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Gkv Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$231k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$189k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$999kAnimals$656kEducation$142kHuman Services$36kEnvironment$23kHealth$21kPhilanthropy$3kReligion$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $189k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$688k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMEFARM AT UNDERMOUNTAIN INC$189,165
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC$15,565
EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION-THE MOUNT$5,000
NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC$5,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE BERKSHIRES$5,000
COMMUNITY ACESS TO THE ARTS$5,000
STERLING & FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE$5,000
AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC$1,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GUIDING EYES: $1k → 9%GUIDING EYES: $1k → 9%RAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA: $1k → 5%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 17%COMMUNITY ACESS TO THE ARTS: $55k → 12%COMMUNTIY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $35k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $30k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY ACESS TO THE ARTS: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY ACESS TO THE ARTS: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 20 repeat orgs$440k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
24

Total granted

$1.4M
$433k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+2%

Still filing today

90%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HA
    HOMEFARM AT UNDERMOUNTAIN INC AKA HOMEFARM AT UNDERMOUNTAIN
    4× · 2022–2025 · $654k · revenue +260% · 39% of their budget
  • COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +21%
  • SC
    SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $102k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • AM
    AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +53%
  • JA
    JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +53%
  • RU
    RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
2
New York City Ballet Inc

Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
3
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture
4
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
5
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
7
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
8
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
9
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
10
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
11
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jazz At Lincoln Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 46 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC: $101,565 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INCME2 ORCHESTRA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureME2 ORCHESTRA INCPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGEJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INCPS 21 INC: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePS 21 INCBLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCAFFE LENA INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $36,000 · Arts & CultureWAM THEATRE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $36,000 · Arts & CultureHOMEFARM AT UNDERMOUNTAIN INC AKA HOMEFARM AT UNDERMOUNTAIN: $654,404 · AnimalsHOMEFARM AT UNDERMOUNTAIN INC AKA HOMEF…+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsEDITH WHARTON RESTORATION-THE MOUNT: $57,000 · OtherEDITH WHA…RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherRUTGERS U…MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL: $30,000 · OtherMASSACHUS…END OF LIFE CHOICES NEW YORK INC: $6,000 · Other+9 more: $15,250 · Other+9 moreCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $135,000 · Human Services+3 more: $4,100 · Human ServicesSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $88,500 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $10,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Global Inc: $1,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$808,565Animals$656,404Other$158,250Human Services$139,100Education$91,000Environment$23,000Health$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOMEFARM AT UNDERMOUNTAIN INC AKA HOMEFARM AT UNDERMOUNTAIN: $654,404 over 4y, 39% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $135,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC: $101,565 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetME2 ORCHESTRA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE: $88,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPS 21 INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBLOOMINGDALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCAFFE LENA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAM THEATRE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetEDUCATION THROUGH MUSIC INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEND OF LIFE CHOICES NEW YORK INC: $6,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBerkshires Jazz Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENOX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOBY PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANDID: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAIN FOR THE SAHEL AND SAHARA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Global Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…The Feigenbaum Founda…Dr Robert C & Tina So…Berkshire Bank Founda…Jewish Communal FundLee Bank Foundation I…The Dobbins Foundatio…The Buchwald Family F…The Peter and Mary Le…Jane and Jack Fitzpat…Prospect Hill Foundat…Price Chopper's Golub…
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director · The Buchwald Family Foundation · The Peter and Mary Levin Family Foundation · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Prospect Hill Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gkv Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gkv Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Wam Theatre Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Community Access to the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc: 1% of income from government
  • ME2 Orchestra Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Shakespeare & Company Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Gkv Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gkv Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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