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Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAV | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JPJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $618k · revenue +43%
COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC3× · 2019–2021 · $98k · revenue +35%- AOANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $77k · revenue +252%
Funded once
- NENEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIAone grant, 2024 · $14k
- FTFOR THE MANYone grant, 2023 · $13k
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +37%
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 heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…
To engage audiences and artists alike with exceptional performances, inspired writing and superior productions that motivate us to think harder, to feel more deeply, to laugh more fully and to reflect on ourselves and the world in which we…
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 organization is dedicated to providing the highest quality dance and performing arts education. the joy, confidence and mutual respect our students gain enhance their communities and continue to guide them throughout their lives.
The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.
Worcester center for performing arts promotes and/or hosts more than 250 performances and welcomes more than 150,000 attendees each year. the hanover theatre conservatory reaches more than 700 students in theatre, technical theatre and…
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.
Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Create a sustainable performing arts institution that fosters community engagement through a diverse range of programming
To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…
The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Pulse Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 50 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 JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Bedlam Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds BERSHIRE RESOURCES FOR INTEGRATION OF DIVERSE GROUPS & EDUCATION INC BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds MOMS AGAINST FLUORIDATION DBA NATIONAL CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCT INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WAM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GABLESTAGE INC ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE PULSE INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS 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 · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Berkshire United Way Inc
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 Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc 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.
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Wam Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chester Theatre Company Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Pulse Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra 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.
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