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The Greater Barrington Foundation Inc Dba the Barrington Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k77 grants · $201k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $241k
- $250k+1 grant · $291k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMM FOUNDATION | $290,553 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $106,000 |
| SIMON'S ROCK COLLEGE OF BARD | $85,412 |
| BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| JACOB'S PILLOW | $48,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES | $42,435 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE | $36,000 |
| BUNKER HILL COMM COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $32,000 |
| EMMANUEL MUSIC | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD-NATIONAL | $28,000 |
| ASTON MAGNA FOUNDATION FOR MUSIC AN | $25,000 |
| METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE | $20,000 |
| WORLD EDUCATION | $10,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD-MASS | $10,500 |
| BARRINGTON STAGE CO | $8,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.…
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.
The mission of berkshire faculty services is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive and personalized environment.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 91 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 CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MAHAIWE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
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- Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
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- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HospiceCare in the Berkshires Inc ↗
- Who funds Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence ↗
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- Who funds FAIRVIEW HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BAROQUE 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 · Jewish Communal Fund · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · Berkshire United Way Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Donald C McGraw Foundation 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 The Greater Barrington Foundation Inc Dba the Barrington Foundation 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.
- Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Emmanuel Music Inc — 5% of income from government
- Berkshire Medical Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairview Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Boston Baroque Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Pulse Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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