· Private foundation
High Meadow Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k17 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT | $20,000 |
| THE MOUNT | $15,000 |
| FIRST CONG CHURCH OF STOCKBRIDGE | $15,000 |
| CHESTERWOOD | $10,000 |
| FIRST CONG CHURCH OF STOCKBRIDGE | $6,500 |
| FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP | $5,000 |
| IS 183 ART SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY IN GB | $5,000 |
| NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| BERKSHIRE SOUTH REG COMM CENTER | $5,000 |
| HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS | $4,000 |
| RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- BTBERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC3× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +47%
- RSRAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC2× · 2019–2020 · $43k · revenue +125%
- HSHancock Shaker Village Inc2× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +38%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.
The mission of north adams regional hospital is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, & personalized environment.
To engage audiences and artists alike with exceptional performances, inspired writing and superior productions that motivate us to think harder, to feel more deeply, to laugh more fully and to reflect on ourselves and the world in which we…
The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…
The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.
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.
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire South Regional Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 37 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 THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hancock Shaker Village Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds IS183 INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER 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 · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · The Green 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 High Meadow 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.
- Railroad Street Youth Project Inc — 45% of income from government
- IS183 Inc — 6% of income from government
- Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration 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
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Austen Riggs Center Inc — 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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