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Williamstown Community Chest

The WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY CHEST strengthens communities by mobilizing resources for organizations that assist our neighbors in need.

$313k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$625kYouth Development$497kHealth$486kEducation$251kHousing & Shelter$185kCrime & Legal$92kCommunity Improvement$88kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $228k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAMSTOWN YOUTH CENTER$55,000
WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL$30,000
ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER$27,000
UCP OF WESTERN MASS$25,000
BERKSHIRE FAMILY YMCA$24,000
LOUISON HOUSE$21,000
BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES$15,000
ECU-HEALTH CARE$15,000
BRIEN CENTER$14,000
CHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES$13,000
ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY$12,000
BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER$11,000
NORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALIT$10,500
ROOTS TEEN CENTER$10,000
BERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE$6,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $409k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL: $35k → 12%Williamstown Community Preschool: $34k → 12%WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL: $32k → 12%Williamstown Community Preschool: $31k → 12%Williamstown Community Preschool: $30k → 12%WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL: $30k → 12%WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL: $30k → 12%Williamstown Community Preschool: $30k → 12%BERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOU: $6k → 12%BERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOU: $6k → 12%BERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOU: $6k → 12%BERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOU: $6k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY: $13k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY: $12k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY: $12k → 12%Elder Services of Berkshire County: $12k → 12%Elder Services of Berkshire County: $12k → 12%Elder Services of Berkshire County: $12k → 12%ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY: $12k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $12k → 12%Elder Services of Berkshire County: $12k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $11k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $8k → 12%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $7k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 21 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against -43% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
4

Total granted

$2.2M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-43%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • WY
    WILLIAMSTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $456k · revenue +53%
  • WC
    WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $251k · revenue +19%
  • EF
    ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $199k · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • SS
    SAND SPRINGS RECREATIONAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +66%
  • WR
    WILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -50%
  • WH
    WILLIAMSTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -43%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Berkshire Education and Correction Services Inc
Crime & Legal
2
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…

Health
3
Berkshire County Arc Inc

Berkshire county arc is committed to assisting and supporting individuals in their quest to identify and realize their chosen life styles.

Human Services
4
Berk County Regional Employment Board

To provide policy guidance, selection and oversight and to organize programs for the purpose of work force development in berkshire county, massachusetts.

Employment
5
Berkshire Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Berks Counseling Center Inc

Berks counseling center (bcc) is a recovery oriented certified community behavioral health center (ccbhc) with an integrated behavioral and physical health model of service delivery. the center provides a holistic approach to a culturally…

Health
7
Edward Street Child Services Inc

Collaborates to improve the quality and impact of early education and care, enhancing the development of young children and strengthening families in central massachusetts.

Environment
8
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
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9
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League Inc
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10
Berkshire County Historical Society

Bchs founded in 1962 for the purpose of collecting, preserving, and educating the public about the history of berkshire county.

Arts & Culture
11
Berkshire Area Health Education Center Inc

Advance access to high quality healthcare and healthy lifestyles through academic and community partnerships.

Health
12
Berkshire Medical Center Inc

The mission of berkshire medical center is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, and personalized environment.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire County Kids' Place and Violence Prevention Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Williamstown Historical Museum. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr13%14%5–10yr17%0%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr15%32%35–55yr15%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr13%12%5–10yr17%0%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr15%51%35–55yr15%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
9%
96/1,123

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.

04the grantee network

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 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC — $198,800 · OtherELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INCCHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC — $107,900 · OtherCHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES …BERKSHIRE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $97,200 · OtherBERKSHIRE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S …Berkshire Family YMCA — $96,000 · OtherBerkshire Family YMCA18 DEGREES INC — $38,300 · Other18 DEGREES INC+7 more — $38,546 · Other+7 moreWILLIAMSTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC — $456,250 · Youth DevelopmentWILLIAMSTOWN YOUTH CENTER…ROOTS TEEN CENTER INC — $40,500 · Youth DevelopmentROOTS TEEN CENTER INCUCP OF WESTERN MASS INC — $184,000 · HealthUCP OF WESTERN MASS IN…THE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES — $112,950 · HealthTHE BRIEN CENTER FOR M…ECU-HEALTH CARE INC — $91,125 · HealthECU-HEALTH CARE INCBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC — $65,050 · HealthBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMI…WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL INC — $251,260 · Human ServicesWILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNI…ELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC — $96,100 · Human ServicesELDER SERVICES OF BE…BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $37,300 · Human ServicesBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT …BERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES INC — $24,550 · Human ServicesBERKSHIRE FAMILY & I…LOUISON HOUSE INC — $167,050 · Housing & ShelterNORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION INC — $85,025 · Community ImprovementBERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC — $39,800 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC — $15,300 · Crime & Legal
Other$576,746Youth Development$496,750Health$453,125Human Services$409,210Housing & Shelter$167,050Community Improvement$85,025Crime & Legal$55,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILLIAMSTOWN YOUTH CENTER INC — $456,250 over 8y, 14% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL INC — $251,260 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetELIZABETH FREEMAN CENTER INC — $198,800 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetUCP OF WESTERN MASS INC — $184,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLOUISON HOUSE INC — $167,050 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetTHE BRIEN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES — $112,950 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD CARE OF THE BERKSHIRES INC — $107,900 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBERKSHIRE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $97,200 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetELDER SERVICES OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY INC — $96,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetECU-HEALTH CARE INC — $91,125 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetNORTHERN BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY COALITION INC — $85,025 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC — $65,050 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetROOTS TEEN CENTER INC — $40,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetBERKSHIRE COUNTY KIDS' PLACE AND VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC — $39,800 over 7y, 0.9% of budget18 DEGREES INC — $38,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $37,300 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetBERKSHIRE FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES INC — $24,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC — $15,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEQUUS THERAPEUTIC INC — $8,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetBERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAND SPRINGS RECREATIONAL CENTER — $4,296 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN HISTORICAL MUSEUM — $2,250 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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.

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.

Berkshire United Way …Northern Berkshire Un…Berkshire Taconic Com…The Feigenbaum Founda…Lee Bank Foundation I…Donald C McGraw Found…Josephine and Louise …Berkshire Bank Founda…Ruth E Proud Charitab…Berkshire Life Charit…Massachusetts Bankers…Coolidge Hill Foundat…
Berkshire United Way IncMA41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire United Way Inc · Northern Berkshire United Way Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Ruth E Proud Charitable Trust · Berkshire Life Charitable Foundation % Berkshire Life Insurance · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Coolidge Hill 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 Williamstown Community Chest 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Ucp of Western Mass Inc — 80% of income from government
  • Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
  • 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Child Care of the Berkshires Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Roots Teen Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Williamstown Youth Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Louison House Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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