· Private foundation
Alexander Family Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of Alexander Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 41 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Alexander Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 124 organizations, $395k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k155 grants · $147k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Temple Shalom | $162,752 |
| Pan-Mass Challenge | $22,000 |
| Temple B'nai Chaim | $18,248 |
| Chewonki Foundation | $15,000 |
| CAMERA | $10,000 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $10,000 |
| Caroga Arts Collective Inc | $10,000 |
| Community Synagogue of Rye | $9,371 |
| Wilton Community Assistance Fund | $6,500 |
| Topaz Museum | $6,000 |
| Open Doors | $5,500 |
| Jay Heritage Center | $5,060 |
| Planned Parenthood Southern New England | $5,000 |
| Operation Underground Railroad | $5,000 |
| Israel Cancer Research Fund | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
211 repeat relationships — 133 still active in FY2023, 78 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFChewonki Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $330k · revenue +6%
The Trustees of Princeton University9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +5%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- PIPRINCETON INTERNSHIPS IN CIVIC SERVICE INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -53%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -5%
- BIBHcare Incone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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 samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Dog Refuge Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
290 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 290 of the 432 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Chewonki Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds Daffy Charitable Fund ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Japanese American Association of New York Inc ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAROGA ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPY OF UPPER FAIRFIELD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY HOSPICE HOUSE INC D/B/A FAIRFIELD COUNTY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION STAMFORD NEW CANAAN DARIEN INC ↗
- Who funds Daily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Perakis Foundation James Perakis Trustee · Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust · The Bauer Family Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Nickel Foundation · Davatzes Family Foundation Inc · The Seelert Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alexander Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc — 81% of income from government
- BHcare Inc — 68% of income from government
- Dad Guild Inc — 63% of income from government
- East Norwalk Blue Inc — 60% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Give Way to Freedom Incorporated — 20% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Wilton Playshop Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Warrior Canine Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Wilton Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Curtain Call Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wilton Library Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.