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Shoval Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k79 grants · $109k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DINNERS FOR KIDS INC | $12,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE JIMMY FUND | $10,500 |
| SPOTLIGHT PA | $10,000 |
| ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| GREAT BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVATORY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER | $5,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,850 |
| HEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE | $3,013 |
| HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| HARMONY HOMESTEAD & WHOLENESS CENTER | $2,500 |
| BERKSHIRE REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| BRIDGE | $2,500 |
| TRIPLEX CINEMA | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 45 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- KCKING'S COLLEGE6× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +1%
- FHFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +84%
- BCBERKSHIRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SSSITE SPECIFICS LLCone grant, 2020 · $20k
- MMMANSFIELD MEMORIAL PARK PLAYGROUNDone grant, 2023 · $19k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICESone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of north adams regional hospital is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, & personalized environment.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of the Berkshires and the most unlike its peers is Medical Oncology Associates Prescription Assistance Fund. 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 41 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 191 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 KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DINNERS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SPOTLIGHT PA ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF AFROFUTURIST ECOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MORNINGSIDE CENTER FOR TEACHING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC ↗
- Who funds CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC ↗
- Who funds GREENAGERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER 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 · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · The Velmans Foundation Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · The Greater Barrington Foundation Inc Dba the Barrington Foundation · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane 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 Shoval 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.
- Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
- Railroad Street Youth Project Inc — 45% of income from government
- Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc — 32% of income from government
- Berkshire Grown Inc — 28% of income from government
- Community Health Programs Incorporated — 13% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% 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
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.