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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.

$6.1M
Revenue FY2024
111
Funders on record
$17M
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
66/111 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 79%

Against its field

ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · above the median

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2018 Revenue 114 ($1.4M) Expenses 114 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2019 Revenue 139 ($1.7M) Expenses 123 ($1.5M) Net assets 104 ($4.1M)2020 Revenue 179 ($2.2M) Expenses 148 ($1.8M) Net assets 114 ($4.5M)2021 Revenue 290 ($3.6M) Expenses 198 ($2.4M) Net assets 187 ($7.4M)2022 Revenue 492 ($6.1M) Expenses 239 ($2.9M) Net assets 265 ($10M)2023 Revenue 571 ($7.1M) Expenses 250 ($3.1M) Net assets 365 ($14M)2024 Revenue 495 ($6.1M) Expenses 317 ($3.9M) Net assets 421 ($17M)
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Revenue (495)Expenses (317)Net assets (421)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,189 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
17
$1k
18
$200k
19
$390k
20
$1.1M
21
$3.1M
22
$4.0M
23
$2.2M
24
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

22%
largest funder
55%
top three
~9
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

VT
NH
MN
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
NM
DC
FL

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$25k
State$555k
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Top programs
  • (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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 7%Fundraising 10%

Governance

18
board members
94%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MA

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 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