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Alexandra William 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.

$143k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$300kEducation$75kInternational$50kHealth$18kFood & Nutrition$3kPhilanthropy$2kCrime & Legal$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASIA SOCIETY$35,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$30,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$15,000
TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE$10,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC$5,000
INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL$5,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
HEARTBEAT OPERA LTD$5,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$3,500
INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIALPROGRAM INC$3,000
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC$1,500
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA: $1k → 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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$395k · 19 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
17

Total granted

$395k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthFood & NutritionSocial ScienceOther

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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2019–2024 · $93k · revenue +76%
  • NM
    New Museum of Contemporary Art
    5× · 2019–2024 · $68k · revenue +2%
  • IC
    INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • Cornell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +27%
  • PI
    PERFORMA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +19%

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
6
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
7
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
8
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
9
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
10
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
11
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
12
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York Common Pantry. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
22/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $92,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $67,500 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary ArtMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $63,500 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association IncINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL — $35,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL+13 more — $41,600 · Arts & Culture+13 moreJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOLAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $20,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE …Cornell University — $10,000 · EducationCornell Universi…SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $5,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INST…KHAN ACADEMY INC — $2,500 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $2,500 · Education+2 more — $4,000 · Education+2 moreTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $39,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOC…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $10,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON F…+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION — $11,000 · HealthFenix Family Health Center — $3,000 · HealthNEW YORK UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF LAW — $10,000 · OtherSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL — $1,000 · OtherKOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · OtherGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC — $1,000 · OtherGLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $1,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Social ScienceTOP BOX FOODS — $2,000 · Food & NutritionNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$300,100Education$64,000International$50,000Health$14,000Other$15,000Social Science$4,000Food & Nutrition$3,000

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 budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $92,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art — $67,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $63,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $39,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL — $35,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeartbeat Opera Ltd — $9,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFenix Family Health Center — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOP BOX FOODS — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEIGWIN AND COMPANY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConcert Artists Guild Inc — $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHED NYC INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The New York Communit…The Ford FoundationThe Howard Gilman Fou…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Amphion Foundatio…The Aaron Copland Fun…The Andy Warhol Found…National Philanthropi…The Chicago Community…American Express Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…Tides Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · American Express Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Tides Foundation

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 William 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 38 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.

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