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October Mountain 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.

$4.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.6MHuman Services$2.3MHealth$1.9MInternational$1.4MCivil Rights$1.2MEducation$636kYouth Development$611kHousing & Shelter$549kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.6M
$35,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC$750,000
THE HAWKINS PROJECT$600,000
VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP$500,000
AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER$250,000
SYMPHONY SPACE INC$250,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$250,000
FISTULA FOUNDATION$240,000
ACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING$200,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$150,000
THE GRABHORN INSTITUTE$150,000
CARE FOR THE HOMELESS$100,000
CHESS IN THE SCHOOLS$100,000
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS$100,000
WHARTON SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$100,000
HEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE$100,000
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 (FY18–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RED DOOR PLACE: $50k → 17%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $35k → 20%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $100k → 17%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $25k → 20%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $100k → 17%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $25k → 20%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $100k → 17%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $100k → 17%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $35k → 17%MOTHER NATION: $5k → 9%THE BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $50k → 12%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 17%CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 17%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $20k → 12%THE BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $10k → 12%CHIPS: $75k → 20%CHIPS: $75k → 20%THE BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $2k → 12%CHIPS: $30k → 20%WOMEN IN NEED: $5k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $5k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $750k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $400k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $350k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $100k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $100k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $100k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $5k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 63 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
49

Total granted

$12M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+10%

Still filing today

86%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $827k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TB
    THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.8M · revenue ×26 · 65% of their budget
  • THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +58%
  • AR
    AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $518k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • PC
    PARK CITY JEWISH CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $250k
  • AF
    AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • TO
    THE OBODO COLLECTIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -61%
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
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
6
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
7
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
National Institute for Reproductive Health Inc

National institute for reproductive health, inc. works to protect and advance equitable access to reproductive health care by building power at the state and local level. using an approach that is rooted in partnerships with state and…

Civil Rights
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
12
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Crowden Music Center. 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

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 131 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
68/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HAWKINS PROJECT: $2,365,000 · EducationTHE HAWKINS PROJECTACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING: $206,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR PRECISION …READ 718 INC: $138,000 · Education+13 more: $235,000 · Education+13 moreTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC: $1,118,000 · OtherTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INCWHARTON SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $420,000 · OtherWHARTON SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING …PARK CITY JEWISH CENTER INC: $250,000 · OtherPARK CITY JEWISH CENTER INCAMALGAMATED FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · OtherAMALGAMATED FOUNDATION INCPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $210,000 · OtherCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC: $281,000 · OtherCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INCRAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC: $200,000 · OtherCITY HARVEST INC: $187,500 · Other+57 more: $1,598,095 · Other+57 moreTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $1,800,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE …CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $445,000 · Human ServicesCARE FOR THE HOMELES…COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $180,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HELP IN PA…+7 more: $257,000 · Human Services+7 moreAUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC: $518,000 · HealthAUSTEN RIGGS C…The Fistula Foundation: $490,000 · HealthThe Fistula Fo…HNRNP FAMILY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthHNRNP FAMILY F…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $155,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN …EVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $139,090 · HealthEVERY MOTHER C…ABORTION CARE NETWORK: $105,000 · HealthABORTION CARE …+10 more: $172,000 · Health+10 moreTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,129,500 · Civil Rights+3 more: $16,023 · Civil RightsVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $500,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $355,000 · International+4 more: $59,500 · InternationalGRABHORN INSTITUTE: $165,000 · Arts & CultureUNDER THE VOLCANO INTERNATIONAL INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureLiving Jazz: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICARES FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$2,944,000Other$4,514,595Human Services$2,682,000Health$1,829,090Civil Rights$1,145,523International$914,500Arts & Culture$640,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HAWKINS PROJECT: $2,365,000 over 5y, 76% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $1,800,000 over 6y, 65% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $1,129,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC: $1,118,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetAUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC: $518,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $490,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $445,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $355,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC: $281,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetHNRNP FAMILY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 77% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $210,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY FOR PRECISION LEARNING: $206,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC: $200,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $187,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC: $180,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGRABHORN INSTITUTE: $165,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $155,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS: $139,090 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREAD 718 INC: $138,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUNDER THE VOLCANO INTERNATIONAL INC: $125,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetABORTION CARE NETWORK: $105,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE ESSENTIALS: $85,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $82,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCAMP FRIENDSHIP INC: $80,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC: $72,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE UNDERGROUND MUSEUM INC: $60,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLiving Jazz: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE OBODO COLLECTIVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMONMOUTH COUNTY SPCA: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNational Women's Health Network: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HUMANE LEAGUE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRED DOOR PLACE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER OF SOUTHWEST CULTURE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPS 39 PARENT ASSOCIATION INC: $47,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetTHE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILMINC: $45,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE FRED HOLLOWS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetREAD ALLIANCE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMaris Place: $35,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Pixley Hill Found…The Ford FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Berkshire Bank Founda…Berkshire Taconic Com…Seattle FoundationJewish Community Fede…Hopewell FundLee Bank Foundation I…Jewish Communal FundJane and Jack Fitzpat…Shoval Foundation
The Pixley Hill Foundation IncNY34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pixley Hill Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Hopewell Fund · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Shoval 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 October Mountain Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from October Mountain Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Railroad Street Youth Project Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Ibis Reproductive Health Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Construct Inc: 4% of income from government
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc: 4% of income from government
  • Becket Athenaeum Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • Austen Riggs Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to October Mountain Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to October Mountain 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.

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 131 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home