Community & Impact Grant Recipients
2025 Grant Recipients
| Organization | Category | Amount | Project Title | Brief Description | Fund/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACE MV | Language Access | $ 19,000 | Minding the Gap: Career Pathway Opportunities and Advancement for English Language Learners | To expand workforce-focused ESL programs that equip English Language Learners with the skills needed to advance in healthcare, education, clean energy, and the trades. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Animal Shelter of Martha's Vineyard | Other Community Projects | $3,500 | Rabies Prevention Program | To offer a daylong rabies prevention clinic for Island pet owners and their pets in order to maintain a rabies-free Island. | Island Fund for Community |
| Aquinnah Cultural Center | Educational Opportunity | $21,000 | Wôpanâak Education and Outreach Expansion | To expand the program, ensuring students, educators, and community members have authentic access to Wampanoag history, culture, and contemporary perspectives, delivered through school programs, teacher development workshops, and community learning experiences. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts | Children's Services | $5,000 | One to One Mentoring on Martha's Vineyard | To offer 1:1 community-based mentorship for Islandwide youth by matching them with adult mentors. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| BiodiversityWorks | Environmental Initiatives | $6,000 | Snapshot USA Mammal Monitoring: Participatory Science, STEM, and Career Development | To support STEM and community-based science classes in Island middle schools through a reseach-based mammal monitoring project based in wildlife biology. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Camp Jabberwocky | Accessibility | $17,700 | Camp Jabberwocky Islandwide - Building Inclusion Through Collaboration | To support program service fees paid to Jabberwocky's Vineyard-based collaborators who are nonprofits and businesses providing campers with iconic Island experiences | The Joy Fund, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Cape Wellness Collaborative | Health Services | $9,000 | Wellness Care | To provide 44 Island cancer patients and their caregivers with Wellness Care services including integrative therapies, emotional support, nutritious meals, and movement programs. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Chilmark Preschool | Educational Opportunity | $7,500 | Play Structures for New Toddler Program at Chilmark Preschool | To purchase and install high-quality indoor and outdoor play structures for children who will be enrolled in the new toddler program to be implemented with the start of the 2026-2027 school year. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Circuit Arts | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $ 12,000 | Circuit Sound: The Music Division of Circuit Arts | To create a new program of music performances on the Island that will take place in venues other than bars and which will offer young musicians performance opportunities and the opportunity to pair with experienced musicians. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Communication Ambassador Partnership of Martha's Vineyard, Inc. | Language Access | $ 14,000 | CAP Stepping Stones Continuation and Enhancement | To support first-generation, multi-lingual high school students as they transition to college and career pathways by implementing a training for local community interpreting instructors. | 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 | To serve Vineyard-based immigrants from Brazil, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe through free or low-cost legal clinics held twice a month with an on-Island attorney to facilitate citizenship, family unification, work authorization and other issues. | Emergency Response Fund |
| Elder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands | Food Security | $14,000 | Martha's Vineyard Senior Nutrition Program | To provide Island seniors over the age of 60 with free, nutritionally-balanced meals that can be enjoyed in a social setting or as home-delivered Meals on Wheels. | Alfred F. Ferro and Edward S. Redstone Fund for the Elderly of Tisbury, Kellman Family Fund, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| First Congregational Church of West Tisbury | Food Security | $ 15,000 | First Congregational Church: Community Meals and Food Outreach Program | To expand the Community Meals program to increase the number of homebound, elderly, and people in need who are served by nourishing meals available for pick-up or through home deliveries, and to provide meals to the Harbor Homes homeless shelter | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Friends of Children's Cove | Children's Services | $2,500 | Digital Safety and Mindfulness for Vineyard Youth | To provide community presentations and discussion forums regarding online and technology safety, mindfulness, and citizenship in order to prevent online crimes committed against children. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Friends of MVY Radio | Other Community Projects | $3,000 | MVYRADIO Software System Upgrade | To replace and upgrade MVY Radio's computer hardware by purchasing and implementing Air Enco Automation, Studio Production, and Selector computer systems. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Garden Gate Child Development Center, Inc. | Educational Opportunity | $6,949 | Our Community of Belonging -- Nourishing Diversity in our Classrooms | To prioritize serving a diverse community through continued focus on ensuring an inclusive, developmentally appropriate environment for all members of the school community through Brazilian Portuguese translation, anti-bias literature and curriculum materials. | Martha's Vineyard Community Services -- Driving the Future Fund |
| Grace Church | Food Security | $ 10,000 | Grace Church Community Suppers | To create and serve free meals on a weekly basis to the unhoused, the unemployed, senior citizens, children, guests of the Harbor Homes winter shelter, and anyone else in need. | Emergency Response Fund |
| Harbor Homes | Housing | $ 25,000 | Food, Transportation and Support for HHMV Clients | To provide services for unhoused Islanders or those in danger of losing unhousing through services such as hotel respite, food assistance, and transportation assistance to medical appointments. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund, Wallace & Co./Sotheby's Community Housing Fund |
| Health Imperatives, Inc. | Health Services | $25,000 | Martha's Vineyard Equity Now | To provide health care and nutrition assistance to 125 local residents who are unable to meet their basic needs, including low-income women, infants, and children, and people who do not have comprehensive health insurance. | James P. Cahen Fund, Katherine Harding Deeble Fund, Island Fund for Health, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Healthy Aging Martha's Vineyard | Elder Services | $11,000 | Older Adult On-Demand Transportation Program: Go-Go Grandparent | To continue funding for GoGoGrandparent, an on-demand transportation program for senior citizens that offers a concierge telephone service to provide rides via Uber and Lyft. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's Vineyard | Health Services | $ 10,500 | Guiding Children through Grief, Supporting Families, and Advancing Professional Education | To address the needs of children experiencing grief and anxiety by providing grief camps, compassionate intervention, and to provide training for the social workers and counselors who provide those services. | Emma MacKay Hall Fund, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Island Autism Group Inc | Accessibility | $14,500 | Island Autism Group (IAG) Afterschool and Summer Programs | To fund scholarships for young people with autism who are from low-income Island families so that they can participate in after-school and summer programs. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Island Children's School | Educational Opportunity | $11,000 | The Whole Child Fund | To subsidize tuition for four children from low-income Island families whose enrollment at ICS is in danger because of federal cuts to their tuition subsidies. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Island Community Chorus | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $ 2,000 | Guest Artists Enriching Island Community Chorus Performances | To support the Chorus's ability to hire professional soloists and instrumentalists, local and nonlocal, to enhance and enrich the quality of music performed for Vineyard audiences. | Island Fund for the Arts |
| Island Elderly Housing | Elder Services | $10,000 | Hillside Village Generator | To purchase a generator that would be used at Hillside Village in the event of a power outtage. | Martha's Vineyard Community Services - Driving the Future Fund |
| Island Grown Initiative | Food Security | $15,000 | IGI Local and Regional Food Sourcing | To boost local and regional food sourcing for the prepared meals program while establishing pathways for other Island organizations and institutions to buy more from Island and regional farms. | Emergency Response Fund, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Islanders Write | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $ 3,000 | Islanders Write | To produce Islanders Write events taking place at Featherstone during March and August 2026 and to launch new initiative that will bring Islanders Write into local schools. | Island Fund for the Arts |
| Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $4,750 | Mariposa Museum Tech | To purchase technical equipment that will support program expansion. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society | Environmental Initiatives | $12,000 | Building Community Food Security Through Backyard Grower Education | To expand workshops and events for backyard growers and launch new/expanded initiatives: a series of hands-on workshops on sustainable and local living and a monthly Backyard Growers Club meeting. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club | Food Security | $24,000 | 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. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Cancer Support Group | Health Services | $7,000 | Growing Our Impact: A Database to Support the Island Community | To implement a customer support database so that volunteers can better track services being provided to cancer patients and survivors on the Vineyard. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Center for Living | Elder Services | $12,000 | Respite Innovations Volunteer Visiting Program | To enhance and expand the respite care program for caregivers of people with dementia by adding evening and weekend hours, and to recruit, train and supervise volunteers providing the respite care services. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $3,000 | Music Education and Community Engagement | To bring a string ensemble to teach in the public schools and provide a free community concert. | Island Fund for the Arts |
| Martha's Vineyard Diversity Coalition | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $4,000 | MV Living Legends | To create a multicultural, intergenerational dialogue by engaging high school students to assist with creating an oral history of the lives of BIPOC and diverse elder Islanders and which will be accessible at schools, libraries, museums and community organizations. | Island Fund for Community |
| Martha's Vineyard Fishermen's Preservation Trust | Food Security | $24,960 | Seafood Donation Program | To support local fishermen by purchasing catch that is processed in Menemsha as well as address food security by donating the local catch to Island organizations such as IGI, MV Boys & Girls Club and the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah, and local schools. | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Hospital | Health Services | $31,800 | Health Care for Islanders | To help 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 | $5,000 | 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 | $21,500 | Shenandoah Tuition Assistance 2026 | To provide tuition assistance to MV students in elementary, middle, and high school so they will gain access to a shipboard positive youth development program that fosters growth through hands-on, experiential learning aboard the Shenandoah. | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group | Environmental Initiatives | $12,000 | Historic Hughes Hatchery Renovation and Expanded Seed Capacity | To expand the hatchery's capacity and increase the resilience of the Vineyard oyster aquaculture industry by extending the existing seawater system and hatchery infrastructure and implementing season-extending microalgal production technology. | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Mass Audubon / Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary | Accessibility | $ 5,040 | Felix Neck All Persons Trail Bird Blind Renovations | To renovate an existing bird blind that will be part of the new ADA-compliant All Persons Trail (APT), as part of Felix Neck's commitment to making nature and its health benefits accessible to all. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Misty Meadows Equine Learning Center | Accessibility | $6,500 | Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy | To introduce equine-facilitated psychotherapy as a new therapeutic treatment option for community members whose struggles with behavioral and/or mental health are adversely impacting their lives. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| MV Mediation Program | Other Community Projects | $ 5,000 | Youth and Family Matters: Growing Together | To support expansion of youth conflict resolution programming into sixth-grade classrooms while sustaining the Family Matters mediation services, together fostering more resilient family units on the Island. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Penikese Island School | Educational Opportunity | $7,500 | Penikese Island School Days | To offer Vineyard middle-school students with the opportunity to experience place-based learning fosters scientific curiosity, environmental awareness, and social-emotional growth. | Island Fund for Community, Island Fund for the Environment, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Sail Martha's Vineyard | Educational Opportunity | $7,500 | Summer Sailing and Windsurfing Program | To support and expand Sail MV's Summer sailing and windsurfing program, which provides free beginner sailing and windsurfing classes to Island students. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Sassafras Earth Education | Educational Opportunity | $7,000 | Summer Camp 2026 Repair and Financial Aid Fund | To provide partial or full tuition support to Island Wôpanâak, BIPOC and other youth attending the 2026 Summer Camp. | Lillian Hellman Recreational Fund, Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| The Great Blizzards of Massachusetts Special Hockey | Accessibility | $8,000 | Special Hockey Program | To teach life skills and soft skills to children ages 4 and older who have cognitive, physical, intellectual or developmental disabilities through participation in a hockey team. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| The Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $2,000 | Fellowships for Island Residents and Wampanoag Writers | To fund 2 fellowships for Island residents and writers of Wampanoag descent so that they can participate in the Summer 2026 conference. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| The United Methodist Church of Martha’s Vineyard | Food Security | $3,000 | United Methodist Church of MV Community Supper Program | To fund food procurement for the annual wintertime Community Supper Program. | Martha's Vineyard Community Services - Driving the Future Fund |
| Vineyard Conservation Society | Environmental Initiatives | $5,000 | Vineyard Lawns | To implement hands-on workshops, clear guidance developed with landscapers, and the final Great Ponds film so that Islanders transform lawns into meadows, buffers, and walkable alternatives that protect ponds, restore habitat, and build a culture of stewardship. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Vineyard Health Care Access Program / Dukes County | Health Services | $23,750 | Vineyard Smiles Adult Dental Hygiene Program | To sponsor 10 days or 2 weeks of dental hygiene clinics in February and April of 2026 to provide essential clinical oral health services to low-income Islanders with limited access to dental care. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Vineyard House | Other Community Projects | $ 10,000 | Clean Steps Family Room | To replace the damaged carpet in the family room of the Women's House with durable, easy-to-clean LVT flooring to create a fresh, welcoming, and healthy space | Wallace & Co./Sotheby's International Realty Community Housing Fund |
| Vineyard Montessori School, Inc. | Educational Opportunity | $10,000 | Equitable Access Grants for Tuition Assistance | To provide Island children and their families with tuition assistance and access to education. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Vineyard Preservation Trust | Arts & Cultural Enrichment | $6,000 | Independence Now & Forever: The American Revolution on Martha’s Vineyard | To support school field trips, educational programs and community programs in conjunction with an interactive exhibit at the Vincent House that will explore the American Revolution, its commemorations, and impact on American identity. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| West Tisbury Library Foundation, Inc. | Other Community Projects | $ 5,000 | Resilient Libraries, Resilient Communities | To support increased activities on community resilience and disaster readiness for the impacts of climate crisis, social justice issues, and skills for endurance and flexibility. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
2024 Grant Recipients
| Organization | Category | Amount | Project Title | Brief Description | Fund/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Commission | Other | $ 25,000 | To support survey and analysis of the Islandwide effort to create affordable housing options. | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund | |
| 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 |
2023 Grant Recipients
| Organization | Category | Amount | Brief Description | Fund |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACE MV | Educational Opportunities | $20,000 | Language Access Cohort Learning, focusing on medical interpreting/translation | Migrant Relief Fund / Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Aquinnah Cultural Center | Other Community Groups | $1,000 | awarded to during the Creative Living Award Ceremony from the Philanthropy Raffle prize | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Camp Jabberwocky | Other Community Groups | $10,000 | Camp Jabberwocky scholarships for Island residents | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Circuit Arts | Arts Enrichment | $10,000 | MV Children's Theater Camp Scholarships for Island Residents | Island Fund for the Arts / Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Communication Ambassador Partnership (CAP) | Educational Opportunities | $19,000 | Stepping Stones Mentorship, matching first-generation immigrant students with volunteer mentors to help them navigate life, career, and higher education after graduation | General Discretionary Fund / Migrant Relief Fund / Vineyard Unrestricted Fund / |
| First Congregational Church of West Tisbury | Food Security | $10,000 | Community Meals and Food Outreach Program | Emergency Response Fund / Kellman Family Fund |
| Friends of MVY Radio | Arts Enrichment | $2,000 | Radio Games After-School Program for Junior High Students | General Discretionary Fund / Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Friends of Sengekontacket | Environmental Initiatives | $2,000 | Summer Intern Program | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Garden Gate Child Development Center | Educational Opportunities | $6,000 | Diversity, Inclusion, Equity & Accessibility Project: Increasing Diversity Through School Leadership | General Discretionary Fund |
| Great Pond Foundation | Environmental Initiatives | $13,000 | Nitrogen Reduction Education Campaign: Forego Fertilizer, Protect Ponds | Island Fund for the Environment / Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Harbor Homes of MV | Housing Resources | $25,000 | Tashmoo House Upgrades and Repairs | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Havenside Corporation | Housing Resources | $9,350 | Havenside Aging In Place Shower Conversions for Older Adults | Wallace & Co. Sotheby's International Realty Community Housing Fund |
