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Ruth E Proud Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$386kArts & Culture$247kPhilanthropy$143kYouth Development$138kHuman Services$86kFood & Nutrition$83kHealth$46kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BAAMS: $15k → 12%BOULDER ARTS AND TECH: $10k → 12%BAAMS: $10k → 12%MCLA FOUNDATION: $113k → 12%MASS MOCA FOUNDATION INC: $60k → 12%MCLA FOUNDATION: $59k → 12%MCLA FOUNDATION: $45k → 12%MASS MOCA FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 12%MASS MOCA FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 12%MCLA FOUNDATION: $35k → 12%ROOTS TEEN CENTER: $30k → 12%MCLA FOUNDATION: $30k → 12%BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT: $25k → 12%MASS MOCA FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 12%NORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY: $25k → 12%MCLA FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%MASS MOCA FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 12%ROOTS TEEN CENTER: $23k → 12%MCLA FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%NORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $20k → 12%MCLA FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%NORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $18k → 12%NEW HOPE METHODIST CHURCH: $15k → 12%CHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES: $15k → 12%NORTHERN BERKSHIRE YMCA: $15k → 12%NORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $15k → 12%THE ARTISTS BLOCK FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 12%ROOTS TEEN CENTER: $15k → 12%MASS MOCA FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 12%NORTHERN BERKSHIRE YMCA: $15k → 12%NORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $15k → 12%ROOTS TEEN CENTER: $15k → 12%NORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $15k → 12%MASS MOCA FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 12%BERKSHIRE FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 12%BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT: $15k → 12%CHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES: $15k → 12%BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT: $15k → 12%BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT: $10k → 12%NORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $10k → 12%CHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $10k → 12%NORTHERN BERKSHIRE YMCA: $10k → 12%MASS MOCA FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 12%BERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT: $10k → 12%BERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 12%NOREN BISHOP UNITED WAY: $20k → 12%BERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER: $10k → 12%BART SCHOOL: $15k → 12%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$988k · 11 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
15

Total granted

$988k
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+4%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +13%
  • NB
    NORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $118k · revenue +3%
  • RT
    ROOTS TEEN CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +34% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • BM
    BERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +48%
  • NH
    NEW HOPE METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • TA
    THE ARTISTS BLOCK FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Trustees of the Berkshire Museum

Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.

Arts & Culture
2
Berkshire County Arc Inc

Berkshire county arc is committed to assisting and supporting individuals in their quest to identify and realize their chosen life styles.

Human Services
3
Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc

The nonprofit center serves as an infrastructure and support organization for hundreds of berkshire county, ma nonprofits, helping them connect, learn and grow.

Human Services
4
Berkshire Grown Inc

Through events, workshops, promotions, advocacy and education highlighting locally-grown and produced food, the organization helps to create a thriving local food economy.

Food & Nutrition
5
Berkshire Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Northern Berkshire Community Coalition Inc

Improvement in quality of life in northern berkshire county

Community Improvement
7
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

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…

Health
8
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

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9
Berk County Regional Employment Board

To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.

Employment
10
Berkshire Education and Correction Services Inc
Crime & Legal
11
Berkshire Health Systems Inc

The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.

Health
12
1BERKSHIRE Strategic Alliance Inc

To strengthen and grow the berkshire economy using an innovative collaborative approach among the region's business, tourism, economic, and creative development efforts.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Berkshire United Way Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCLA FOUNDATION: $346,433 · OtherMCLA FOUNDATIONNORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $117,500 · OtherNORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INCCHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $45,986 · OtherCHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INCBerkshire Family YMCA: $40,000 · OtherBerkshire Family YMCABAAMS: $25,000 · Other+17 more: $150,688 · Other+17 moreMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $220,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM …ROOTS TEEN CENTER INC: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentBERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC: $82,500 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthUCP OF WESTERN MASS INC: $5,000 · HealthLOUISON HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER INC: $10,000 · Employment
Other$725,607Education$220,000Youth Development$90,000Food & Nutrition$82,500Health$30,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Employment$10,000

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 budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $220,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHERN BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $117,500 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetROOTS TEEN CENTER INC: $90,000 over 5y, 36% of budgetBERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC: $82,500 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetCHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $45,986 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBERKSHIRE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISON HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION: $9,690 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJOSH BRESSETTE COMMIT TO SAVE A LIFE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetPOP CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUCP OF WESTERN MASS INC: $5,000 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.

  • 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 POP CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds UCP OF WESTERN MASS 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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…The Feigenbaum Founda…Berkshire United Way …Northern Berkshire Un…Williamstown Communit…Berkshire Bank Founda…United Way Of Massach…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ruth E Proud Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth E Proud Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 29 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 2024, released 2024. 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home