California · Private foundation
Berkshire Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Berkshire Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $1.4M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $1.4M | 44% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $1.2M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $1.1M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $915k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $765k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $950k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $860k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interim Inc | $1,100,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $1,100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mearth | $775,000 | 9 | 18% |
| One Acre Fund | $775,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Carmel Bach Festival Inc | $550,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Monterey County Symphony Assoc Inc | $540,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Pacific Repertory Theatre | $395,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County | $175,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Christian Herald Association Inc | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Gathering for Women - Monterey | $125,000 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Berkshire Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Alexander F Victor Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Frank and Judith Marshall Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Tyler Foundation · William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation · Arts Council for Monterey County · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
How this is measured
About Berkshire Foundation
- How much does Berkshire Foundation give?
- Berkshire Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $1,375,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Berkshire Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Berkshire Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Interim Inc ($1.1M), The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($1.1M), Mearth ($775k).
- Does Berkshire Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Berkshire Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Berkshire Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Barnet Segal Charitable Trust, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Pebble Beach Company Foundation.
- Where is Berkshire Foundation based?
- Berkshire Foundation is based in CA.
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