· Private foundation
Lee Bank Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSTRUCT | $10,000 |
| MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE- VIM BERKSHIRES | $10,000 |
| BERKSHIRE FILM & MEDIA COLLABORATIVE | $7,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WESTERN MA | $7,500 |
| DOWNTOWN PITTSFIELD CULTURAL ASSOCIATION | $7,500 |
| ROOT RISING | $7,500 |
| BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES | $7,500 |
| SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES | $7,500 |
| BERKSHIRE GROWN | $7,500 |
| PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS | $5,700 |
| SONRISAS | $5,000 |
| BLACKSHIRES COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- EFELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +43%
COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC4× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +143%- BCBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $37k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- PPPITTSFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $16k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CENTRAL BERKSHIREgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +55%
- TBTHE BERKSHIRE FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.
To strengthen and grow the berkshire economy using an innovative collaborative approach among the region's business, tourism, economic, and creative development efforts.
The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.
To own and operate a carousel for public use in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
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.
The organization is dedicated to providing the highest quality dance and performing arts education. the joy, confidence and mutual respect our students gain enhance their communities and continue to guide them throughout their lives.
IS183, Inc. (dba Berkshire Art Center) is a nonprofit community art school encouraging people of all ages, means and skill levels to enrich their lives through hands on experience in the visual arts.
Entertain and enrich the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds throughout the berkshire region by providing accessible and affordable performances of a broad range of operas with the highest artistic standards.
Boston library consortium, inc. (the organization or "blc") was incorporated in 1977 as amassachusetts not-for-profit corporation. blc is a library consortium serving public and privateuniversities, liberal arts colleges, state libraries,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc and the most unlike its peers is Walking Our Talk. 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 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 95 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 ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS RISING INC ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCT INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENAGERS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOWNTOWN PITTSFIELD CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CENTRAL BERKSHIRE ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LATINAS413 INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Network of South Berkshire Inc ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SOUTH BERKSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds Sonrisas Inc ↗
- Who funds Berkshire Community Diaper Project ↗
- Who funds EXTRASPECIALTEAS 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 · Berkshire United Way Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Gilson Family Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · The Buchwald Family 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 Lee Bank 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.
- Berkshire County Arc Inc — 90% of income from government
- Extraspecialteas Inc — 83% of income from government
- Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
- Riverbrook Residence Inc — 76% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Child Care of the Berkshires Inc — 59% of income from government
- Railroad Street Youth Project Inc — 45% of income from government
- Pediatric Development Center Inc — 37% of income from government
- Second Street Second Chances Inc — 33% of income from government
- Berkshire Grown Inc — 28% of income from government
- Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc — 18% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hilltown Village — 7% of income from government
- Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
- Roots Rising Inc — 6% of income from government
- Berkshire Innovation Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wam Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Roots Teen Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Berkshire Childrens Chorus Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sonrisas Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Pulse Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- Becket Athenaeum 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
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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