Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD
ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,211,328 to it, the largest being THE HILLSIDE FOUNDATION INC ($3,825,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Stonehouse Inclocal
- UNFI Foundationportfolio match
- Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agyportfolio match
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.
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $564k → $5.6M.
27 of 111 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 111 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
54% of ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 83% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 19 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 12 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 111 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Stonehouse InclocalMA · funds 17 organizations near you
- UNFI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Sustainability and Innovationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arthur Skodnek Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Martha and Hunter Grubb Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatioshared fundersMA · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Dmr Family Foundation InclocalMA · funds 19 organizations near you
- West Chop Community Fund InclocalMA · funds 7 organizations near you
- Rockinghorse Trail FoundationlocalMA · funds 11 organizations near you
- Salvatore Giordano FoundationlocalFL · funds 8 organizations near you
- Alden Charitable Foundation InclocalCT · funds 12 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
77%
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD?
- ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD (Massachusetts) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,211,328 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 111 organizations giving $17,211,328 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 111funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing