· Private foundation
Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k407 grants · $999k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMON CAPITAL INC | $33,333 |
| GREENPATH INC | $30,000 |
| ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $25,000 |
| MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED | $25,000 |
| MCLA FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC | $25,000 |
| WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPP FUND | $25,000 |
| BERKSHIRE FAMILY YMCA INC | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $25,000 |
| QUINEBAUG VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FNDTN | $25,000 |
| WORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC | $25,000 |
| WESTFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $25,000 |
| SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
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.
472 repeat relationships — 252 still active in FY2024, 220 since wound down; 179 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $611k 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
- BUBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $110k · revenue +11%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CENTRAL BERKSHIRE2× · 2022–2023 · $99k · revenue +55%
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
- HFHabitat for Humanity Greater Lowellone grant, 2019 · $50k
- UFUKRAINIAN FEDERATION OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The worcester business development corporation (wbdc) is a private, non- profit business organization with a public purpose mission to serve as an innovation and leading force in the economic development of the city of worcester and the…
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
The Massachusetts High Technology Council, Inc. is an organization of CEOs andsenior executives representing technology companies, professional services firms,and research institutions who are dedicated to creating and sustaining…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
To strengthen and grow the berkshire economy using an innovative collaborative approach among the region's business, tourism, economic, and creative development efforts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mill Town Private Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
350 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. 350 of the 1,561 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CENTRAL BERKSHIRE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds REVITALIZE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAY FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER REGIONAL RESEARCH BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust
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 Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc 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.
- Employment Options Inc — 100% of income from government
- 1BERKSHIRE Strategic Alliance Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc — 95% of income from government
- Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
- Berkshire County Arc Inc — 90% of income from government
- Bridgewell Inc — 85% of income from government
- Soldier On Inc — 83% of income from government
- Disability Policy Consortium Inc — 81% of income from government
- Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Mental Health Association Inc — 66% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- Springfield Day Nursery Corporation — 61% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Open Sky Community Services Inc — 48% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- Railroad Street Youth Project Inc — 45% of income from government
- Gladys Allen Brigham Community Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Midas Collaborative Inc — 39% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Baseball in the Berkshires Inc — 34% of income from government
- Second Street Second Chances Inc — 33% of income from government
- Valley Venture Mentoring Service Inc — 32% of income from government
- Common Capital Inc — 30% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley — 30% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Christopher House Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Hillcrest Educational Centers Inc — 21% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc — 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Fenway Community Center at Viridian Inc — 15% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sojourner House Inc — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Lever Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Community Action Council Inc — 8% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Tech Foundry Inc — 6% of income from government
- Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
- IS183 Inc — 6% of income from government
- Roots Rising Inc — 6% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Berkshire Innovation Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Springfield Museums Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Wam Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Way Finders Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- World Unity Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association — 3% of income from government
- Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Make-It Springfield Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sheffield Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Western New England University — 1% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% of income from government
- Springfield Boys & Girls Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Nichols College — 0% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.
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