Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP
MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,322 to it, the largest being MARGARET S LINDSAY FOUNDATION OF 1989 ($60,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $99k
- Net assets
- $152k
What Martha's Vineyard Cancer Support Group does
Mission
We are the Martha's Vineyard Cancer Support Group, a group for cancer patients, survivors, their families, friends, and caregivers. If you are here you are in the right place. Cancer patients often need financial assistance as well as emotional support. That's why the non-profit m.v. Cancer support group inc. Was created. One of our aims is to enhance the quality of life for vineyard cancer patients, survivors, and their families, by providing temporary and emergency financial assistance. The funds we provide are used for expenses not covered by insurance. We also provide information about resources available to vineyard cancer patients on the island and elsewhere in new england. If you have cancer, or if you care about someone who does, you should know about the m.v. Cancer support group. Help and support for you and your loved ones is just a phone call....or a meeting away. There is value in joining a support group. Research studies indicate that cancer patients in support groups liv
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We are the Martha's Vineyard Cancer Support Group, a group for cancer patients, survivors, their families, friends, and caregivers. If you are here you are in the right place. Cancer patients often need financial assistance as well as emotional support. That's why the non-profit m.v. Cancer support group inc. Was created. One of our aims is to enhance the quality of life for vineyard cancer patients, survivors, and their families, by providing temporary and emergency financial assistance. The funds we provide are used for expenses not covered by insurance. We also provide information about resources available to vineyard cancer patients on the island and elsewhere in new england. If you have cancer, or if you care about someone who does, you should know about the m.v. Cancer support group. Help and support for you and your loved ones is just a phone call....or a meeting away. There is value in joining a support group. Research studies indicate that cancer patients in support groups live longer and have a better quality of life. In 1986, a group of island patients began to meet regularly to share their experience, strength, and hopes. They became the original Martha's Vineyard…
$120,118 spentof which $104,494 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,118.
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 2024 to 2025, from $118k to $152k (+29%).
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.
100% of MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $23k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP’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
MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 95% · 2022 92% · 2023 43% — 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
57% of MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
93% of MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP?
- MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,322 to it, the largest being MARGARET S LINDSAY FOUNDATION OF 1989 ($60,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $99,322 in grants to MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP?
- MARGARET S LINDSAY FOUNDATION OF 1989 is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP 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.
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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 10 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