· Private foundation
William R Oconnell and Linda P Oconnell Foundation Dtd 102497
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of WILLIAM R OCONNELL AND LINDA P OCONNELL FOUNDATION DTD 102497’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $16,000 |
| CATA | $6,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASS | $2,500 |
| LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY | $2,000 |
| THE MOUNT | $1,500 |
| NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| STOCKBRIDGE LIBRARY ASSN | $1,000 |
| THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD | $1,000 |
| CHATHAM ECUMENICAL COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE | $1,000 |
| CANTERBURY CHORAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP AFGHANISTAN | $500 |
| ELDREDGE PUBLIC LIBARY | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- BGBERKSHIRE GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +24%
- LELOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +27%
- ESELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC5× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CHURCH OF CHRISTone grant, 2017 · $2k
- CTCHRIST THE KING SPIRITUAL LIFE CENTone grant, 2017 · $2k
- PWPAW WARRIORS INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +22%
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.
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The berkshire athenaeum, pittsfield's public library, exists to initiate, nurture and feed a passion for knowledge and learning. the library offers people of all ages the materials and services necessary to satisfy an appetite for…
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
The mission of gore place is to preserve and promote the 1806 country estate of christopher and rebecca gore as a unique community resource that tells the story of early 19th century american life.
Worcester historical museum is a unique organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and interpreting worcester's history in all time periods and subject areas.
The mwm owns and operates the waterworks museum (the "museum"), including a community meeting room. the museum is a single condominium unit of the museum building condominium, one of separate condominium building regimes on the site. the…
To provide all administrative and other services and support required or contemplated by chapter 92b of the massachusetts general laws to the franklin park zoo and the walter d. stone memorial zoo, to any other agency or entity referenced…
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
The mission of the boston athenaeum is to engage all who seek knowledge by making accessible our library's collections and spaces, thereby inspiring reflection, discourse, creative expression, and joy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 GARDEN CENTER INC DBA BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds EDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE LYRIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds ELDREDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds STOCKBRIDGE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds PAW WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE BERKSHIRE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CHATHAM POLICE ASSOCIATION 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 · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · The Dobbins Foundation Co Michele Dodge Director · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Claudia K Perles Family Foundation Inc · The Ruth Krauss Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Shoval Foundation
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 William R Oconnell and Linda P Oconnell Foundation Dtd 102497 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.
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stockbridge Library Association — 0% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% 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.