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Alexandra Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALK INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| ADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| CARNAGIE HALL SOCIETY INC | $2,630 |
| THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY | $2,500 |
| LOTOS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSUEM OF ART | $1,096 |
| AT HOME IN DARIEN | $1,000 |
| DARIEN LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| MIT LIBRARIES - PART OF MIT | $1,000 |
| DARIAN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DARIAN EMS - POST 53 | $1,000 |
| EYE BANK FOR SIGHT RESTORATION INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% 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.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AFAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +114%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +243%- TCTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- HRHOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue ×24
- TCTHE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -25%
- SASt Agnes Foundationone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
The mission of the darien historical society, and its bates scofield homestead museum, is to maintain, collect, preserve, and exhibit materials of local historical value and educate the community about its heritage. it is through the…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Deerfield academy is an independent secondary school committed to high standards of scholarship, citizenship, and personal responsibility. through a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, extensive co-curricular program, and supportive…
Dillard university's mission is to produce graduates who excel and become world leaders and are broadly educated, culturally aware and concerned with improving the human condition.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Darien Community Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marymount Manhattan College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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
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 AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
- Who funds THE LOTOS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AT HOME IN DARIENINC ↗
- Who funds Darien Community Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration Inc DBA The Eye-Bank of New York ↗
- Who funds MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds HOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST OF DARIEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC GUARDIAN SERVICES ↗
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: 522 Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · The Rogers Family Foundation · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Darrell Harvey Family Foundation Inc · The Goodnow Fund · The Wiggins Foundation Inc · The Weil Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Darien Foundation Inc · Schaefer-Phillips 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 Alexandra Foundation 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 Fund of Darien — 9% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% 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.
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