· Private foundation
Katharine LW and Winthrop M Crane 3d Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of Katharine LW and Winthrop M Crane 3d Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k57 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation | $15,000 |
| Roots Rising co Alchey Initiative | $15,000 |
| Dalton Community Recreation Association | $12,000 |
| Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc | $7,500 |
| North Star Family Services | $6,000 |
| Christian Center of Pittsfield Inc | $6,000 |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | $6,000 |
| Elizabeth Freeman Center | $5,500 |
| Berkshire Grown Fund | $5,000 |
| Great Barrington Land Conservancy | $5,000 |
| TG's Clubhouse co Berkshire Habitat for Humanity | $4,500 |
| Elder Services of Berkshire County | $4,500 |
| Cornerstone Foundation Inc | $4,500 |
| Crystal Lake Fire Department | $4,450 |
| Greenagers | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- CRCOMMUNITY RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +25%
- BNBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +228%
- NSNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +275%
Funded once
- AVAndover Volunteer Fire Associationone grant, 2020 · $4k
- A1Ashoka 1700 North Moore Streetone grant, 2020 · $4k
- SCSECOND CHANCE STABLES AND DRAFT RESCUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +38%
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.
Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land
Preservation of undeveloped land in the town of barnstable and nearby areas
To own and operate a carousel for public use in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Land conservation
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Bchs founded in 1962 for the purpose of collecting, preserving, and educating the public about the history of berkshire county.
Preservation of open land
Together, our mission is to build a sense of community and common purpose throughout the region and to enhance the recreational, educational, cultural, health and social well-being of the residents of the southern berkshires.
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
To preserve the rural new england character of williamstown, ma and surrounding areas for future generations; enable working landscapes including farms and forests; promote land stewardship.
To provide the general public with woodland trails through a wildlife sanctuary in a natural state for their appreciation and enjoyment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation 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.
Your grantees are a median of 32 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 85 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 TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOLLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GREENAGERS INC ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE WILDLIFE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HospiceCare in the Berkshires Inc ↗
- Who funds DALTON FIREMENS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS TEEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES 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 · Berkshire United Way Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Shoval Foundation · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Katharine LW and Winthrop M Crane 3d Charitable Foundation 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.
- Housatonic River Initiative Inc — 79% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
- Railroad Street Youth Project Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Performance Project Inc — 40% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Berkshire Dream Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Roots Teen Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra 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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