| Health Imperatives | Direct Health Services | $20,000 | "Martha's Vineyard Equity Now,” a initiative to provide free sexual and reproductive health services to un-or-under-insured women on Martha's Vineyard | General Discretionary Fund / James P. Cahen Fund / Migrant Relief Fund |
| Healthy Aging MV | Other Community Groups | $25,000 | GoGoGrandparents transportation program for older adults | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's Vineyard | Direct Health Services | $9,340 | Community Grief Support for Children, Adolescents, and Families on Martha's Vineyard | Emma MacKay Hall Fund / Island Fund for Health |
| Island Autism Group | Other Community Groups | $15,000 | Island Autism Group Afterschool and Summer Programs | MV Community Services' Driving the Future Fund / Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Island Community Chorus | Arts Enrichment | $3,000 | Island Community Chorus Holiday & Spring Concerts | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Island Grown Initiative | Educational Opportunities | $10,000 | Cooking in the Schools | Wendy Weisman Jenkinson Culinary Arts Fund |
| Islanders Write | Arts Enrichment | $1,500 | Islanders Write 2024, bringing writers and publishing professionals with ties to the Vineyard together to explore the art, craft, and business of writing through writing workshops, panel discussions, and author signings | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Lagoon Pond Association | Environmental Initiatives | $2,000 | 2024 Internship Program | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society | Educational Opportunities | $8,000 | Farmworker Training and Education Series | Island Fund for Community / Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club | Educational Opportunities | $5,000 | Out-of-School Learning and After-School Programs at the Club | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Cancer Support Group | Direct Health Services | $10,000 | Emergency Financial Assistance to Islanders Undergoing Cancer Treatment | Emergency Response Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society | Arts Enrichment | $3,500 | Artist in Residence: Jazz for Strings | Island Fund for the Arts |
| Martha's Vineyard Fishermen's Preservation Trust | Food Security | $25,000 | Seafood Donation Program | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Hospital | Direct Health Services | $31,000 | To help Island residents pay medical bills | Mayhew-Nevin Memorial Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Museum | Educational Opportunities | $10,000 | MVM Education Programs | MV Community Services' Driving the Future Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Ocean Academy | Educational Opportunities | $10,000 | 2024 Shenandoah Student Tuition Assistance | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group | Environmental Initiatives | $19,800 | Seawater intake repairs at the Hughes Hatchery | General Discretionary Fund / Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Mass Audobon / Felix Neck | Educational Opportunities | $5,000 | Fern & Feather Preschool and Camp Play Yard Upgrades | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Misty Meadows Equine Learning Center | Other Community Groups | $12,400 | "Forging New Paths," equine therapy programs with Island Elderly Housing, Island Autism, and Kinship Heals | Alfred F. Ferro and Edward S. Redstone Fund for the Elderly of Tisbury / MV Community Services' Driving the Future Fund / Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Penikese Island School | Educational Opportunities | $7,000 | Penikese Discovery Day Field Trips for Island Students | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund / Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Sail Martha's Vineyard | Educational Opportunities | $10,000 | Summer Sailing Camp tuition assistance for Island students | General Discretionary Fund / Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Sassafras Earth Education | Educational Opportunities | $9,000 | Financial Aid support for Wôpanâak youth to attend its summer camp and after-school programs | Lillian Hellman Recreational Fund / Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Vineyard Health Care Access Program | Direct Health Services | $8,750 | Vineyard Smiles Adult Dental Clinic | Katherine Harding Deeble Fund / Island Fund for Health |
| Vineyard House | Housing Resources | $10,000 | "Clean Start" Program Upgrades which provides housing for Island men and women in need of a safe structured living environment while they are in the early stages of recovery from alcohol and drug addiction | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Vineyard Independence Partnership | Arts Enrichment | $2,400 | Art Training and Enrichment Classes | Joy Fund |
| Vineyard Montessori School | Educational Opportunities | $18,000 | Strong Start Scholarship Program | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| West Tisbury Library Foundation | Arts Enrichment | $4,000 | Community Room A/V Upgrades | Kellman Family Fund |
2022 Grant Recipients
| Organization | Category | Amount | Description | Fund |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquinnah Cultural Center | Community | $10,000 | Aquinnah Wampanoag Island Outreach Project | Island Fund for the Community, Lillian Hellman Recreational Fund |
