· Private foundation
Appelbaum-Kahn Foundation Co Connolly Switaj Fogler & Co LLP
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of APPELBAUM-KAHN FOUNDATION CO CONNOLLY SWITAJ FOGLER & CO LLP’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| DONOR ADVISOR FUND | $11,000 |
| SITE SANTA FE | $5,000 |
| BERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $3,500 |
| COMMUNITY ACCESS TO ARTS | $3,000 |
| ROOTS RISING | $3,000 |
| BERKSHIRE GROWN | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BHBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +171%
- KFKCRW FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +9%
- IIIS183 INC6× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TETHE EMERLING-TORRES FAMILY FOUND DAone grant, 2024 · $32k
- TETHE EMERLING-AKF FOUNDATION DAFone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue -14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The berkshire international film festival (biff) is for filmmakers and film lovers alike to be entertained, educated and inspired. biff seeks to celebrate independent film and to recognize and pay tribute to accomplished artists on both…
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
The berkshire film and media collaborative (bfmc) creates educational, workforce and production opportunities in the film and media industry as an economic initiative for the western massachusetts region.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.
Our mission is to continue to develop and operate a permanent year-round market in boston and to support the farmers, fishers, and entrepreneurs who grow, catch, and produce local food, and to nourish our community with food and…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Museum of contemporary art santa barbara (mcasb) seeks to enrich lives and inspire critical thinking through meaningful engagement with the art and ideas of our time. mcasb provides santa barbara and the central coast with exhibitions and…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
Deeply rooted in our local beverly hills community and influenced by cultural change, the wallis annenberg center for the performing arts, a public-private partnership with the city of beverly hills, strives to be a site for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kcrw Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shark Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KCRW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IS183 INC ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS RISING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SITE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds SHARK FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HORSEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS ↗
- Who funds WAM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC IN COMMON INC ↗
- Who funds MALIBU FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Berkshire United Way Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Appelbaum-Kahn Foundation Co Connolly Switaj Fogler & Co LLP funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Berkshire Grown Inc — 66% of income from government
- Roots Rising Inc — 48% of income from government
- IS183 Inc — 13% of income from government
- Wam Theatre Inc — 9% of income from government
- Berkshire Music School Inc — 8% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.