· Public charity
Northern Berkshire United Way Inc
To unite the community in support of a broad spectrum of individual agency programs that provide human services vital to the people of the region and to serve as a central fund raising body for such.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $261,150 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $284,111 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,961 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES | $23,000 |
| ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER | $21,000 |
| ELDER SERVICES OF THE BERKSHIRES | $20,000 |
| BFAIR | $19,500 |
| ECU HEALTHCARE | $19,000 |
| LOUISON HOUSE | $17,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY | $17,000 |
| YOUTH CENTER INC | $16,500 |
| BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT | $16,000 |
| NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALIT | $14,250 |
| BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES | $13,500 |
| BERKSHIRE FAMILY YMCA | $11,500 |
| BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL | $11,400 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE BERKSHIR | $10,000 |
| BERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS PLACE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $398k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +93% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 95% 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
- CCCHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $217k · revenue +37%
- BFBERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +45%
- ESELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- BUBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -49%
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTYone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -19%
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.
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
Berkshire county arc is committed to assisting and supporting individuals in their quest to identify and realize their chosen life styles.
Berks counseling center (bcc) is a recovery oriented certified community behavioral health center (ccbhc) with an integrated behavioral and physical health model of service delivery. the center provides a holistic approach to a culturally…
The mission of berkshire medical center is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, and personalized environment.
To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.
We support individuals, families, and the community with our continuum of care services with integrated, culturally competent behaviourial health, substance use recovery, and rehabilitative justice services.
Advance access to high quality healthcare and healthy lifestyles through academic and community partnerships.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Family & Individual Resources Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Warm 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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 23 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 CHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ECU-HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UCP OF WESTERN MASS INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE BERKSHIRES AND SOUTHERN VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS TEEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY ↗
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 United Way Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Williamstown Community Chest · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Life Charitable Foundation % Berkshire Life Insurance · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Ruth E Proud Charitable Trust · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Coolidge Hill 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 Northern Berkshire United Way 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.
- Ucp of Western Mass Inc — 80% of income from government
- Elizabeth Freeman Center 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
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Roots Teen Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Youth Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Louison House 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.