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Alpern Family Foundation Inc

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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.0MFood & Nutrition$623kInternational$540kHuman Services$403kCrime & Legal$395kYouth Development$317kHealth$300kCivil Rights$280kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k53 grants · $735k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINEMA ARTS CENTRE$105,000
HOUSES ON THE MOON THEATER COMPANY$100,000
SOMETHING GOOD IN THE WORLD$60,000
NEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN$60,000
ADELPHI UNIV BREAST CANCER HOTLINE & SUPPORT PROGRAM$40,000
THE RETREAT$40,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$25,000
CIRCLE OF BLUE$25,000
LONG ISLAND CRISIS CENTER PRIDE FOR YOUTH$20,000
SEEDS OF PEACE$20,000
COMMUNITY FOOD ADVOCATES$20,000
GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN$20,000
RAPE ABUSE & INCEST NATIONAL NETWORK$20,000
I-TRI$15,000
NEW ISRAEL FUND$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $463k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRONX WORKS: $10k → 28%ARTISTIC REALIZATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: $10k → 5%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $10k → 10%BRONX WORKS: $10k → 28%ARTISTIC REALIZATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: $10k → 5%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $10k → 10%BRONX WORKS: $10k → 28%ARTISTIC REALIZATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: $10k → 5%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $10k → 10%BRONX WORKS: $10k → 28%ARTISTIC REALIZATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: $10k → 5%UNCHAINED AT LAST: $10k → 10%BRONX WORKS: $10k → 28%ARTISTIC REALIZATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: $10k → 5%BRONX WORKS: $10k → 28%ARTISTIC REALIZATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: $10k → 5%LONG ISLAND CARES: $19k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $15k → 7%LONG ISLAND CARES: $15k → 7%WOMEN'S E-NEWS: $5k → 17%LONG ISLAND CARES: $15k → 7%WOMEN'S E-NEWS: $5k → 17%ISLAND HARVEST: $19k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $15k → 6%LONG ISLAND CARES: $15k → 7%ISLAND HARVEST: $15k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $15k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $15k → 6%LONG ISLAND CARES: $15k → 7%ISLAND HARVEST: $15k → 6%WOMEN'S E-NEWS: $15k → 17%USA FOR UNFPA: $5k → 17%USA FOR UNFPA: $5k → 17%USA FOR UNFPA: $5k → 17%THE RETREAT: $40k → 17%FRIENDS OF UNFPA: $5k → 17%USA FOR UNFPA: $5k → 17%THE RETREAT: $10k → 17%FRIENDS OF UNFPA: $5k → 17%THE RETREAT: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DE
AZ
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 82 repeat orgs$434k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

82 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
25

Total granted

$4.3M
$264k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+4%

Still filing today

73%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • NC
    New Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre
    6× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +11%
  • CO
    CIRCLE OF BLUE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +62%
  • SG
    SOMETHING GOOD IN THE WORLD INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +99% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +257%
  • R(
    RAINN (RAPE ABUSE & INCEST NATIONAL NETWORK
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • VV
    VIBS - VICTIM INFORMATION BUREAU OF SUFFOLK
    one grant, 2020 · $20k

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

04Your field

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.

1
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
4
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
5
Women Deliver Inc

Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.

Education
6
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
7
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
8
Project Concern International

Pci is a global development organization that drives innovation from the ground up to enhance health end hunger, overcome hardship and advance women & girls-resulting in meaningful and measurable change in people's lives.

