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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.

$284k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$759kHealth$729kCommunity Improvement$246kYouth Development$189kHousing & Shelter$181kFood & Nutrition$128kCrime & Legal$103kEmployment$86kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $261,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $284,111 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $22,961 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $240k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$660k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS PLACE$10,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE BERKSHIR$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPERATION WARM INC: $8k → 10%OPERATION WARM INC: $5k → 10%BERKSHIRE FAMILY AND INDIVIDUAL RES: $24k → 12%BERKSHIRE FAMILY AND INDIVIDUAL RES: $23k → 12%BERKSHIRE FAMILY AND INDIVIDUAL RES: $21k → 12%BFAIR: $21k → 12%BFAIR: $21k → 12%BFAIR: $21k → 12%BERKSHIRE FAMILY AND INDIVIDUAL RES: $21k → 12%BFAIR: $20k → 12%BFAIR: $20k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF THE BERKSHIRES: $25k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF THE BERKSHIRES: $22k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF THE BERKSHIRES: $20k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF THE BERKSHIRES: $20k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF THE BERKSHIRES: $20k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF THE BERKSHIRES: $20k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF THE BERKSHIRES: $20k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF THE BERKSHIRES: $20k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF THE BERKSHIRES: $19k → 12%NAT ALLIANCE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL: $6k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 19 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against -19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
2

Total granted

$2.4M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
-19%

Still filing today

95%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CC
    CHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $217k · revenue +37%
  • BF
    BERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +45%
  • ES
    ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • BU
    BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -49%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -19%
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
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

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…

Health
3
Berkshire County Arc Inc

Berkshire county arc is committed to assisting and supporting individuals in their quest to identify and realize their chosen life styles.

Human Services
4
Berks Counseling Center Inc

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…

Health
5
Berkshire Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Berkshire Medical Center Inc

The mission of berkshire medical center is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, and personalized environment.

Health
7
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
8
Bay State Community Services Inc

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.

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9
Berkshire Area Health Education Center Inc

Advance access to high quality healthcare and healthy lifestyles through academic and community partnerships.

Health
10
Boston Neighborhood Support Inc
Housing & Shelter
11
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League Inc
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12
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

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,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Family & Individual Resources Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 23 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $216,702 · OtherCHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INCYOUTH CENTER INC: $182,160 · OtherYOUTH CENTER INCELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC: $173,100 · OtherELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INCBERKSHIRE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $109,675 · OtherBERKSHIRE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA…BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $105,375 · OtherBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INCGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE BERKSHIRES AND SOUTHERN VERMONT INC: $86,400 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE BERKSHIRES AND SOUT…18 DEGREES INC: $74,688 · Other18 DEGREES INCBerkshire Family YMCA: $33,850 · Other+1 more: $6,583 · OtherECU-HEALTH CARE INC: $181,225 · HealthECU-HEALTH CARE INCUCP OF WESTERN MASS INC: $155,275 · HealthUCP OF WESTERN MASS INCBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC: $111,925 · HealthBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILI…THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES: $81,361 · HealthTHE BRIEN CENTER FOR MEN…BERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES INC: $193,479 · Human ServicesBERKSHIRE FAMILY &…ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC: $185,996 · Human ServicesELDER SERVICES OF …+2 more: $18,770 · Human ServicesLOUISON HOUSE INC: $142,975 · Housing & ShelterNORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION INC: $130,500 · Community ImprovementBERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC: $128,200 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $96,851 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC: $6,000 · Crime & LegalROOTS TEEN CENTER INC: $6,500 · Youth Development
Other$988,533Health$529,786Human Services$398,245Housing & Shelter$142,975Community Improvement$130,500Food & Nutrition$128,200Crime & Legal$102,851Youth Development$6,500

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 budgetCHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $216,702 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES INC: $193,479 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC: $185,996 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH CENTER INC: $182,160 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetECU-HEALTH CARE INC: $181,225 over 9y, 13% of budgetELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC: $173,100 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetUCP OF WESTERN MASS INC: $155,275 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLOUISON HOUSE INC: $142,975 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetNORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION INC: $130,500 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetBERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC: $128,200 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC: $111,925 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetBERKSHIRE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $109,675 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $105,375 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $96,851 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE BERKSHIRES AND SOUTHERN VERMONT INC: $86,400 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES: $81,361 over 9y, 0.0% of budget18 DEGREES INC: $74,688 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $12,870 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $6,583 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS TEEN CENTER INC: $6,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY: $5,900 over 1y, 8.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 United Way …Berkshire Taconic Com…Williamstown Communit…The Feigenbaum Founda…Berkshire Life Charit…Lee Bank Foundation I…Berkshire Bank Founda…Ruth E Proud Charitab…Josephine and Louise …Donald C McGraw Found…Massachusetts Bankers…Coolidge Hill Foundat…
Berkshire United Way IncMA45.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Northern Berkshire United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northern Berkshire United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 59%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 23 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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