Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Alcoa Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $9.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 79
- Grants FY2024
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 95
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $150M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Alcoa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 76 | $9.1M | 54% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $4.4M | 55% |
| FY2022 | 91 | $6.3M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 81 | $7.0M | 49% |
| FY2020 | 95 | $5.3M | 54% |
| FY2019 | 88 | $5.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teach for All Inc | $2,075,000 | 2 | 3% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $537,507 | 4 | 0% |
| The Recycling Partnership Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 2% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Earthwatch Institute Inc | $196,797 | 1 | 3% |
| United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc | $195,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Naturebridge | $175,000 | 1 | 1% |
| University of Houston | $171,309 | 4 | n/a |
| Victoria College Foundation Inc | $163,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Police Activities League of Massena Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 10% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 195 recipients with no EIN on record ($29M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alcoa Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Alliance Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Arconic Foundation · The Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Fifth Third · Evansville Endowment Fund Inc · Eqt Foundation · Welborn Baptist Foundation Inc · Whatcom Community Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Puget Sound Energy Foundation
How this is measured
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About Alcoa Foundation
- How much does Alcoa Foundation give?
- Alcoa Foundation reported 79 grants totaling $9,123,638 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 95 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Alcoa Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Education (15%), International (11%).
- Who are Alcoa Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Teach for All Inc ($2.1M), National Wildlife Federation ($538k), The Recycling Partnership Inc ($500k).
- Does Alcoa Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alcoa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alcoa Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Alliance Inc, Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc, Cecil a and Mabel Lene Hamman Foundation Inc.
- Where is Alcoa Foundation based?
- Alcoa Foundation is based in PA.
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