Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC
BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,316,105 to it, the largest being NION ROBERT THIERIOT FOUNDATION ($2,025,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $41M
What Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc does
Mission
See scheudle oberkshire natural resources council, inc. (bnrc) works with the community to protect and preserve the natural beauty and ecological health of the berkshires for public benefit and enjoyment. Bnrc places special emphasis on keeping land productive and open for public benefit, through initiatives such as creating walking trails, restoring wildlife habitat and supporting community-based agricultural initiatives. Bnrc seeks to ensure all feel welcome in nature, and that our wild and undeveloped areas are protected to ensure habitat for animals, plants, pollinators and other species, and to promote climate resilience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule oprovide information and assistance to private individuals seeking to place land under perpetual preservation, whether by conveyance of fee or conveyance of interest in land, by gift or sale; acquire land and interests in land by gift or purchase for perpetual conservation; provide information, assistance and support to governmental conservation agencies pursuing perpetual conservation acquisitions; manage and enforce conservation easements; manage fee-owned land for purposes of public recreation, educational access, wildlife habitat, ecological integrity and agricultural/silvicultural productivity; provide formal and informal opportunities for public recreational and educational activities on conserved land; support and collaborate with public agencies and non-governmental organizations whose missions complement bnrc's.
$1,695,626 spentof which $2,300 as grants$5,500 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,695,626.
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 2024 to 2025, from $37M to $42M (+13%).
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 20% · 2018 20% · 2020 18% · 2021 16% · 2022 2% · 2023 12% · 2024 1% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
F Sydney Smithers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 31 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $1.4M.
17 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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 NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 52% · 2019 52% · 2020 34% · 2021 37% · 2022 24% · 2023 42% — 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
55% of BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.6M on record.
- (NN) INFRASTRUCTURE:$5.5M
- (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 NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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
- 1360 River LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC?
- BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,316,105 to it, the largest being NION ROBERT THIERIOT FOUNDATION ($2,025,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $8,316,105 in grants to BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC?
- NION ROBERT THIERIOT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL 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.
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 60 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