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Vineyard Energy Project Inc

Vineyard Energy Project Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,700 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($110,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$14k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$136k
Net assets
$0
4/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Vineyard Energy Project Inc does

Mission

The Vineyard Energy Project is dedicated to meeting the needs for greater energy knowledge on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Vineyard Energy Project is also focused on education, advocacy and developing community-based solutions to the energy crisis.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Promotion, education and advocacy of renewable energy and solar panel installations.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($37k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 129 ($48k) Expenses 108 ($56k) Net assets 87 ($53k)2019 Revenue 156 ($58k) Expenses 99 ($52k) Net assets 97 ($60k)2020 Revenue 106 ($40k) Expenses 112 ($58k) Net assets 66 ($41k)2021 Revenue 39 ($14k) Expenses 113 ($59k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (39)Expenses (113)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $46k to $0 (−100%).

$66k
$57k
$64k
$46k
$0
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$15k
’17
−$8k
’18
$6k
’19
−$19k
’20
−$45k
’21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $200.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 Vineyard Energy Project Inc’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

Vineyard Energy Project Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 Vineyard Energy Project Inc.

81%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 73% · 2019 97% · 2020 67% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.

“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

40% of Vineyard Energy Project Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 FY2022, 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

88% of Vineyard Energy Project 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 $16k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.

NH
NY
MA

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Vineyard Energy Project Inc

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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

82%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Vineyard Energy Project 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Vineyard Energy Project Inc?
Vineyard Energy Project Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,700 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($110,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Vineyard Energy Project Inc have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $135,700 in grants to Vineyard Energy Project Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Vineyard Energy Project Inc?
Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Vineyard Energy Project 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 8 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