· Public charity
Upper Housatonic Valley National He
Preservation of historical, natural cultural and artistic resources in the region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $410,792 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $420,792 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $109k
- $250k+1 grant · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DUBOIS FREEDOM CENTER | $301,906 |
| NON PROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES | $20,000 |
| OTHER | $19,286 |
| THE WEST CORNWALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AS | $16,000 |
| TOWN OF ALFORD | $13,600 |
| CHESTERWOOD | $10,000 |
| GREENAGERS | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER | $10,000 |
| BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $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 (FY22–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- TCTHE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +29%
- PFPARTNERS FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INC4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +136%
- NCNONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- BEBERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +64%
- WLWestside Legends Incone grant, 2022 · $20k
- CSCONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +44%
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 collect and preserve historical material and artifacts, to encourage research into local history and to offer historical education opportunities to the community
The mission of the west stockbridge historical society is to preserve the history and culture of west stockbridge, ma through research, programming, community involvment and the restoration of the old town hall.
To study, educate, collect and preserve historical records and artifacts for the town of Westborough, MA
To promote, preserve and educate regarding Shrewsbury, Massachusetts history.
Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA
Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
The preservation and interpretation of the history of the Town of Walpole
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 Dewey Memorial Hall Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 THE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds Good Work Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENAGERS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Westside Legends Inc ↗
- Who funds CONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALISBURY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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 · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Upper Housatonic Valley National He 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.
- Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc — 68% of income from government
- The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Arts Council Inc — 35% of income from government
- Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc — 18% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Sheffield Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge 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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