| BiodiversityWorks | Environment | $7,500 | "Invasive Plant Brigade" program | Island Fund for the Environment |
| Camp Jabberwocky | Health | $10,000 | Scholarships for Island residents | General Discretionary Fund |
| Circuit Arts (previously MV Film Festival) | Community | $7,500 | Schoolwide Filmmaking Project | Island Fund for the Arts |
| Communications Ambassador Partnership | Community | $19,740 | Language access programs at the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School and across the Island | Emergency Response / Urgent Needs Fund |
| Featherstone Center for the Arts | Arts | $4,000 | Literary arts at Featherstone and this year's Slough Farm writer's residency | Island Fund for the Arts |
| First Congregational Church of West Tisbury | Community | $10,000 | Community Suppers program | General Discretionary Fund, Kellman Family Fund |
| FUEL | Community | $8,500 | Tuition assistance for Martha's Vineyard students aboard SHENANDOAH | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Garden Gate Child Development Center | Community | $2,260 | "Creating Studios of Learning" program | Emma MacKay Hall Fund |
| Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard | Community | $25,000 | To provide emergency shelter for individuals who are homeless | Wallace & Co. Sotheby's International Realty Community Housing Fund, Rental Relief Fund |
| Health Imperatives of Martha's Vineyard | Health | $15,000 | "Martha's Vineyard Equity Now,” a initiative to provide free sexual and reproductive health services to un-or-under-insured women on Martha's Vineyard | Mayhew-Nevin Memorial Fund, James P. Cahen Fund |
| Healthy Aging MV | Community | $15,000 | GoGoGrandparents transportation program | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's Vineyard | Health | $9,831 | To fund child and adolescent bereavement education for HPCMV clinicians | Martha's Vineyard Community Services’ Driving the Future Fund, James P. Cahen Fund |
| Island Elderly Housing | Community | $7,124 | Phase 2 of the accessible Community Garden | Wallace & Co. Sotheby’s International Realty Community Housing Fund |
| Island Grown Initiative | Community | $15,000 | Educational cooking programs for Martha's Vineyard students | Wendy Weisman Jenkinson Culinary Arts Fund |
| Island Health Care | Health | $22,611.20 | Islandwide Produce Prescription Project | Massachusetts' Community Foundation Grant for Covid-19 Relief |
| Lagoon Pond Association | Environment | $5,000 | 2023 Internship program | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Penikese Island School | Environment | $5,000 | "Discovery Day" field trips for Vineyard students to Penikese Island | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club | Community | $10,000 | After school programs at the Club | General Discretionary Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society | Arts | $3,000 | Quintango artist in residence program | Kellman Family Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Public Charter School | Arts | $10,000 | The Drama Club's participation in the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Commission | Environment | $9,300 | Phase II of the Pilot Sengekontacket Salt Marsh Migration Project | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Museum | Arts | $7,500 | Oral History Preservation Project | Harriet N. Goldberg Fund |
| Martha's Vineyard Playhouse | Arts | $5,000 | Workshop and production of the play: Miss Maybelline's Nocturnal Flights of Fancy | Island Fund for the Arts |
| Mass Audubon's Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary | Environment | $7,200 | Accessibility efforts and the "Nature Access for All" program | Joy Fund, Katherine Harding Deeble Memorial Fund |
| Misty Meadows Equine Learning Center | Health | $7,500 | "Increasing Access" campaign, including "outreach to the Brazilian student population" | Island Fund for Health, Katherine Harding Deeble Memorial Fund, Alfred F. Ferro and Edward S. Redstone Fund |
| MVCET (previously ACE MV) | Community | $5,000 | Early Childhood Education programs offered through MV Community College Consortium | Island Fund for the Community |
| MV Mediation | Health | $8,500 | Youth Mediation and Conflict Resolution Programs | Martha's Vineyard Community Services' Driving the Future Fund, Island Fund for Health |
| MVYRADIO | Arts | $3,000 | "Radio Games" after school program | Island Fund for Community |
| Red Stocking Fund | Community | $7,500 | To provide warm winter clothes to 300 children on Martha’s Vineyard | Vineyard Unrestricted Fund |
| Sheriff's Meadow Foundation | Environment | $2,500 | TrailsMV app upgrades and development | Island Fund for the Environment |
| Vineyard Montessori School | Community | $10,000 | Strong Start scholarship program | General Discretionary Fund |
| The Yard | Arts | $7,500 | "Dance in the Schools" program | Island Fund for the Arts |
| Martha's Vineyard Hospital | Health | $20,196 | To help Island residents pay medical bills | Mayhew-Nevin Memorial Fund |
| Rental Relief Fund | Community | $3,000 | Rental relief for market rate renters | Wallace & Co. Sotheby’s International Realty Community Housing Fund |