· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC | $15,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD | $10,000 |
| BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY | $8,000 |
| HANCOCK SHAKER VILLAGE | $7,500 |
| YMCA | $7,000 |
| BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP | $5,000 |
| MASS MOCA | $3,500 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FDN | $3,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS CATA | $2,000 |
| THE MOUNT | $2,000 |
| NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| GUTHRIE CENTER | $2,000 |
| CHESTER THEATRE COMPANY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VHVENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +135%
- BHBERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +171%
- BSBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- ESELEANOR SONSINI ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
- KKRIPALAone grant, 2017 · $2k
- IAIS183 ART SCHOOL OF BERKSHIRESone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See schedule o for organization's mission statementmission statement: the huntington theatre company engages, inspires, entertains and challenges audiences with theatrical productions that range from the classics to new works; we train and…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Shaker museum elevates shaker material culture to animate shaker values and beliefs and inspire individuals and communities to deepen bonds and seek meaningful approaches to social, economic, environmental, and spiritual issues.
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
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 court creates and nurtures innovative, boundary-pushing art that invokes the power of collective imagination to illuminate our common humanity.
The berkshire athenaeum, pittsfield's public library, exists to initiate, nurture and feed a passion for knowledge and learning. the library offers people of all ages the materials and services necessary to satisfy an appetite for…
The mwm owns and operates the waterworks museum (the "museum"), including a community meeting room. the museum is a single condominium unit of the museum building condominium, one of separate condominium building regimes on the site. the…
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VENTFORT HALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Hancock Shaker Village Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CHESTER THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GUTHRIE CENTER CORP ↗
- Who funds EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director. Bigger dots raise more.
- Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc: 76% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc: 60% of income from government
- Berkshire Dream Center Inc: 7% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Chester Theatre Company Inc: 2% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Guthrie Center Corp: 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company 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
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: 0% of income from government
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