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Alkire Family Foundation Tr
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k16 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 2017 GRANT BRIDGING | $15,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH | $9,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AUTISM SPEAKS | $5,000 |
| MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM | $4,000 |
| MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| MESA VERDE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $3,000 |
| GALLATIN RIVER TASK FORCE | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF BLUE SKY EDUCATION | $2,000 |
| WESTERN NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| UPPER MISSOURI WATERSHED ALLIANCE | $1,500 |
| HRDC | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–17) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
It is our mission at huron pines to conserve and enhance northern michigan's natural resources to ensure healthy water, protected places and vibrant communities. for alomst 50 years, our work across the forests, lakes and streams of…
As the official philanthropic and collaborative partner of the grand canyon national park, grand canyon conservancy's mission is to inspire generations of park champions to cherish and support the natural and cultural wonder of the grand…
Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
To conserve, protect and restore montana's coldwater fisheries and watersheds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Zoo Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mesa Verde Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds MESA VERDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gallatin River Task Force ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BIG SKY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER MISSOURI RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MONTANA RAPTOR CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIGHORN RIVER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Alkire Family Foundation Tr 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.
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.