· Private foundation
The Herman Karpel Memorial Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| HEVREH | $5,100 |
| GLOBAL NARRATIVES | $5,000 |
| TANGLEWOOD MUSIC CENTER | $5,000 |
| MAHAIWE THEATRE | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TEMPLE ADATH ISRAEL | $1,872 |
| THE MOUNT | $1,500 |
| JEWISH WOMEN'S FEDERATION OF THE BE | $1,500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE BERKSHIRES | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE PARENTS CIR | $1,000 |
| BERKSHIRE BOUNTY | $500 |
| STOCKBRIDGE LIBRARY | $500 |
| TRIPLEX CINEMA | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY21–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Cornell University2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +14%- CDCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SOUTH BERKSHIRE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +73%
- JPJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- CUCORNELL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARCHIone grant, 2021 · $5k
- FFANFAREone grant, 2018 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 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…
The mission of north adams regional hospital is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, & personalized environment.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
The mission of berkshire faculty services is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive and personalized environment.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
To own and operate a carousel for public use in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 51 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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Herman Karpel Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herman Karpel Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
- Fairview Hospital: 3% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc: 2% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration 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
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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