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The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$106k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
3%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 35
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$440k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving33$106k9%
FY202332$106k3%
FY202229$112k0%
FY202128$84k0%
FY202030$83k0%
FY201931$85k0%
FY201832$98k9%
FY201735$99kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$408kHuman Services$165kAnimals$84kEnvironment$45kEducation$22kHealth$13kRecreation & Sports$11kReligion$9kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($129k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVentfort Hall Association Inc: $149,252 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetBerkshire Humane Society Inc: $78,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe Christian Center of Pittsfield: $74,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetBarrington Stage Company Inc: $56,550 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHancock Shaker Village Inc: $45,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBerkshire Theatre Group Inc: $44,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBerkshire County Historical Society: $12,620 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNorman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc: $12,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $11,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChester Theatre Company Inc: $11,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: $11,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGuthrie Center Corp: $10,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetEdith Wharton Restoration Inc: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budget18 Degrees Inc: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetElizabeth Freeman Center Inc: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBerkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: $9,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHilltown Land Trust Inc: $6,750 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMiss Hall's School Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWamc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $1,600 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetShakespeare & Company Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Access to the Arts Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of the Berkshire Museum: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 IncMA40.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The John & Katherine Morris Foundation · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Berkshire United Way Inc

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.

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About The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director

How much does The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director give?
The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director reported 33 grants totaling $105,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Human Services (21%), Animals (11%).
Who are The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ventfort Hall Association Inc ($149k), Berkshire Humane Society Inc ($79k), The Christian Center of Pittsfield ($74k).
Does The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc, Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc.
Where is The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director based?
The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director is based in MA.

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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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