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Ocf Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| AMER FRIENDS MARU-A-PULA SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE | $6,300 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $5,000 |
| BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $5,000 |
| HORACE MANN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| NOT4GOTTEN NY INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +128% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +38%
- FHFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +84%
- BNBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- TBTHE BROOKLYN RAIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +277%
- FIFASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +34%
- CSCITY SANTA INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -94%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Provide investment management services to harvard university.
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The men and women who brought bennington college into being sought to create a college that would emphasize "the individual student and her developing interests," learning "by activity and living", a community life designed to "break down…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alford Land Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 60 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 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Alford Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL HERITAGE FINANCE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCT INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN RAIL INC ↗
- Who funds FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY 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 · The Velmans Foundation Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Shoval Foundation · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Janey Fund Charitable Trust · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Peter and Mary Levin Family Foundation · Lee Bank Foundation Inc
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 Ocf 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 Grown Inc — 28% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% 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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