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Alexander Charitable Foundationinc

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
107
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$438k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.5MArts & Culture$584kReligion$498kEducation$306kHealth$246kCommunity Improvement$152kYouth Development$139kFood & Nutrition$127kOther$0
02FY2025 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k82 grants · $315k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $347k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $438k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SO WOOD CO YMCA$437,500
ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER$50,000
MARSHALL BUEHLER SCHOLARSHIP FUND$42,000
NORTHERN SKY THEATER$32,400
BOYS GIRLS CLUB$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$23,000
ODC INC$20,000
UWSP FOUNDATION INC$15,000
COMPANION ANIMAL MEDICAL PROGRAM$15,000
MILKWEED GARDENS$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$13,000
FAMILY CENTER$12,000
FRIENDS OF RAPIDS MUSIC$10,000
FAMILY EFFECT THE PHOENIX CENTER$10,000
EAST SIDE HIGH SCHOOL WOMENS TENNIS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $55k → 10%LIFT UP ROUTT COUNTY: $3k → 6%ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 10%MILESTONE INC: $5k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 10%ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 10%ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 10%ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 10%BRIGHTPOINT: $3k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME AID: $3k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME AID: $3k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME AID: $2k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME AID: $1k → 14%CHILDRENS HOME AID: $1k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID: $4k → 14%PALATINE TOWNSHIP NEEDY FAMILY FUND: $1k → 14%PALATINE TOWNSHIP NEEDY FAMILY FUND: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
IN
OH
CA
CO
AZ
AR
NC
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 99 repeat orgs$442k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

99 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
60

Total granted

$7.9M
$307k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+27%

Still filing today

42%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AM
    ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +177%
  • WH
    Wellness House
    6× · 2017–2022 · $57k · revenue +63%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    3× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue +29%
  • DC
    DOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +97%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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2
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
3
Door County Land Trust Inc

The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.

Environment
4
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.

Human Services
5
Wisconsin Policy Forum Inc

We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.

Public Benefit
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
8
Radio Milwaukee Inc

To reach a new generation of radio listeners on air, online and in the community with a compelling selection of music and public affairs programming. the corporation celebrates milwaukee music, arts, heritage, and culture by supporting and…

Arts & Culture
9
Milwaukee County War Memorial Inc

The war memorial center's mission is to honor the dead and serve the living. we commemorate the courageous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of freedom while preserving and sharing the stories, experiences, and…

Arts & Culture
10
Wisconsin Medical Society Inc

To improve the health of the people of wisconsin by supporting and strengthening physicians' ability to practice high quality patient care in a changing environment.

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11
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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12
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Door County Ymca Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 192 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
55/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SO WOOD CO YMCA: $4,571,400 · OtherSO WOOD CO YMCAUNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $488,500 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH+138 more: $1,991,030 · Other+138 moreNORTHERN SKY THEATER INC: $392,400 · Arts & CultureAmerican Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $31,000 · Arts & CultureOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $29,000 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $48,400 · Arts & CultureANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $225,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $17,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc: $12,500 · Human ServicesNorthern Lights Foundation: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $13,500 · Human ServicesUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC: $82,000 · EducationDoor County YMCA INC: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $34,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $22,400 · EducationGENE DOYLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $7,000 · EducationGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $41,200 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $27,200 · Food & NutritionFEEDING OUR COMMUNITIES WITH UNITED SERVICES INC: $14,100 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionBEYOND HUNGER: $7,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,000 · Food & NutritionST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $4,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionWellness House: $57,000 · HealthDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $10,750 · HealthNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS: $10,000 · HealthRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $4,000 · Health+2 more: $3,000 · HealthINCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,900 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Philanthropy
Other$7,050,930Arts & Culture$560,800Human Services$278,000Education$195,400Food & Nutrition$111,500Health$109,750Philanthropy$69,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN SKY THEATER INC: $392,400 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER: $225,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC: $82,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWellness House: $57,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetINCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,900 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $41,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC: $41,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetDoor County YMCA INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc: $40,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Extension Inc: $37,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $31,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $31,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $27,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $22,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING OUR COMMUNITIES WITH UNITED SERVICES INC: $14,100 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Milwaukee Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $10,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNorthern Lights Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGENE DOYLE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMammoth Mountain Community Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL OAK CIVIC FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER INC: $8,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND HUNGER: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE D: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILESTONE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NORTHERN SKY THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANNA MARIA ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Wellness House ↗
  • Who funds INCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN RAPIDS FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Door County YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Extension Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
  • Who funds CREATE PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds DOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS 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.

Green Bay Packers FoundationWI21.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Incourage Community Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Boldt Family Fund Inc · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Legacy Foundation of Central Wisc · Paper City Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alexander Charitable Foundationinc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alexander Charitable Foundationinc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Alexander Charitable Foundationinc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 192 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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