Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT)

The Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) is an environmental advocacy organization that focuses on protecting wildlife and the environment while educating others on how they can help. 1 BEAT signed a petition supporting the Green New Deal. 2 BEAT has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy. 3

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)
Issue Areas: Environmental Policy
Location: Pittsfield, MA View on map
Tax ID: 27-0054356
Most Recent Filing: 2025
Budget (2025): Assets: $623,608 Revenue: $582,043 Expenses: $511,073

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    Opposition to Nuclear Energy

    BEAT was one of more than 600 co-signing organizations on a January 2019 open letter to Congress titled “Legislation to Address the Urgent Threat of Climate Change.” The signatories declared their support for new laws to bring about “100 percent decarbonization” of the transportation sector but denounced nuclear power as an example of “dirty energy” that should not be included in any legislation promoting the use of so-called “renewable energy.” 3

    Nuclear power plants produce no carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas emissions, and as of 2021 accounted for 19 percent of American electricity production—the largest source of zero carbon electricity in the United States. 4 An October 2018 proposal from The Nature Conservancy noted that zero-carbon nuclear plants produced 7.8 percent of total world energy output and recommended reducing carbon emissions by increasing nuclear capacity to 33 percent of total world energy output. 5

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    Financial Statistics

    Total Assets

    Total Revenue

    Total Expenses

    YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
    2025 $623,608 $582,043 $511,073 View
    2024 $559,121 $550,801 $514,369 View
    2023 $519,494 $544,541 $336,325 View
    2022 $307,890 $354,384 $253,842 View
    2021 $207,572 $312,131 $211,602 View
    2019 $41,720 $199,567 $214,310 View

    Prior year filings: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

    Revenue Detail

    Expenses Detail

    Employee Compensation

    • Number of Employees: 15

    Highest Earning Employees

    EmployeeTitleTotal Compensation
    Brittany EbelingEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR$67,787

    Grant Activity

    All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

    • Total Grant Value: $1,349,761
    • Number of Grants: 115
    • Number of Funders: 30

    Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:

    AmountYearFunderSubject
    $300,0002025 Barr FoundationTo support clean energy, mobility, and climate resilience in the Berkshires
    $75,0002021 Cloud Mountain Foundation C/o Wffa PllcENVIRONMENTAL
    $50,0002024 Common Stream Inc #0745935 C/o Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLPNO FRACKED GAS IN MASS
    $50,0002024 Clean Energy GroupClose Peaker Power Plants
    $50,0002024 Roaring Brook Family FoundationEDUCATION CENTER
    $50,0002023 Roaring Brook Family FoundationEDUCATION CENTER
    $50,0002023 Clean Energy GroupPeak Coalition
    $40,0002024 The New World FoundationIN SUPPORT OF WORK ON GREEN ENERGY AND CLIMATE JUSTICE
    $40,0002023 Common Stream Inc #0745935 C/o Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLPNO FRACKED GAS IN MASS
    $40,0002022 Common Stream Inc #0745935 C/o Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLPNO FRACKED GAS IN MASS
    $40,0002020 Cloud Mountain Foundation C/o Wffa PllcENVIRONMENTAL
    $35,0002023 Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick TrustBUILDING IMPROVEMENT
    $25,0002025 Roaring Brook Family FoundationEDUCATION CENTER
    $25,0002024 Cloud Mountain Foundation C/o Wffa PllcENVIRONMENTAL
    $25,0002024 The Robbins-De Beaumont Foundation C/o John K Graham ManagerGENERAL
    $25,0002023 Cloud Mountain Foundation C/o Wffa PllcENVIRONMENTAL
    $25,0002023 The Robbins-De Beaumont Foundation C/o John K Graham ManagerGENERAL
    $25,0002022 Roaring Brook Family FoundationEDUCATION CENTER
    $25,0002022 Cloud Mountain Foundation C/o Wffa PllcENVIRONMENTAL
    $25,0002022 Upper Housatonic Valley National HeOrganizational support
    $25,0002021 Roaring Brook Family FoundationGENERAL FUNDING
    $20,0002024 The Feigenbaum Foundation IncEQUIPMENT PURCHASE
    $15,0002022 Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation IncGeneral & Unrestricted
    $15,0002021 People's Action InstituteAFFILIATE STATE PROGRAMS SUPPORT
    $15,0002021 The Wyomissing Foundation IncFAMILY SMALL GRANT PROGRAM

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    References

    1. “Our Purpose.” The Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT). https://grassrootsfund.org/groups/berkshire-environmental-action-team-beat.
    2. “Green New Deal Hub.” Influence Watch. https://www.influencewatch.org/hub/green-new-deal/.
    3. “Group letter to Congress urging Green New Deal passage.” Earthworks. January 10, 2019. Accessed July 27, 2023. https://www.earthworks.org/publications/group-letter-to-congress-urging-green-new-deal-passage/
    4. “Nuclear explained.” U.S. Energy Information Administration. Accessed July 25, 2023. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/us-nuclear-industry.php
    5. “The Science of Sustainability.” The Nature Conservancy. October 13, 2018. Accessed July 25, 2023. https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/the-science-of-sustainability/