· Private foundation
Sara & Richard Koffman Char Foundation
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k21 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONSTRUCT INC | $11,595 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $8,000 |
| ISEF FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| SOTHERN PROVERTY LAW CTR | $5,000 |
| BERKSHIRE HORSE WORKS | $3,500 |
| MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CTR | $3,000 |
| LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ED FUND | $2,500 |
| ACHLU | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,800 |
| TANGLEWOOD | $1,500 |
| HEVREH | $1,235 |
| COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
To work with the community to find creative and sustainable solutions which promote economic stability and alleviate the destabilizing effects of poverty. our vision is self-sufficiency and dignity for all.
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.
The berkshire innovation center expands the innovation capacity and growth potential of businesses by providing advanced capabilities to manufacturers in the berkshires region - primarily small and medium sized companies (and startups) in…
The coalition develops and implements strategies, coordinates resources and targets efforts to end homelessness in berks county.
Boston library consortium, inc. (the organization or "blc") was incorporated in 1977 as amassachusetts not-for-profit corporation. blc is a library consortium serving public and privateuniversities, liberal arts colleges, state libraries,…
To strengthen and grow the berkshire economy using an innovative collaborative approach among the region's business, tourism, economic, and creative development efforts.
Entertain and enrich the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds throughout the berkshire region by providing accessible and affordable performances of a broad range of operas with the highest artistic standards.
To own and operate a carousel for public use in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Poverty Law Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Common Cause Education Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 CONSTRUCT INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HORSEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRES BOUNTY 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 Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · 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 Sara & Richard Koffman Char Foundation 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.
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Construct 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.