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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.

$126k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
30 to 33
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$3.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Ocf Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving30$126k13%
FY202430$130k3%
FY202331$136k6%
FY202232$132k9%
FY202132$126k13%
FY202030$108k7%
FY201931$93k16%
FY201833$91k9%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$363kEducation$281kHealth$124kEnvironment$82kHousing & Shelter$38kInternational$23kPublic Benefit$22kHuman Services$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($459k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ocf Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $177,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFairview Hospital: $56,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBerkshire Natural Resources Council Inc: $45,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Indian College Fund: $35,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBerkshire Community Land Trust Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetHorace Mann School: $29,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: $27,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $22,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWmht Educational Telecommunications Inc: $22,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAlford Land Trust Inc: $16,500 over 9y, 7.9% of budgetCultural Heritage Finance Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBerkshire South Regional Community Center Inc: $8,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBerkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: $8,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetConstruct Inc: $7,750 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetBerkshire Humane Society Inc: $7,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $6,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Foundation for Art Research Inc: $6,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brooklyn Rail Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFashion Institute of Technology Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBerkshire Grown Inc: $2,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Garden Conservancy Inc: $1,350 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCity Santa Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Public Media Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Parks Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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 IncMA25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Ocf Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ocf 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.

About Ocf Foundation Inc

How much does Ocf Foundation Inc give?
Ocf Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $126,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ocf Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (26%), Health (11%).
Who are Ocf Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($178k), Fairview Hospital ($56k), Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc ($45k).
Does Ocf Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ocf Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ocf Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, The Velmans Foundation Inc, The Buchwald Family Foundation.
Where is Ocf Foundation Inc based?
Ocf Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 60 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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