Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Island Grown Initiative LTD
Island Grown Initiative LTD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,386,328 to it, the largest being THE HILLSIDE FOUNDATION INC ($3,825,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Island Grown Initiative LTD does
Mission
Island Grown Initiative (IGI) is a nonprofit that works to build a regenerative and equitable food system on Martha's Vineyard. We envision a strong local food system that strengthens the year-round island community, restores the environment, and ensures people can access the food they need with dignity. Founded in 2006, IGI is now deeply embedded in our Island culture and community. We provide food access to 1 in 5 year-round Islanders each year through our Island Food Pantry, educate all Island children ages 2-18 about food in our schools, and produce abundant food to help meet local food needs using regenerative farming methods at our 42-acre farm. We also work with many partners to move the overall Island food system in a regenerative and equitable direction through growing, sourcing, preparing, and distributing food as well as reducing food waste.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Food Equity: IGI operates the Island Food Pantry that has 3,883 registered clients. It also produces healthy, nutritious stews, soups, and meals which are frozen and distributed arount the Island to those with limited access to transportation or cooking facilities. They operate a summer lunch program to feed children and their families during the school vacation.The Island Grown Farm is dedicated to regenerative agricultural practices, and includes the operation of a 30,000 square-foot greenhouse with soil beds for year round production. There is also a community garden, orchard, and land that is licensed to local farmers.Island Grown schools operates educational programs from preschool to k-12 and supports school gardens where children receive hands-on learning. There are also educational programs for backyard growers and local gardeners in regenerative methods.
$3,561,844 spent$202,522 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,561,844.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $12M to $16M (+35%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2019 6% · 2020 10% · 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Island Grown Initiative LTD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Gail Arnold
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $564k → $5.6M.
28 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 Grown Initiative LTD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 funders by total. 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 Grown Initiative LTD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
56% 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 Grown Initiative LTD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 50% · 2019 38% · 2020 12% · 2021 18% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.
“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
53% of Island Grown Initiative LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
Island Grown Initiative LTD draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Against its field
Island Grown Initiative LTD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 605 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 605 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Island Grown Initiative LTD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $580k on record — $25k federal, $555k state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$25k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$555k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Island Grown Initiative LTD
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Island Grown Initiative LTD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Island Grown Initiative LTD?
- Island Grown Initiative LTD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,386,328 to it, the largest being THE HILLSIDE FOUNDATION INC ($3,825,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Island Grown Initiative LTD have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $17,386,328 in grants to Island Grown Initiative LTD, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Island Grown Initiative LTD?
- THE HILLSIDE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,825,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Island Grown Initiative LTD 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 115 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