New York · Private foundation
Alper Family 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.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,935,612
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Alper Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 | 6 | $3.3M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $2.5M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $3.1M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Chicago | $4,980,369 | 3 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $2,139,999 | 2 | 0% |
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $1,014,156 | 1 | 1% |
| Target Als Foundation Inc | $511,498 | 2 | 1% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $250,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New York Historical Society | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New York Restoration Project | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stephen Wise Free Synagogue | $6,094 | 1 | n/a |
| Rememberusorg Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alper Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
About Alper Family Foundation
- How much does Alper Family Foundation give?
- Alper Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $3,273,215 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Alper Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (22%), Philanthropy (1%).
- Who are Alper Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: University of Chicago ($5.0M), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($2.1M), Mount Sinai Health System Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Alper Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alper Family 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.
- Where is Alper Family Foundation based?
- Alper Family Foundation is based in NY.
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