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Alexandra William Foundation at a glance

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Alexandra William Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$117k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$300kEducation$75kInternational$50kHealth$18kFood & Nutrition$3kPhilanthropy$2kCrime & Legal$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$1k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $104k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASIA SOCIETY$28,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$12,500
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$12,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$11,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER The Societ$10,000
FRICK COLLECTION$10,000
NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$10,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$10,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC$5,000
HEARTBEAT OPERA LTD$2,500
TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY$1,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC$1,000
GREEN BOX ARTS PROJECT$1,000
SAINT DAVIDS SCHOOL$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$492k · 22 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
15

Total granted

$492k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthFood & NutritionSocial ScienceOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +76%
  • NM
    New Museum of Contemporary Art
    6× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +2%
  • IC
    INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +189%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SB
    SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +3%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -36%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
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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3
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
4
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
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
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
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
The Santa Fe Opera

To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
The American Federation of Arts Inc

The american federation of arts initiates and organizes a national and international program of art exhibitions, publications, and educational activities to benefit the museum community and enrich the public's experience and understanding…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fenix Family Health Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
22/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $104,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $77,500 · Arts & CultureNew Museum of Contemporary ArtMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $76,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association IncINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $35,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONALHeartbeat Opera Ltd: $11,500 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $34,600 · Arts & Culture+13 moreTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $67,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOCIETYCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $15,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREI…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalCornell University: $20,000 · EducationCornell Univers…AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $20,000 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE…JUILLIARD SCHOOL: $20,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOO…SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INS…THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $3,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $5,000 · Education+2 moreThe Frick Collection: $10,000 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF LAW: $10,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER The Societ: $10,000 · OtherSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL: $2,000 · OtherTOP BOX FOODS: $2,000 · Other+3 more: $3,000 · OtherCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $12,000 · PhilanthropyKOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $11,000 · HealthFenix Family Health Center: $3,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Social Science
Arts & Culture$339,100International$83,000Education$76,000Other$37,000Philanthropy$14,000Health$14,000Social Science$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $104,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew Museum of Contemporary Art: $77,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $76,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $67,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $35,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeartbeat Opera Ltd: $11,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCH INSTITUTE - ALLIANCE FRANCAISE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOP BOX FOODS: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKEIGWIN AND COMPANY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConcert Artists Guild Inc: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BOX ARTS PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLASSWING INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alexandra William Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alexandra William Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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