· 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 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 $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 |
| Berkshire Grown | $15,000 |
| Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary | $15,000 |
| The Compass School | $10,000 |
| Eurythmy Spring Valley | $10,000 |
| Farmsteads for Farmers | $10,000 |
| Perspectiva | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 36% of The Myrin Institute Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 47% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 27%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +474%
- CCELDFone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 41 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 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 THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR WALDORF EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Spikenard Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLES PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SAFE SCHOOLS NEW HAMPSHIRE DBA SAFE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW AMSTERDAM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE AGRICULTURAL VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Myrin Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Myrin Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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