Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM
BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,030 to it, the largest being THE FEIGENBAUM FOUNDATION INC ($17,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $596k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Berkshire Athenaeum does
Mission
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 information about popular culture and social trends and their desire for enjoyable recreational experiences; enables older children and adults to explore personal, historical and cultural heritage; supplies the means for individuals to continue to learn throughout their lives; and provides the sophisticated information services needed to answer their questions; all in a welcoming setting for people to engage with others and discuss a variety of community issues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule oin fiscal year 2024, the library had 256,725 circulations of materials to 23,783 registered borrowers.the library's operating hours are 63 hours per week, for a total of 3,169 public service hours open for the year.the library has 16 full-time and approximately 35 part-time staff who answered 40,590 reference questions this year. The library also provided 30,106 wireless internet sessions and 21,164 wired computer sessions this year. The library offered 447 programs with 7,358 total attendance at those programs.additionally, self-directed activities (including puzzles, coloring sessions,and scavenger hunts) numbered 52, with 2,291 participants. Finally, the library's meeting rooms were utilized 2,113 times during the course of the year.
$320,229 spent$63,971 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $320,229.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.0M to $5.1M (+30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 2% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 1% · 2023 19% · 2024 16% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $4k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 68% · 2022 77% · 2023 69% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
95% of BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- City of Pittsfield · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM?
- BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,030 to it, the largest being THE FEIGENBAUM FOUNDATION INC ($17,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $38,030 in grants to BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM?
- THE FEIGENBAUM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERKSHIRE ATHENAEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing