Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $258,001 to it, the largest being THE FEIGENBAUM FOUNDATION INC ($85,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Berkshire United Way Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Williamstown Community Chestlocalportfolio match
- Berkshire Life Charitable Foundation % Berkshire Life Insurancelocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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: 2020 13% · 2021 8% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% · 2024 17% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $46k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. 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 COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 32% · 2022 38% · 2023 43% — 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.
How long its funders stay
60% of BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
92% of BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Berkshire United Way Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchMA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 107 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Williamstown Community Chestlocalportfolio matchMA · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Berkshire Life Charitable Foundation % Berkshire Life Insurancelocalportfolio matchMA · funds 31 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Maportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Hampshire Preservation Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Northern Berkshire United Way InclocalMA · funds 22 organizations near you
- Williams CollegelocalMA · funds 29 organizations near you
- Coolidge Hill FoundationlocalMA · funds 13 organizations near you
- The Velmans Foundation InclocalMA · funds 32 organizations near you
- Gilson Family Foundation Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 24 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $258,001 to it, the largest being THE FEIGENBAUM FOUNDATION INC ($85,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $258,001 in grants to BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- THE FEIGENBAUM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 16funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing