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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 FY2024(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,700,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$67M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Alexander Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EnvironmentPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationScience & TechArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving36$6.0M19%
FY20232$403k50%
FY202231$7.1M58%
FY202113$1.6M46%
FY20208$865k13%
FY20199$1.2M89%
FY20175$3.1Mn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Advocates for Climate Innovation$3,468,974666%
Wildlife Conservation Society$2,250,00030%
Teach for All Inc$2,000,00022%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$1,820,00031%
Maliasili Initiatives Inc$1,600,000210%
World Resources Institute$1,500,00040%
The Trust for Public Land$525,00050%
Wildlife Guardians$450,000213%
Rare$400,00021%
Mongabay Org Corp$350,00022%
Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Alexander Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConservation International Foundation: $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 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 budgetResources for the Future Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFauna & Flora International USA Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

About Alexander Foundation Inc

How much does Alexander Foundation Inc give?
Alexander Foundation Inc reported 38 grants totaling $7,695,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Alexander Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (59%), Animals (13%), Education (8%).
Who are Alexander Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Advocates for Climate Innovation ($3.5M), Wildlife Conservation Society ($2.3M), Teach for All Inc ($2.0M).
Does Alexander Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alexander Foundation Inc 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 Alexander Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carla and David Crane Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation.
Where is Alexander Foundation Inc based?
Alexander Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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