· Private foundation
The Myrin Institute Inc
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 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 $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $575k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Berkshire Waldorf High School | $240,000 |
| Lakota Waldorf School | $100,000 |
| Center Democratic Enviro Rights | $70,000 |
| The Nassau Land Trust | $65,000 |
| Tara High School for Performing Art | $50,000 |
| The Nature Institute | $50,000 |
| Greenagers Inc | $27,600 |
| Montessori School of the Berkshires | $25,000 |
| Thoreau College | $20,000 |
| Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary | $15,000 |
| Berkshire Grown | $15,000 |
| Eurythmy Spring Valley | $10,000 |
| Farmsteads for Farmers | $10,000 |
| Perspectiva | $10,000 |
| Blue Rider Stables Inc | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 36% of The Myrin Institute Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 47% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 27% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- BWBERKSHIRE WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +524%
- TOTHE ORION SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $396k · revenue +4%
- NLNASSAU LAND TRUST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $365k · revenue +13% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +33%
- BBBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +159%
- BTBerkshire Taconic Foundationone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Thetford academy is an independent school community with a public purpose. our mission is to celebrate the unique worth of all students, nurture their strengths, and challenge them to fulfill their potential.
Waldorf Education PreK - 8, Community Outreach and Education, Regenerative agriculture
Provide nature-based education and mentoring to youth and adults in southern vermont and western massachusetts.
The school provides alternative education based on the waldorf method which is dedicated to sound education standards. teaching the whole child to grow and learn in ways that most suit their individual temperaments and abilities, utilizing…
Brightfield's misson: rooted in a place-based approach, brightfield inspires joy, curiosity and love of learning through meaningful engagement with the natural world and local community. students learn to become stewards of the land while…
Berkwood Hedge School provides a hands-on developmental curriculum that promotes deep and intuitive learning. Students achieve academic excellence by becoming critical thinkers and creative problem solvers. Our teachers meet the needs of…
The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.
Berwick academy, founded in 1791, is dedicated to promoting virtue and useful knowledge among the rising generations.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of the greene school is to organize, operate and promote a not-for-profit educational institution in western rhode island that shall emcompass a charter and/or independent school and that shall be at all times operated in…
The ecotarium's mission is to inspire a passion for science and nature among all members of the community through one-of-a-kind experiences, interactive exhibits, and accessible programming. as new england's leading science and nature…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolakota Waldorf Society and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 41 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 BERKSHIRE WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NASSAU LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WOLAKOTA WALDORF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENAGERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMPASS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDER STABLES INC ↗
- Who funds THREEFOLD EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds THOREAU COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Spikenard Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR WALDORF EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLES PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW AMSTERDAM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAFE SCHOOLS NEW HAMPSHIRE DBA SAFE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES 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 · Dr Robert C & Tina Sohn Foundation · The Ruth Krauss Foundation Inc · The Buchwald Family Foundation · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · The Christopher Reynolds Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Waldorf Educational Foundation 0049-05-11 · The Velmans Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · 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 Myrin Institute 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 Grown Inc — 28% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Compass School Inc — 1% 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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