Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC
BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,033,533 to it, the largest being CLOUD MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION ($230,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $582k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $624k
What Berkshire Environmental Action Team Inc does
Mission
Berkshire environmental action team (beat) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. We protect the environment for wildlife in support of the natural world that sustains us all. Please see schedule o for a more detailed description of some of our work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Science-based stewardshipwe involve hundreds of volunteers, students, and interns in environmental surveying and monitoring. Projects include: wildlife tracking and habitat monitoring, road-stream crossing assessment to see if fish and other wildlife can pass safely under the roads, river & park cleanups, invasive species mapping and removal, stormwater pipe outfall surveying and water quality testing to catch pollution currently getting into our waterways.
$74,239 spent19% of program spendingWatchdogging / no fracked gas in masswe work with hundreds of activists to stop new - and get off old - fracked "natural" gas (methane) and other fossil fuel infrastructure and promote clean, carefully sited renewable energy alternatives instead.
$205,702 spent52% of program spendingEnvironmental education & outreachwe publish a free, weekly e-newsletter with environmental news, calendar of events, and public notices. We maintain an extensive website: thebeatnews.org. We hold monthly community gatherings called green drinks with a different presenter each month. And we offer many natural history & environmental events, walks, talks, and interactive programs.see schedule o for futher information.northeast wildlife trackers - the mission is to convene, network, motivate, and inspire wildlife trackers across the northeast. Through our annual conference, we aim to develop long-term connections and strategies for inspiring wildlife habitat protection by brining together a range of issues and experiences connected to wildlife.berkshire zero waste initiative - is now a project under our education & outreach program.various other initiatives and programs to protect the environment for wildlife in support of the natural world that sustains us all.
$114,308 spent$454 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $394,249.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $308k to $519k (+69%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 52% · 2024 27% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Brittany Ebeling
Executive director
Board chair
Elia Del Molino
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $8k → $232k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC’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 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
28% 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 42% · 2019 66% · 2020 58% · 2021 54% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% — 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 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $112k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$300k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC?
- BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,033,533 to it, the largest being CLOUD MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION ($230,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,033,533 in grants to BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC?
- CLOUD MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERKSHIRE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION TEAM INC 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 25 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