· Private foundation
The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $655k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION COLLEGE | $1,000,000 |
| COLONIAL THEATRE ASSOCIATION | $500,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS | $450,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE BERKSHIRES | $100,000 |
| MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $100,000 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY | $80,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS | $75,000 |
| ROOTS RISING INC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| PROPRIETORS OF THE PITTSFIELD CEMET | $50,000 |
| BERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER | $50,000 |
| MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC | $50,000 |
| BERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY RECREATION ASSOCIATION IN | $45,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES | $45,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +48% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 19 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k 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
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +147%
COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $715k · revenue +525%
Berkshire Community College Foundation Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $675k · revenue +135% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- NBNORTHERN BERKSHIRE SCHOOL UNIONone grant, 2022 · $63k
- SHSHEFFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +42% · 34% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
To strengthen and grow the berkshire economy using an innovative collaborative approach among the region's business, tourism, economic, and creative development efforts.
To own and operate a carousel for public use in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
The mission of the berks arts council is to inspire, engage and unite our community through arts education, collaboration, and presentation.
The berkshire international film festival (biff) is for filmmakers and film lovers alike to be entertained, educated and inspired. biff seeks to celebrate independent film and to recognize and pay tribute to accomplished artists on both…
To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.
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 berkshire film and media collaborative (bfmc) creates educational, workforce and production opportunities in the film and media industry as an economic initiative for the western massachusetts region.
Boston library consortium, inc. (the organization or "blc") was incorporated in 1977 as amassachusetts not-for-profit corporation. blc is a library consortium serving public and privateuniversities, liberal arts colleges, state libraries,…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc and the most unlike its peers is Edward J Madden Memorial Open Hearts Club Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 170 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 TRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Berkshire Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds Hancock Shaker Village Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER HOUSATONIC VALLEY NATIONAL HE ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE INNOVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD J MADDEN MEMORIAL OPEN HEARTS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PITTSFIELD ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST EDUCATIONAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds IS183 INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS RISING INC ↗
- Who funds HELP YOURSELF WIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEVER INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WAM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENAGERS 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 · Berkshire United Way Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Berkshire Life Charitable Foundation % Berkshire Life Insurance · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · Shoval 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 The Feigenbaum 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.
- Berkshire County Arc Inc — 90% of income from government
- Upper Housatonic Valley National He — 80% of income from government
- Ucp of Western Mass Inc — 80% of income from government
- Hillcrest Dental Care Inc — 73% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Child Care of the Berkshires Inc — 59% of income from government
- Railroad Street Youth Project Inc — 45% of income from government
- Pediatric Development Center Inc — 37% of income from government
- Baseball in the Berkshires Inc — 34% of income from government
- Second Street Second Chances Inc — 33% of income from government
- Berkshire Grown Inc — 28% of income from government
- Hillcrest Educational Centers Inc — 21% of income from government
- Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Health Programs Incorporated — 13% of income from government
- Lever Inc — 10% of income from government
- Berkshire Pride Inc — 10% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Flying Cloud Institute Inc — 6% of income from government
- IS183 Inc — 6% of income from government
- Roots Rising Inc — 6% of income from government
- Berkshire Innovation Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wam Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Medical Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Berkshire Childrens Chorus Inc — 3% 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
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sheffield Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chester Theatre Company Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society 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
- Becket Athenaeum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Louison House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stockbridge Library Association — 0% 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
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.