International
9
The Conversationalist
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10
Connect Inc

Connect is dedicated to the prevention and elimination of family and gender violence and to the creation of safe families and peaceful communities.connect transforms the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that perpetuate gender and family…

Crime & Legal
11
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Women in Need Inc

To provide safe housing, critical services, and ground-breaking programs to help homeless women and their children rebuild their lives.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Out of the Box Theatre Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/75
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,685

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
54/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

New Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre — $255,000 · OtherNew Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts CentreHOUSES ON THE MOON THEATRE COMPANY — $125,000 · OtherMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $90,000 · OtherSOMETHING GOOD IN THE WORLD INC — $135,000 · OtherNEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN LI I — $110,000 · OtherWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $135,000 · OtherTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $90,000 · OtherCIRCLE OF BLUE INC — $150,000 · OtherCIRCLE OF BLUE INC+65 more — $1,492,300 · Other+65 moreGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $145,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND F…SEEDS OF PEACE INC — $130,000 · InternationalSEEDS OF PEAC…NEW ISRAEL FUND — $75,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FU…MADRE INC — $60,000 · InternationalMADRE INCFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $45,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNA…WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $45,000 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOM…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $40,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL…THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT — $30,000 · InternationalHUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONS — $30,000 · InternationalLong Island Cares Inc — $94,000 · Human ServicesLong Islan…ISLAND HARVEST LTD — $94,000 · Human ServicesISLAND HAR…Retreat Inc — $60,000 · Human ServicesRetreat In…BRONXWORKS INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS…ARTISTIC REALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesARTISTIC R…UNCHAINED AT LAST INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesUNCHAINED …USA FOR UNFPA INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesUSA FOR UN…WOMEN'S E-NEWS — $25,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S E-…HERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureHERSTORY …DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureDANCES FO…JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S P…JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureJOYCE THE…WHYHUNGER INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER…WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $37,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAK…CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT PRODUCTIONS INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureOUT OF THE BOX THEATRE COMPANY INC — $18,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $12,500 · Arts & CultureRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) — $105,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF KAREN INC — $60,000 · HealthGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC — $50,000 · HealthCAMPHILL VILLAGE USA INC — $35,000 · HealthTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $30,000 · HealthMEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC — $15,000 · Health+1 more — $7,500 · HealthNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $94,000 · Food & NutritionTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Advocates Inc — $40,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $34,000 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionHOUSES ON THE MOON THEATER COMPANY — $100,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $60,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $45,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC — $45,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,582,300International$600,000Human Services$463,000Arts & Culture$408,000Health$302,500Food & Nutrition$263,000Civil Rights$250,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNew Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre — $255,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetCIRCLE OF BLUE INC — $150,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $145,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOMETHING GOOD IN THE WORLD INC — $135,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $130,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN LI I — $110,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) — $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc — $94,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY — $94,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD — $94,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INC — $90,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetDANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION INC — $90,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINSPIRATIONAL TRIATHLON RACING INTERNATIONAL CORP — $80,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRetreat Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMADRE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAREN INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSEPA MUJER INC — $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY — $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetARTISTIC REALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES INC — $60,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRICA INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSAFE COMMUNITIES — $45,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION AGAINST CENSORSHIP INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Advocates Inc — $40,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetKIND INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNCHAINED AT LAST INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $37,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPHILL VILLAGE USA INC — $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCentro Corazon De Maria Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetUSA FOR UNFPA INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budget
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 New Community Cinema Club Inc DBA Cinema Arts Centre ↗
  • Who funds CIRCLE OF BLUE INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SOMETHING GOOD IN THE WORLD INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN LI I ↗
  • Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
  • Who funds HOUSES ON THE MOON THEATER COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
  • Who funds HERSTORY WRITERS NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds DANCES FOR A VARIABLE POPULATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRATIONAL TRIATHLON RACING INTERNATIONAL CORP ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Retreat Inc ↗
  • Who funds MADRE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KAREN INC ↗
  • Who funds SEPA MUJER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTIC REALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds JOYCE THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFE COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗

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.

The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundMother Cabrini Health…Boston Foundation IncHagedorn FoundationNew York FoundationNew York Council for …New York Women's Foun…Amalgamated Charitabl…S&P Global Foundation…Rockefeller Philanthr…American Express Foun…
The New York Community TrustNY34× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Hagedorn Foundation · New York Foundation · New York Council for the Humanities · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · American Express 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 Alpern Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Alpern Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Alpern Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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