Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 126 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,731,257 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,937,495). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- Cape Cod Foundation Incshared funders
- Stonehouse Incportfolio match
- Brennan Family Charitable Trust Incportfolio 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 39% · 2018 34% · 2019 32% · 2020 23% · 2021 38% · 2022 42% · 2023 33% · 2024 26% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
68% of MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $273k → $2.3M.
28 of 126 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $425k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc Successor To). These are real filings, and they are not money MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 126 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
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
70% 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 COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 33% · 2019 16% · 2020 49% · 2021 15% · 2022 13% · 2023 21% — 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
37% of MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
55% of MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 $6.7M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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 126 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cape Cod Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Stonehouse Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brennan Family Charitable Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- President and Fellows of Harvard Collegeshared fundersMA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 133 organizations that share your funders
- Essex County Community Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 85 organizations that share your funders
- Liberty Mutual Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 93 organizations that share your funders
- United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Incshared fundersMA · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New Yorkshared fundersNY · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Fjcshared fundersNY · backs 126 organizations that share your funders
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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.4M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$612k
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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: 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 MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 126 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,731,257 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,937,495). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 126 organizations giving $14,731,257 in grants to MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,937,495 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 126funders 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