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Upper Housatonic Valley National He

Preservation of historical, natural cultural and artistic resources in the region.

$421k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$302k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$432kReligion$158kEnvironment$52kPublic Benefit$50kFood & Nutrition$31kEducation$26kHousing & Shelter$20kCommunity Improvement$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $410,792, the rows itemized in this filing. The $420,792 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $109k
  • $250k+1 grant · $302k
$13,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$206k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER$10,000
GREENAGERS$10,000
BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
CHESTERWOOD$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Good Work Institute: $15k → 16%Good Work Institute: $8k → 16%NON PROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES: $20k → 12%Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$661k · 8 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$661k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    THE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +29%
  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +136%
  • NC
    NONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • BE
    BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +64%
  • WL
    Westside Legends Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • CS
    CONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +44%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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2
Harvard Historical Society

To collect and preserve historical material and artifacts, to encourage research into local history and to offer historical education opportunities to the community

Arts & Culture
3
West Stockbridge Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Westborough Historical Society

To study, educate, collect and preserve historical records and artifacts for the town of Westborough, MA

—
5
Shrewsbury Historical Society

To promote, preserve and educate regarding Shrewsbury, Massachusetts history.

—
6
Hadley Historical Society Inc

Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA

—
7
Fitchburg Historical Society

Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts

—
8
Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
9
Winchester Historical Society
—
10
Holliston Historical Society
—
11
Historic Boston Incorporated
—
12
Walpole Historical Society

The preservation and interpretation of the history of the Town of Walpole

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC: $460,228 · Arts & CultureTHE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INCTHE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INCNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ARTS COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $45,130 · Arts & Culture+4 moreOTHER: $19,286 · OtherOTHERTHE WEST CORNWALL PUBLIC LIBRARY AS: $16,000 · OtherTHE WEST C…TOWN OF ALFORD: $13,600 · OtherTOWN OF AL…CHESTERWOOD: $10,000 · OtherCHESTERWOO…EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC: $9,680 · OtherEDITH WHAR…TOWN OF EGREMONT: $6,000 · OtherTOWN OF EG…REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO ONE: $5,500 · OtherREGIONAL S…PARTNERS FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INC: $40,000 · EducationCONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INC: $17,000 · EducationNONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesGood Work Institute Inc: $22,500 · Human ServicesBERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentGREENAGERS INC: $21,000 · Food & NutritionWestside Legends Inc: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$575,358Other$80,066Education$57,000Human Services$52,500Environment$25,000Food & Nutrition$21,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC: $460,228 over 5y, 88% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INC: $40,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetNONPROFIT CENTER OF THE BERKSHIRES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetGood Work Institute Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ARTS COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INC: $17,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,880 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC: $12,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SALISBURY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC: $9,680 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHEFFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budget
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.

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.

Berkshire Taconic Com…Jane and Jack Fitzpat…The Feigenbaum Founda…Berkshire Bank Founda…Shoval FoundationNorthwest Connecticut…Geoffrey C Hughes Fou…Lee Bank Foundation I…Massachusetts Foundat…Price Chopper's Golub…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA36.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Upper Housatonic Valley National He funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Upper Housatonic Valley National He. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Upper Housatonic Valley National He through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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