· Private foundation
Richard M Allen Charitable Trust U D 12-23-85 M B
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of RICHARD M ALLEN CHARITABLE TRUST U D 12-23-85 M B’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Egremont Housing Trust | $200,000 |
| Construct Inc | $25,000 |
| Ohio State University | $20,000 |
| Eastern Illinois University | $10,000 |
| University of Maine | $10,000 |
| Johnson and Wales University | $5,000 |
| Prager University Foundation | $5,000 |
| Reason Foundation | $5,000 |
| PERC | $5,000 |
| University of Hartford | $5,000 |
| National Assn of Scholars | $5,000 |
| Tax Foundation | $5,000 |
| Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons | $2,500 |
| American Cancer Society | $1,510 |
| Raise 365 | $1,260 |
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 (FY23–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 15 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k 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
CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA4× · 2020–2023 · $79k · revenue +43%- PUPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +10%
- CCCOMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC4× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +211%
Funded once
- BUBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +10%
- SBSo Berkshire Vol Ambulance Squadone grant, 2023 · $25k
- TOTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $18k
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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 organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra 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 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 83 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 CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCT INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CENTER OF NORTHERN WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds ROCK N RESCUE ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY SHELTER PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HARMONY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Bikes for the World Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS 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 · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Shoval Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Life Charitable Foundation % Berkshire Life Insurance · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Gilson Family Foundation Inc · Janey Fund Charitable Trust
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 Richard M Allen Charitable Trust U D 12-23-85 M B 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.
- Community Health Programs Incorporated — 13% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Western New England University — 1% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra 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.