a food pantry.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($283k) Expenses 100 ($166k) Net assets 100 ($176k)2019 Revenue 189 ($535k) Expenses 166 ($275k) Net assets 257 ($451k)2020 Revenue 597 ($1.7M) Expenses 270 ($449k) Net assets 0 ($0)
201820192020
Revenue (597)Expenses (270)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $452k to $0 (−100%).

$176k
$452k
$0
201820192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$117k
’18
$260k
’19
$1.2M
’20
7.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

201820192020
Listed71110
Joined·+5+0
No longer listed·11
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $36k → $20k.

11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC.

39%
largest funder
52%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 69% · 2020 23% · 2021 62% · 2022 60% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

10% of ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

74% of ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $141k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
PA
CT
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $405k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC?
ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,816 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($212,140). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $545,816 in grants to ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $212,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ISLAND FOOD PANTRY OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2018–2020), and the filings of 28 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing