· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE | $6,300 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $5,000 |
| BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $5,000 |
| HORACE MANN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| NOT4GOTTEN NY INC | $2,500 |
| WMHT | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +128% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +38%
- FHFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +101%
- 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%
- TTTHE TIDESWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 60 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- 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 CULTURAL HERITAGE FINANCE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ocf Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ocf Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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