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Alexander Foundation Inc

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.

$7.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$14MAnimals$3.2MEducation$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.6MArts & Culture$235kInternational$225kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.8M
$100,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$67M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,700,000
MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC$1,000,000
TEACH FOR ALL$1,000,000
AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION$500,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$400,000
WILDLIFE GUARDIANS$250,000
PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER$200,000
ISLAND CONSERVATION$200,000
MONGABAYORG$200,000
SAHARA CONSERVATION FUND$200,000
THE PEREGRINE FUND$200,000
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE$200,000
TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$175,000
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION$150,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$150,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAHARA CONSERVATION FUND: $200k → 15%THE PEREGRINE FUND: $200k → 8%PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $200k → 10%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $200k → 13%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $950k → 28%IFRE INC: $250k → 14%CONSERVATION STRATEGY FUND: $80k → 14%INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1.7M → 16%RARE: $275k → 7%CAF AMERICA: $100k → 9%MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC: $1.0M → 10%SAHARA CONSERVATION FUND: $150k → 15%PEREGRINE FUND: $100k → 8%PERC: $140k → 10%ISLAND CONSERVATION: $125k → 13%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $900k → 28%WILDLIFE GUARDIANS: $250k → 14%RARE: $125k → 7%MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC: $600k → 10%PERC: $100k → 10%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $400k → 28%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BLUE VENTURES INC: $100k → 7%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $150k → 17%WILDLIFE GUARDIANS: $200k → 14%LION GUARDIANS: $100k → 14%THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1.6M → 7%LINDEN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION: $1.1M → 17%OCEANA INC: $100k → 14%AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $100k → 7%LINDEN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION: $769k → 17%OCEANA: $100k → 14%LINDEN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION: $625k → 17%LINDEN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION: $500k → 17%CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%LINDEN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION: $400k → 17%LINDEN TRUST FOR CONSERVATION: $100k → 17%WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $600k → 14%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $100k → 17%WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $350k → 14%AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 17%WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $350k → 14%AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION: $500k → 17%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $1.5M → 17%WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE: $200k → 14%TEACH FOR ALL: $1.0M → 17%ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND: $300k → 17%TEACH FOR ALL: $1.0M → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
WA
ID
MT
WI
NY
IN
CT
CA
VA
AZ
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 32 repeat orgs$906k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
6

Total granted

$19M
$491k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+115%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentPhilanthropyAnimalsInternationalScience & TechArts & CultureOther

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

  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Society
    3× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +59%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    3× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +202%
  • WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +186%

Funded once

  • II
    IFRE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • BU
    BRAC USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -50%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
4
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
5
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
6
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
7
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter
10
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mongabay Org Corp and the most unlike its peers is Advocates for Climate Innovation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducation Equity LeadershipWildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Community Arts OrganizationsCancer Support OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Environmental Advocacy Orga…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%9%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%29%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,723

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.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 50 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,820,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND I…MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC — $1,600,000 · EnvironmentMALIASILI INITIATIVES INCTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $525,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDRARE — $400,000 · EnvironmentRAREMONGABAY ORG CORP — $350,000 · EnvironmentMONGABAY ORG CORPISLAND CONSERVATION — $325,000 · EnvironmentISLAND CONSERVATIONOCEANA INC — $275,000 · Environment+7 more — $680,000 · Environment+7 moreADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION — $3,468,974 · PhilanthropyADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INN…Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $1,700,000 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Fo…+4 more — $158,333 · PhilanthropyTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,600,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION — $1,600,000 · OtherAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATIONSAHARA CONSERVATION FUND — $350,000 · OtherSAHARA CONSERVATION FUNDTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $300,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCIFRE INC — $250,000 · OtherPERC — $240,000 · OtherWORLD WILDLIFE FUND — $225,000 · OtherPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $200,000 · Other+12 more — $670,000 · Other+12 moreWildlife Conservation Society — $2,250,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conse…WILDLIFE GUARDIANS — $450,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE GUARD…INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL …INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST — $210,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL …TEACH FOR ALL INC — $2,000,000 · EducationTEACH FOR…WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $1,500,000 · InternationalBRAC USA INC — $75,000 · International+1 more — $50,000 · InternationalAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $225,000 · Science & TechCONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp — $13,000 · Science & Tech
Environment$5,975,000Philanthropy$5,327,307Other$5,435,000Animals$3,135,000Education$2,000,000International$1,625,000Science & Tech$238,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetADVOCATES FOR CLIMATE INNOVATION — $3,468,974 over 6y, 66% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $2,250,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,820,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $1,700,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,600,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMALIASILI INITIATIVES INC — $1,600,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $1,500,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $525,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE GUARDIANS — $450,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetRARE — $400,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP — $350,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION — $325,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $300,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOCEANA INC — $275,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $225,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST — $210,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $200,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BLUE VENTURES INC — $150,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCONSERVATION STRATEGY FUND — $140,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBRAC USA INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER — $60,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetResources for the Future Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFlorida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp — $13,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Iris Fund Inc — $3,333 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

Carla and David Crane…The Pew Charitable Tr…Gordon E and Betty I …John D and Catherine …Donald J Slavik Famil…The Liz Claiborne & A…Sall Family FoundationConservation Internat…Doris Duke Charitable…National Geographic S…Environmental Defense…Walton Family Foundat…
Carla and David Crane FoundationCA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carla and David Crane Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Donald J Slavik Family Foundation · The Liz Claiborne & Art Ortenberg Foundation · Sall Family Foundation · Conservation International Foundation · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · National Geographic Society · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Walton Family 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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Alexander Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Alexander Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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