· Private foundation
Ruth E Proud Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASS MOCA FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| MCLA FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| NOREN BISHOP UNITED WAY | $20,000 |
| BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT | $15,000 |
| BAAMS | $10,000 |
| ROOTS TEEN CENTER | $7,500 |
| UCP OF WESTERN MASS | $5,000 |
| NORTH ADAMS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +3%- NBNORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $118k · revenue +3%
- RTROOTS TEEN CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +34% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- BMBERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +36%
- BFBERKSHIRE FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2020 · $15k
- NHNEW HOPE METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
Berkshire county arc is committed to assisting and supporting individuals in their quest to identify and realize their chosen life styles.
The nonprofit center serves as an infrastructure and support organization for hundreds of berkshire county, ma nonprofits, helping them connect, learn and grow.
Through events, workshops, promotions, advocacy and education highlighting locally-grown and produced food, the organization helps to create a thriving local food economy.
Improvement in quality of life in northern berkshire county
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.
The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.
To strengthen and grow the berkshire economy using an innovative collaborative approach among the region's business, tourism, economic, and creative development efforts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Berkshire United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Artist Book Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 29 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 MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS TEEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISON HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOSH BRESSETTE COMMIT TO SAVE A LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds POP CARES INC ↗
- Who funds UCP OF WESTERN MASS 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 Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Northern Berkshire United Way Inc · Williamstown Community Chest · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ruth E Proud Charitable Trust 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.
- Ucp of Western Mass Inc — 80% of income from government
- Child Care of the Berkshires Inc — 59% of income from government
- Berkshire Innovation Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Berkshire Medical Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Roots Teen Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Artist Book Foundation — 3% of income from government
- Louison House Inc — 1% 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.