Alabama · Private foundation
Alfa Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 93
- Grants FY2025
- 95
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $944,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 69 to 95
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $31M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Alfa Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $183k 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 | 82 | $1.7M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 95 | $1.4M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 95 | $1.3M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $1.8M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 81 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama Farmers Agriculture Foundation | $2,964,500 | 6 | 50% |
| River Region United Way | $875,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Alabama Shakespeare Festival | $352,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Twg 2021 Birmingham Foundation | $334,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Liberty Learning Foundation | $140,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Auburn University Foundation | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Scholarship America Inc | $122,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Samford University | $109,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Faulkner University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alabama Autism Assistance Program | $95,000 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 158 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alfa Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 129 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The J K Lowder Family Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · The Long Lewis Foundation · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Goodwyn Mills & Cawood Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Alfa Foundation
- How much does Alfa Foundation give?
- Alfa Foundation reported 93 grants totaling $1,711,191 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 95 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Alfa Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (36%), Education (14%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Alfa Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Alabama Farmers Agriculture Foundation ($3.0M), River Region United Way ($875k), Alabama Shakespeare Festival ($353k).
- Does Alfa Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alfa Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alfa Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Power Foundation Inc, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The J K Lowder Family Foundation.
- Where is Alfa Foundation based?
- Alfa Foundation is based in AL.
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