Connecticut · Private foundation
Alexander Host Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $228k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Alexander Host Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $227k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $174k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $125k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $96k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $111k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $89k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $82k | 2% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $85k | 3% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Valley Land Trust Inc | $102,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Buzzards Bay Coalition | $73,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Greenwich Land Trust Inc | $40,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Sippican Lands Trust Inc | $38,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Great Mountain Forest Corporation | $37,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Save the Sound | $37,000 | 9 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Charity Global Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($558k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alexander Host Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Malkin Fund Inc · The Old Stones Foundation Inc · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Dr Joseph J Lawrence Trust Diana Serrell Trustee · Bucknall Family Foundation · Royce Family Fund Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Alexander Host Foundation
- How much does Alexander Host Foundation give?
- Alexander Host Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $227,725 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alexander Host Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (89%), Science & Tech (2%), Philanthropy (2%).
- Who are Alexander Host Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Upper Valley Land Trust Inc ($102k), Buzzards Bay Coalition ($73k), The Greenwich Land Trust Inc ($40k).
- Does Alexander Host Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alexander Host Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alexander Host Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Malkin Fund Inc, The Old Stones Foundation Inc, Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc.
- Where is Alexander Host Foundation based?
- Alexander Host Foundation is based in CT.
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