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Lee Bank Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$235k
Granted FY2026still arriving
49
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$191kFood & Nutrition$120kCommunity Improvement$117kHealth$83kHuman Services$74kHousing & Shelter$53kEducation$50kEmployment$42kOther$0
02FY2026 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k44 grants · $168k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SERVICENET$25,000
ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER$12,500
BERKSHIRE COUNTY HEAD START$10,000
PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER$10,000
RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT$10,000
18 DEGREES$9,500
CENTRAL BERKSHIRE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$7,500
BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES$7,500
CDCSB$7,500
Individual grant recipient$6,000
BERKSHIRE FILM & MEDIA COLLABORATIVE$5,000
BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY$5,000
WEB DUBOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY$5,000
GREENAGERS$5,000
LEE YOUTH ASSOCIATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $96k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HILLTOWN VILLAGE INC: $5k → 12%HILLTOWN VILLAGE: $3k → 12%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $3k → 12%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $3k → 12%RIVERBROOK RESIDENCE: $2k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $4k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $3k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $3k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $3k → 12%BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT: $1k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $5k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $5k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $5k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $4k → 12%BERKSHIRE COUNTY ARC: $2k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $13k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $10k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $6k → 12%COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS: $5k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $4k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $1k → 12%NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $1k → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$924k · 57 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2026, 25 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
38

Total granted

$924k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+20%

Still filing today

89%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • EF
    ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC
    5× · 2022–2026 · $55k · revenue +43%
  • COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC
    5× · 2021–2026 · $43k · revenue +143%
  • BC
    BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
    4× · 2022–2026 · $42k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • PP
    PITTSFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
  • C
    CHP
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SOUTH BERKSHIRE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -41%
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
Berkshire Education and Correction Services Inc
Crime & Legal
2
1BERKSHIRE Strategic Alliance Inc

To strengthen and grow the berkshire economy using an innovative collaborative approach among the region's business, tourism, economic, and creative development efforts.

Community Improvement
3
Berk County Regional Employment Board

To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.

Employment
4
Berkshire Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Berkshire Community Land Trust Inc

To secure permanent access, affordability, and productivity of land for housing, farming, and local industry by holding land in community trusteeship.

Environment
6
Berkshire Carousel Inc

To own and operate a carousel for public use in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Arts & Culture
7
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
9
Berks Arts Council

The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.

Arts & Culture
10
Berkshire Dance Theatre Inc

Berkshire dance theatre 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.

Arts & Culture
11
Boston Library Consortium Inc

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,…

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12
IS183 Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire South Regional Community Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 110 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
55/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC: $55,000 · OtherELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INCBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $41,800 · OtherBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC18 DEGREES INC: $41,000 · Other18 DEGREES INCCDCSB: $20,600 · OtherBERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER INC: $32,500 · OtherBERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER INCFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · OtherRAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC: $24,600 · OtherBERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30,000 · Other+58 more: $330,600 · Other+58 moreROOTS RISING INC: $37,500 · Food & NutritionROOTS RISING I…GREENAGERS INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionGREENAGERS INCBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRES BOU…BERKSHIRE GROWN INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE GROW…BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE AGRI…+1 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $35,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS…SERVICENET INC: $25,000 · HealthSERVICENET…PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $16,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC …BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC: $15,000 · HealthBERKSHIRE …THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES: $10,000 · HealthTHE BRIEN …BERKSHIRE COALITION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $43,200 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesBERKSHIRE…Berkshire Community Diaper Project: $12,000 · Human ServicesBerkshire…HILLTOWN VILLAGE: $7,500 · Human ServicesHILLTOWN …NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesNONPROFIT…KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $5,000 · Human ServicesBERKSHIRE COUNTY ARC INC: $3,250 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesTRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM: $21,000 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES …THE DOWNTOWN PITTSFIELD CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DOWNT…MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureMAHAIWE P…Sonrisas Inc: $9,100 · Arts & CultureSonrisas …THE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC IN COMMON INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE CHILDRENS CHORUS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE PULSE INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreCONSTRUCT INC: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CENTRAL BERKSHIRE: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc: $14,250 · EducationBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $12,500 · EducationBECKET ATHENAEUM INC: $9,380 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $8,300 · EducationLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC: $2,500 · EducationLINK TO LIBRARIES INC: $1,700 · Education
Other$601,100Food & Nutrition$144,500Health$108,000Human Services$96,950Arts & Culture$95,100Housing & Shelter$50,000Education$48,630

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC: $43,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $41,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budget18 DEGREES INC: $41,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS RISING INC: $37,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER INC: $32,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC: $30,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetBERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE GROWN INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetRAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC: $24,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM: $21,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CENTRAL BERKSHIRE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE INC: $17,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLATINAS413 INC: $16,800 over 3y, 14% of budgetPEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DOWNTOWN PITTSFIELD CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetSECOND STREET SECOND CHANCES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLiteracy Network of South Berkshire Inc: $14,250 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBerkshire Community Diaper Project: $12,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $11,500 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SOUTH BERKSHIRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBECKET ATHENAEUM INC: $9,380 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSonrisas Inc: $9,100 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $8,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXTRASPECIALTEAS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHILLTOWN VILLAGE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE BERKSHIRES AND SOUTHERN VERMONT INC: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RECREATION ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $5,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMUSIC IN COMMON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE CHILDRENS CHORUS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBERKSHIRE PULSE INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTY ARC INC: $3,250 over 2y, 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 Community Foundation IncMA112.4× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lee Bank Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee Bank Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
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 Lee Bank Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lee Bank 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 110 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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