· Private foundation
Appelbaum-Kahn Foundation Co Connolly Switaj Fogler & Co LLP
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ROOTS RISING | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACCESS TO ARTS | $3,000 |
| BERKSHIRE GROWN | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 SITE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Appelbaum-Kahn Foundation Co Connolly Switaj Fogler & Co LLP funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Appelbaum-Kahn Foundation Co Connolly Switaj Fogler & Co LLP. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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