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Sara & Richard Koffman Char Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Sara & Richard Koffman Char Foundation

$60k
Granted FY2019
22
Grants FY2019
9
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2019 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k21 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,800
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSTRUCT INC$11,595
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$8,000
ISEF FOUNDATION$7,500
SOTHERN PROVERTY LAW CTR$5,000
BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY$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
Individual grant recipient$1,000
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$1,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%PEACE THROUGH CULTURE: $1k → 12%CTR PEACE: $2k → 8%LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ED FUND: $3k → 14%IPPF WHR: $500 → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION: $2k → 20%COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $1k → 14%SOTHERN PROVERTY LAW CTR: $5k → 18%VIM: $500 → 10%HEVREH: $1k → 9%TANGLEWOOD: $2k → 6%GREAT BARRINGTON POLICE ASSN: $100 → 14%BERKSHIRE HORSE WORKS: $4k → 12%ISEF FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION: $8k → 20%BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY: $5k → 12%JEWISH WOMENS FDN: $1k → 17%CONSTRUCT INC: $12k → 12%ACHLU: $2k → 17%MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CTR: $3k → 12%RSYP: $1k → 12%BERKSHIRE CTR FOR JUSTICE: $500 → 12%BERKSHIRE BOUNTY: $100 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
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CT
CA
DC
AL
GA
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 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
Berkshire Education and Correction Services Inc
Crime & Legal
2
Berkshire Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Berkshire Community Action Council Inc

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.

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4
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
The Berkeley Policy Institute Inc
Social Science
6
Berkshire Innovation Center Inc

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…

Employment
7
Berks Coalition to End Homelessness Inc

The coalition develops and implements strategies, coordinates resources and targets efforts to end homelessness in berks county.

Human Services
8
Boston Library Consortium Inc

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,…

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9
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
10
Berkshire Opera Festival Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Berkshire Carousel Inc

To own and operate a carousel for public use in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Arts & Culture
12
Berks Community Health Center

Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Poverty Law Center Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 22 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ISEF FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherISEF FOUNDATIONLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ED FUND: $2,500 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ED FUNDACHLU: $2,000 · OtherACHLUIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH FEDERATION: $1,800 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONTANGLEWOOD: $1,500 · OtherTANGLEWOODHEVREH: $1,235 · OtherRSYP: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+5 more: $1,700 · Other+5 moreCONSTRUCT INC: $11,595 · Housing & ShelterCONSTRUCT INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FE…BERKSHIRE HORSEWORKS INC: $3,500 · HealthBERKSHIRE HORSEWORKS …BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $5,000 · EducationBARRINGTO…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN …MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$23,235Housing & Shelter$11,595Health$11,500Education$5,000Crime & Legal$5,000Arts & Culture$3,000Public Benefit$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONSTRUCT INC: $11,595 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE HORSEWORKS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $500 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Berkshire Bank Founda…Berkshire Taconic Com…Lee Bank Foundation I…Dr Robert C & Tina So…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Berkshire Bank Foundation IncMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sara & Richard Koffman Char Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sara & Richard Koffman Char Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Construct Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 22 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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