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Alpert & Alpert Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$751k
Granted FY2020
43
Grants FY2020
11
States reached
$310k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

50% of Alpert & Alpert Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Alpert & Alpert Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 33 organizations, $751k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

17
’18
27
’19
33
’20
64
’21
57
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Philanthropy$2.4MReligion$833kInternational$337kEducation$322kArts & Culture$185kHealth$119kHuman Services$111kCivil Rights$90kOther$0
02FY2020 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k34 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $264k
  • $250k+1 grant · $310k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$310,000
VALLEY BETH SHALOM$102,800
RAYMOND & BARBARA ALPERT FOUNDATION$100,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$61,000
CAMP RAMAH$45,000
DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL$20,000
PIECE BY PIECE$10,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$10,110
SKIRTBALL CULTURAL CENTER$10,000
CONCERN FOUNDATION$8,000
ADAT ARI EL$7,050
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$6,000
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES$5,250
KESHET FOUNDATION$5,000
THE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 15%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 10%VISIONARY WOMEN: $1k → 14%VISIONARY WOMEN: $1k → 14%VOLUNTEER COLLECTIVE: $1k → 14%Visionary Women: $1k → 14%Visionary Women: $1k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 14%Jewish Family Service Of Los Angeles: $3k → 14%Jewish Family Service Of Los Angeles: $1k → 14%GO CAMPAIGN: $1k → 14%Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles: $6k → 14%Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
LA
AL
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 58 repeat orgs$616k to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2020, 25 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
18

Total granted

$2.6M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+32%

Still filing today

83%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RA
    RAYMOND AND BARBARA ALPERT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $400k · revenue +278% · 98% of their budget
  • DT
    DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL
    5× · 2018–2022 · $238k · revenue +10%
  • CR
    CAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $146k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION & ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • P
    PRIZMAH
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • BW
    BU WHEELOCK SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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.

1
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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4
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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5
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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6
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…

International
7
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
8
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
9
Jews of Color Initiative

The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…

Civil Rights
10
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
11
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
12
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Keshet Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 128 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/93
Grantees still filing
68/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $569,500 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELESVALLEY BETH SHALOM: $434,704 · OtherVALLEY BETH SHALOMRAYMOND AND BARBARA ALPERT FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherRAYMOND AND BARBARA ALPERT FOUNDATIONMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING: $289,596 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDINGCONGREGATION SHIR HA-MA ALOT: $175,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SHIR HA-MA ALOTCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $145,500 · OtherCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INCJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION & ENDOWMENT: $100,000 · Other+68 more: $445,475 · Other+68 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $660,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN…Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $292,397 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Foundation …JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $238,300 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREAT…JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $115,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTYCONCERN FOUNDATION: $49,500 · Philanthropy+5 more: $43,600 · PhilanthropyDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL: $237,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,100 · Education+8 more: $32,700 · EducationPIECE BY PIECE: $93,500 · Arts & CultureSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC: $10,800 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $9,500 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $19,700 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $10,000 · HealthTHE CHASE FOUNDATION: $7,100 · HealthRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,500 · HealthLUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $4,000 · HealthNATIONAL ROSACEA SOCIETY: $4,000 · HealthBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $3,030 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOODORANGE AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES INC: $2,500 · Health+4 more: $4,500 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $18,000 · Civil RightsCONFLUENCE RISING: $10,000 · Civil RightsKESHET INC: $7,200 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,000 · Civil RightsJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $14,700 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,110 · Human ServicesVISIONARY WOMEN: $4,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1,500 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human Services
Other$2,559,775Philanthropy$1,399,297Education$282,600Arts & Culture$164,800Health$64,330Civil Rights$36,200Human Services$33,310

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $660,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAYMOND AND BARBARA ALPERT FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 3y, 98% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $292,397 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $238,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL: $237,800 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP RAMAH IN CALIFORNIA INC: $145,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $115,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPIECE BY PIECE: $93,500 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION: $49,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $36,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $19,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $14,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL 818: $12,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $12,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC: $10,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10,110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONFLUENCE RISING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL DAY SCHOOL: $9,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HADASSAH FOUNDATION INC: $8,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES INC: $8,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH WORLD WATCH: $8,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY: $7,825 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $7,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $7,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKESHET INC: $7,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHASE FOUNDATION: $7,100 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $5,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKESHET FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOOD PEOPLE FUND INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEL CABALLERO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVISIONARY WOMEN: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…The Rosalinde and Art…Jewish Federation Cou…Weingart FoundationLiberty Hill Foundati…Bob & Nita Hirsch Fam…Hyman Levine Family F…Richard and Ellen San…The Field Family Fund
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA46× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles Group · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Weingart Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Bob & Nita Hirsch Family Foundation · Hyman Levine Family Foundation L'Dor V'Dor · Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation · The Field Family Fund

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 Alpert & Alpert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alpert & Alpert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Keshet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Alpert & Alpert Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alpert & Alpert Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 128 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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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