Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,616,568 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($442,350). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $636k
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $716k
What Nantucket Sustainable Development Corporation does
Mission
To cultivate a sustainable nantucket island community by supporting local agriculture, food producers and makers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Mentor farmer program - is designed to increase overall sustainable agricultural production and distribution on the island. Sn is expanding the production and island wide access to locally grown food by providing land and infrastructure to our current farmers.
$293,179 spent73% of program spendingFarm to school - teaches lifetime lessons to island children in nutrition and environmental stewardship through the hands-on process of growing, harvesting, cooking and eating food in the garden, greenhouse, farm fields, classroom and cafeteria.
$54,850 spent14% of program spendingFarmers and artisans market - to support and strengthen the industry of agriculture; to support the local economy and encourage entrepreneurs, to help keep downtown vital and to enhance our experience of community. Raise awareness of and demand for locally grown food. Provide island farmers and artisans with a venue to connect to community.
$42,512 spent11% of program spendingOur nantucketgrown brand promotes and supports the consumption of locally grown food, making it easy for consumers to identify food that has been grown, processed, and distributed on the island. Nantucketgrown raises awareness about the benefits of sourcing food locally while strengthening our island's food system. By choosing nantucketgrown, residents and visitors alike support local farmers, sustain our community's agricultural heritage, and enjoy the freshest ingredients nantucket has to offer.
$8,729 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $399,270.
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 $348k to $589k (+69%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (38% 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
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
Randy Hudson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $102k → $315k.
8 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
68% 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 NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 37% · 2019 38% · 2020 32% · 2021 25% · 2022 27% · 2023 22% — 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
47% of NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
65% of NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION'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 $571k that is directly attributable, 85% 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. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,837 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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 NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,616,568 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($442,350). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $1,616,568 in grants to NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $442,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NANTUCKET SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 65 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing