| ACE MV | Language Access | $ 19,000 | ACE MV Language Access & Equity Outreach Program, 2024-25 | To serve 160 multilingual and non-native-English speaking adult and young adult Island residents interested in further education/ and economic opportunities by expanding ESL class offerings and holding workshops to train people as facilitators and translators. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund, Biondi Family Fund for Children |
| Animal Shelter of Martha's Vineyard | Other Community Projects | $ 2,356 | Animal Shelter of Martha's Vineyard Rabies Clinic | To provide Island pets and their owners with rabies treatments and annual certifications during a daylong clinic at which 3 veterinarians will treat the animals. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Aquinnah Cultural Center | Educational Opportunity | $ 15,000 | Wôpanâak Education and Outreach Expansion | To support expansion of ACC's Wampanoag educational programming to Island students and their teachers as well as community education at locations across Martha's Vineyard. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| BiodiversityWorks | Environmental Initiatives | $ 6,315 | Community Science and Education for Bird Conservation | To create stations in the State Forest that will monitor birds during nesting season, and then offer field trips to local schools and possibly summer camps as well as the general public so that they can learn more about species on the Island. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Camp Jabberwocky | Accessibility | $ 14,000 | Scholarship Support for Campers from Martha's Vineyard | Scholarship support would ensure that campers from Martha's Vineyard can attend this unique camp for people with disabilities without financial burden to themselves or their families. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Chappaquiddick Community Center | Other Community Projects | $ 6,500 | Community Playground at the Chappaquiddick Community Center | The Chappy Community Center seeks to fill the need for inclusive outdoor play space on Chappaquiddick for approximately 25 year-round children and approximately 600 year-round and part-time residents. | General Discretionary Fund |
| Circuit Arts | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $ 10,000 | Circuit Arts After-School Performance & Media Classes | To expand youth arts programming through new after-school workshops in filmmaking, improvisation and theater for Island elementary, middle and high school students and will host a film production internship with its documentary unit Circuit Films. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Communication Ambassador Partnership of Martha's Vineyard, Inc. | Language Access | $ 15,000 | CAP Stepping Stones Mentorship and Interpreting Program: Benefitting Island Young Adults and Beyond | This program supports immigrant and first-generation young adults with their college and career pathways through a high school community interpreting course and mentorship. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Community Action Committee of Cape Cod and the Islands | Other Community Projects | $ 25,000 | Legal Assistance for Immigrants on Martha's Vineyard | Approximately 100 immigrants from Brazil, the Caribbean and eastern Europe will be served through free or low-cost legal clinics held twice a month with an on-Island attorney in order to facilitate citizenship, family unification, work authorization and other issues. | Emergency Response Fund |
| First Congregational Church of West Tisbury | Food Security | $ 15,000 | First Congregational Church: Community Meals and Food Outreach Program | To help expand the Community Meals program to increase the number of homebound, elderly and people in need who are served, including provision of meals to unhoused people at Harbor Homes, as well as implement a new food waste composting system. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Garden Gate Child Development Center, Inc. | Educational Opportunity | $ 5,270 | Increasing Diversity Through School Leadership; Year Two - Affirming Identity and Belonging | To deepen the school's engagement with the Island's Brazilian community and increase inclusive thinking and practices at the school. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Grace Church | Food Security | $ 8,000 | Grace Church Community Suppers | For creation of approximately 1,700 free meals available for community members to pick up and also to provide meals to the un-housed guests at Harbor Homes's shelter. | Kellman Family Fund, Martha's Vineyard Community Services - Driving the Future Fund, Alfred F. Ferro and Edward S. Redstone Fund for the Elderly of Tisbury |
| Great Pond Foundation | Environmental Initiatives | $ 6,500 | Resilient Ecosystem Mentorship | To increase the Island's environmental sustainability through support of a yearlong mentorship program for an environmental scientist engaged in scientific monitoring of the Island's ponds. | Island Fund for the Environment |
| Habitat for Humanity of Martha's Vineyard | Housing | $ 4,000 | Habitat for Humanity of Martha's Vineyard homes being built in West Tisbury and Oak Bluffs. | To purchase new tools to be used in the short-term for constructing 3 houses in Oak Bluffs and West Tisbury, and long term on future projects building houses for low-income families on the Vineyard. | Wallace & Co./Sotheby's Community Housing Fund |
| Harbor Homes | Housing | $ 25,000 | MV Cares Coalition | To support continuation of a new grassroots approach to supporting the Island's unhoused population through meals, medication, and other services during months when the homeless shelter is not open. | Emergency Response Fund, Wallace & Co./Sotheby's Community Housing Fund, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Health Imperatives, Inc. | Health Services | $ 20,000 | Martha's Vineyard Equity Now | To serve 125 women from the Island with health care services that they would not otherwise have access to because of being uninsured or under-insured. | James P. Cahen Fund, Katherine Harding Deeble Fund, Island Fund for Health |
| Healthy Aging Martha's Vineyard | Other Community Projects | $ 12,500 | On-island Transportation Solutions for MV's Older Adults | A request to support the “right sizing” of existing transportation programs and continue to ensure their financial sustainability while adding vital new cost-effective and sustainable options. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's Vineyard | Health Services | $ 15,500 | "Grief Support Phase II: School Based Grief Program and Family Grief Camp Healing" | Through school-based grief groups and a daylong family camp, Hospice will provide short-term therapeutic grief support services for children and adolescents as well as their family members or caregivers. | Emma MacKay Hall Fund, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Island Autism Group Inc | Accessibility | $ 10,000 | Island Autism Group (IAG) Afterschool and Summer Programs | To be used towards scholarship support for Islanders on the autism spectrum to participate in after-school and summer programs. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Island Community Chorus | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $ 2,000 | Musical Accompaniment for Island Community Chorus Performances | To assist the Chorus with the cost of hiring guest artists for its concerts at the Old Whaling Church in December 2024 and April 2025. | Island Fund for the Arts |
| Island Grown Initiative | Food Security | $ 11,000 | Island Food Pantry: SmartChoice Software | Through adoption of a data collection system for the Island's food pantry, IGI will create an easier process for users to order and pick up food as well as collect information about pantry visitors. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Island Housing Trust | Housing | $ 20,500 | Island Housing Trust Strategic Plan 2030 | By hiring a consultant to guide the organization through the process of establishing strategic goals, IHT will determine how it can build 150 new homes over the next 5 years. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund, Wallace & Co./Sotheby's Community Housing Fund |
| Islanders Write | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $ 3,000 | Islanders Write | To support the summertime festival bringing together Island-affiliated writers, readers and publishing industry representatives and expand the program through a March 2025 mini-fesival that will include student participation. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society | Environmental Initiatives | $ 6,000 | Programming and Support for Backyard Food Producers | To provide approximately 200 local backyard growers with workshops, a conference, and garden tours, with the goal of achieving climate change goals and addressing food security and local sustainability efforts. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club | Food Security | $ 20,000 | Beyond the Bell Food Security Program | To address food insecurity by providing out of schooltime snacks, prepared grab-and-go meals, fresh produce, non-perishable food items every day for racially and socially-diverse Island children who are living at or below poverty level. | I/Community, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Center for Living | Other Community Projects | $ 10,000 | Music, Movement and Meaning | To serve Islanders with dementia through individualized plans including arts, exercise and interactions to improve cognitive function. | Martha's Vineyard Community Services - Driving the Future Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $ 2,500 | Artist in Residence Focus on Folk Music | To continue the Artist in Resident program and enable Rasa String Quartet to travel to the Island in March 2025 and hold individual and group string instruction for Island students and also present a concert for families and a community concert. | Island Fund for the Arts |
| Martha's Vineyard Diversity Coalition | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $ 4,200 | Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Elders Oral History Project-MVDC Education Program (EdCo) | To record the voices, stories and history of Island BIPOC and immigrant elders, serving students, teachers, elders and community organizations through multicultural and intergenerational dialogue. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Fishermen's Preservation Trust | Food Security | $ 25,000 | Seafood Donation Program | Funding will enable Martha’s Vineyard Fishermen’s Preservation Trust seeks funding to support local fishermen by purchasing catch that is then processed in Menemsha and donated to food security programs at island organizations such as IGI, MV Boys & Girls Club and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Hospital | Health Services | $ 31,473 | Health Care for Islanders | helps pay for the medical expenses of families and individuals in need who have received care from the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital | Mayhew - Nevin Memorial Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc. | Educational Opportunity | $ 7,000 | Martha's Vineyard Museum Education Program Support | To support and supplement Martha’s Vineyard Museum's Education program as it grows alongside the community’s needs for engaging, relevant, and enjoyable educational experiences. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Ocean Academy | Educational Opportunity | $ 25,000 | Shenandoah Tuition Assistance 2025 | A grant would support tuition assistance for approximately 160 elementary and high school students from the Island to experience sailing and personal development experiences on the Shenandoah. | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group | Environmental Initiatives | $ 7,915 | Repair and rebuild of essential seawater pump at the John T. Hughes Hatchery | For the repair and rebuild of essential seawater pump at the John T. Hughes Hatchery | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund, |
| Mass Audubon / Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary | Accessibility | $ 5,000 | Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary’s All Persons Trail | To convert segments of existing trails and add a short section of new trail to create an ADA-compliant All Persons Trail for visitors of all abilities to enjoy. | General Discretionary Fund, Island Fund for the Environment |
| Misty Meadows Equine Learning Center | Accessibility | $ 15,000 | Full Accessibility at Misty Meadows | By renovating its restroom to make it ADA compliant, Misty Meadows will be able to fully serve the diverse populations it serves through partnerships with community organizations whose participants are elderly and/or disabled. | General Discretionary Fund |
| MV Mediation Program | Other Community Projects | $ 5,000 | Family Matters--Parent and Family Mediation Services | An award would support program expansion to serve 75 families through a process of increasing communication and facilitating decisionmaking. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Penikese Island School | Educational Opportunity | $ 5,000 | Penikese Island School Days | To help fund trips for Vineyard students (grades 4-8) to attend a "Penikese Island Discovery Day" field trip, a day of immersive, place-based learning, exploring the natural and historical wonders of a unique sister island. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Sail Martha's Vineyard | Accessibility | $ 7,500 | Sail Mobility | Sail MV seeks help to fund the ongoing development and delivery of its SailMobility program, the Island's only adaptive sailing program, so it can be provided free of charge to island residents aged 8 and older with mental and physical challenges. | The Joy Fund, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Sassafras Earth Education | Educational Opportunity | $ 6,500 | Sassafras Summer Camp 2025 Repair and Financial Aid Fund | This grant would fund full or partial financil aid to youth in need who will Summer Camp 2025 at Sassafras Earth Education, an indigenous Wôpanâak nonprofit in Aquinnah. | Lillian Hellman Recreational Fund, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| The Trustees of Reservations | Accessibility | $ 5,000 | Islands Accessibility | With key equipment purchases, such as a wheelchair accessible wagon and kayaks, the Trustees will provide equitable experiences at Long Point and the FARM Institute. | General Discretionary Fund |
| The Yard, Inc. | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $ 6,500 | Âs Nupumukâunean/We Still Dance developed by Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribal members & Danza Orgánica | For redevelopment and performances of We Still Dance, a contemporary evolution of the Wampanoag storytelling tradition, that will utilizing dance and music and place The Yard in collaboration with the Aquinnah Cultural Center, Wampanoag Tribal Members, and Danza Orgánica. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Vineyard Health Care Access Program / Dukes County | Health Services | $ 18,500 | Vineyard Smiles Adult Dental Clinic | The program will consist of 2 weeks of portable dental hygiene services for low income adults on the Vineyard who do not have access to routine dental care. | Island Fund for Health, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund, Emergency Response Fund |
| Vineyard House | Other Community Projects | $ 10,000 | Resident Support Advocates | A grant would support expanding the Resident Support Advocate program to include not just current residents and recent graduates but Islanders who are experiencing or have recently experienced relapse. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Vineyard Montessori School, Inc. | Educational Opportunity | $ 11,000 | Equitable Access Tuition Assistance (formerly known as Strong Start Scholarship) | Through the Equitable Access program, VMS will provide reduced tuition and scholarship support to approximately 25% of the families whose children are enrolled at the school. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| West Tisbury Library Foundation, Inc. | Language Access | $ 5,000 | Creating a Multi-Lingual Library | To support the library's ability to better serve the Island's Brazilian Portuguese speaking community through language instruction for staff and expanding the library's holdings available in Portuguese. | Kellman Family Fund, Island Fund for the Arts, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| YMCA of Martha's Vineyard | Accessibility | $12,500 | Enhancing Pool Safety and Accessibility | To expand accessibility for people with disabilities by replacing the pool's chair lift and installing push button systems for 3 locker room doors. | General Discretionary Fund, Martha's Vineyard Community Services - Driving the Future Fund |
