· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k57 grants · $159k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Roots Rising co Alchey Initiative | $15,000 |
| Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation | $15,000 |
| Dalton Community Recreation Association | $12,000 |
| Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc | $7,500 |
| North Star Family Services | $6,000 |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra | $6,000 |
| Christian Center of Pittsfield Inc | $6,000 |
| Elizabeth Freeman Center | $5,500 |
| Great Barrington Land Conservancy | $5,000 |
| Berkshire Grown Fund | $5,000 |
| Elder Services of Berkshire County | $4,500 |
| Cornerstone Foundation Inc | $4,500 |
| TG's Clubhouse co Berkshire Habitat for Humanity | $4,500 |
| Crystal Lake Fire Department | $4,450 |
| Berkshire Agricultural Ventures | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREENAGERS 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 HOUSATONIC RIVER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DALTON FIREMENS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS TEEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Katharine LW and Winthrop M Crane 3d Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Katharine LW and Winthrop M Crane 3d Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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