Alabama · Private foundation
Alpha Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $47M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Alpha Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 47 | $2.8M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $2.6M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $2.7M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $2.7M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $2.3M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $2.6M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $2.5M | 45% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hudsonalpha Foundation | $4,154,000 | 8 | 11% |
| Lincoln Village Preservation Corporation | $1,570,000 | 8 | 15% |
| National Children's Advocacy Center Inc | $800,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Downtown Rescue Mission Inc | $800,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Still Serving Veterans | $733,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Chadasha Foundation Inc | $575,000 | 7 | 64% |
| Generosity Foundation | $525,000 | 6 | 87% |
| Cook Museum of Natural Science | $500,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Wellstone Inc | $450,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $375,000 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alpha Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation · The I3 Cares Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Huntsville Rehabilitation Foundation Inc · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · Strong Family Foundation dated December 1 2012 · The Propst Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Alpha Foundation
- How much does Alpha Foundation give?
- Alpha Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $2,898,605 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Alpha Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (23%), Human Services (17%), Housing & Shelter (16%).
- Who are Alpha Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hudsonalpha Foundation ($4.2M), Lincoln Village Preservation Corporation ($1.6M), National Children's Advocacy Center Inc ($800k).
- Does Alpha Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alpha Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alpha Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville, The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation, The I3 Cares Foundation.
- Where is Alpha Foundation based?
- Alpha Foundation is based in AL.
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