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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.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$330kEducation$281kPhilanthropy$188kArts & Culture$177kReligion$78kEnvironment$59kFood & Nutrition$58kRecreation & Sports$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k79 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BRIDGE$2,500
BERKSHIRE REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER$2,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$2,500
TRIPLEX CINEMA$2,500
THE PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER$2,500
ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER$2,500
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%BERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL: $250 → 12%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $500 → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $500 → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $500 → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $500 → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $50 → 17%COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $50 → 17%HOSPICE CARE IN THE BERKSHIRES: $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

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
CA
WV
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 111 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111
58

Total granted

$1.3M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+17%

Still filing today

54%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • KC
    KING'S COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +1%
  • FH
    FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +101%
  • BC
    BERKSHIRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SS
    SITE SPECIFICS LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • MM
    MANSFIELD MEMORIAL PARK PLAYGROUND
    one grant, 2023 · $19k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -45%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
10
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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11
North Adams Regional Hospital

The mission of north adams regional hospital is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, & personalized environment.

Health
12
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of the Berkshires; 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.
04the grantee network

105 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. 105 of the 191 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/105
Grantees still filing
72/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CO JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BEACH COUNTY: $55,600 · OtherCO JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BEACH COUNTYRECANATI MILLER TRANSPLANTATION INSTITUTE: $55,000 · OtherRECANATI MILLER TRANSPLANTATION INSTITUTEHEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE INC: $39,620 · OtherHEVREH OF SOUTHERN BERKSHIRE INCIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherJOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE: $30,000 · OtherSITE SPECIFICS LLC: $20,000 · Other+122 more: $362,568 · Other+122 moreKING'S COLLEGE: $167,200 · EducationKING'S COLLEGEBERKSHIRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $57,500 · EducationBERKSHIRE COUNTRY DAY S…Cornell University: $25,200 · EducationCornell UniversitySPOTLIGHT PA: $18,000 · EducationSPOTLIGHT PAWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $13,000 · Education+6 more: $12,450 · EducationFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL: $97,700 · HealthFAIRVIEW HOSPIT…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $43,650 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN M…ALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION: $22,850 · HealthALLIED SERVICES…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,100 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UN…+12 more: $12,940 · Health+12 moreMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $52,320 · Arts & CultureMAHAIWE PER…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $24,400 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMP…NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $22,518 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL YI…CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC: $11,920 · Arts & CultureCLOSE ENCOU…BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC: $5,950 · Arts & CultureTRIPLEX CINEMA INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $19,943 · Arts & Culture+10 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $55,010 · PhilanthropyUNITED JE…MEDICAL ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE FUND: $32,375 · PhilanthropyMEDICAL O…JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES: $27,768 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FE…+3 more: $1,100 · PhilanthropyGREAT BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $32,500 · EnvironmentBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $5,500 · EnvironmentNORTH BRANCH LAND TRUST: $2,500 · Environment+3 more: $1,570 · EnvironmentBERKSHIRE GROWN INC: $12,630 · Food & NutritionGREENAGERS INC: $9,500 · Food & NutritionTHE PEOPLES PANTRY: $7,062 · Food & NutritionRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $4,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC: $4,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $250 · Food & Nutrition
Other$592,788Education$293,350Health$192,240Arts & Culture$147,051Philanthropy$116,253Environment$42,070Food & Nutrition$37,442

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 budgetKING'S COLLEGE: $167,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL: $97,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $57,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $55,010 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $52,320 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $43,650 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGREAT BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $32,500 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetMEDICAL ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATES PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE FUND: $32,375 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES: $27,768 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCornell University: $25,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $24,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED SERVICES FOUNDATION: $22,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $22,518 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDINNERS FOR KIDS INC: $18,100 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSPOTLIGHT PA: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC: $14,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE OF AFROFUTURIST ECOLOGY INC: $13,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE GROWN INC: $12,630 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMORNINGSIDE CENTER FOR TEACHING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC: $11,920 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE SOUTH REGIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLES PANTRY: $7,062 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetROOTS & DREAMS AND MUSTARD SEEDS INC: $6,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC: $5,950 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $5,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC: $5,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE: $5,040 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRIPLEX CINEMA INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $4,870 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM: $4,459 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDEWEY MEMORIAL HALL INC: $4,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $3,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE BERKSHIRES AND SOUTHERN VERMONT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT BARRINGTON PUBLIC THEATER INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINE ARTS FIESTA INC: $3,000 over 7y, 1.0% 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 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 WYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Community Foundation IncMA65.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Shoval Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shoval Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 191 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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