Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BERKSHIRE GROWN INC
BERKSHIRE GROWN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $986,301 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($168,143). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $986k
- Net assets
- $463k
What Berkshire Grown Inc does
Mission
Through events, workshops, promotions, advocacy and education highlighting locally-grown and produced food, the organization helps to create a thriving local food economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization supports local farms and agriculture by providing education and technical resources, educates the public about the use of local agriculture through publications and education programs, and preserves land and farms. The organization partners with food access organizations and local school districts to address the needs of low-income families and the availability of locally-grown food. In partnership with food pantries and other community organizations, the organization works to establish a year-round farm-to-food-access buying exchange between food access organizations and local farmers.1. Farm to food accesscollaborative program with berkshire bounty that purchases fresh food from 31 local farms for distribution to local food access sites. In 2025, this program served 23 food pantries, community meal sites, and school that helped feed 14,000 people each week. 2. Indoor winter farmers marketsberkshire grown runs 8 winter farmers markets - two in north adams (november and december) and 6 in housatonic (november through april). Winter farmers markets accept snap and hip and offer market match to further match snap benefits. In 2025, we had 5,522 shoppers across all 8…
$1,043,976 spent$75,087 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,043,976.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $356k to $607k (+71%).
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: 2017 12% · 2018 17% · 2019 15% · 2020 16% · 2021 37% · 2022 41% · 2023 38% · 2024 69% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of BERKSHIRE GROWN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Margaret Moulton
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $3k → $171k.
6 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 GROWN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 GROWN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
32% 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 GROWN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 40% · 2019 67% · 2020 37% · 2021 19% · 2022 17% · 2023 15% — 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
65% of BERKSHIRE GROWN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
76% of BERKSHIRE GROWN INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $253k 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 GROWN INC has grown faster than half of the 655 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 655 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BERKSHIRE GROWN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$2.1M
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 GROWN 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BERKSHIRE GROWN INC: 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 GROWN INC?
- BERKSHIRE GROWN INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $986,301 to it, the largest being BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($168,143). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERKSHIRE GROWN INC have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $986,301 in grants to BERKSHIRE GROWN INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERKSHIRE GROWN INC?
- BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $168,143 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERKSHIRE GROWN 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing