How much does Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation give?

Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $42,248 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 57 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (29%), Human Services (25%), Education (9%).

Who are Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Family Service League Inc ($143k), The Carter Center Inc ($93k), The Hunter College Foundation Inc ($62k).

Does Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Andrew Sabin Family Foundation, The New York Community Trust, The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc.

Where is Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation based?

Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation is based in NY.

Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation

Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht 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.

$42k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$3k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$288kHuman Services$248kEducation$91kHealth$86kEnvironment$69kArts & Culture$49kYouth Development$26kCommunity Improvement$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE SALVATION ARMY	$3,030
SAVE THE CHILDREN	$3,000
HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$2,750
FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE	$2,500
UNITED HELP UKRAINE	$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$2,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL	$2,000
SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$2,000
KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH	$1,500
THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE	$1,000
FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION	$1,000
MONTAUK PLAYHOUSE COMMUNITY FDN	$1,000
NYY LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM	$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS	$1,000
USA FOR UNHCR	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 35%.

Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$901k · 89 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

89 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$901k

$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+4%

Still filing today

75%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

FS
FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +50%
TC
THE CARTER CENTER INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +38%
TH
THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +102%

Funded once

TN
The New Schoolgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +35%
PF
PLUS Fund Paid Leave for the United States
one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -98%
TC
THE CLAMSHELL FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -59%

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education

Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mouse King Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 150 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

101/104

Grantees still filing

64/104

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$243,467Other$294,984Human Services$221,144Education$77,750Health$64,500Environment$55,300Youth Development$22,000

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

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.

Andrew Sabin Family FoundationNY24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · The Donald and Barbara Zucker Family Foundation · Widder Foundation Inc · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · Kate Cassidy Foundation · The Jct Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Janet & Robert W Postma Foundation · Maude Pritchard Char Trust Xxxxx2009 · Yaffa Foundation Inc

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 Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alice and Jaclyn Houseknecht Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home