· Private foundation
Alex J Ettl Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $207k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $18,000 |
| NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY | $18,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MUSEE D'ORSAY | $15,500 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| NEW YORK LIVE ARTS | $15,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA BALLET | $14,500 |
| PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION | $14,000 |
| NATIVITY SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $13,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| THE GOW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| KQED | $10,000 |
| WINDRUSH FARM | $10,000 |
| PRINCETON ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +154%
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC9× · 2017–2025 · $154k · revenue +21%
- TPTHE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LA PHILHARMONICone grant, 2021 · $5k
READY TO SUCCEEDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +108%- RHRUBY HABITAT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -74%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL SCULPTURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PAUL TAYLOR DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE GOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Siddhartha School Partnership ↗
- Who funds OAKS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART AKA THE SHELLEY & DONALD RUBIN CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds Ccb Cycling Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alex J Ettl Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alex J Ettl Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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