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Alpine Social Ventures Foundation at a glance

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Alpine Social Ventures 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.

$215k
Granted FY2023
120
Grants FY2023
28
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Alpine Social Ventures Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Percent Impact Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Alpine Social Ventures Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 108 organizations, $215k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

66
’22
108
’23
0
’24
0
’25

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

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Philanthropy$395kInternational$90kEducation$75kHealth$62kEnvironment$20kAnimals$15kHuman Services$10kYouth Development$9kOther$0
02FY2023 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k118 grants · $168k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
$900
Median grant
28
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND$28,829
AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID (ANERA)$18,056
GIFTED AND TALENTED EDUCATIONAL SCHOOL$6,000
CALIFORNIA ROWING CLUB$5,200
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$5,100
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$5,055
OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB$4,110
TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$4,050
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$4,050
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF$4,050
THE TREVOR PROJECT INC$4,040
PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOGY CONSORTIUM FOUNDATI$3,750
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC$3,620
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$3,600
BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE$3,300
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 (FY22–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $384 → 6%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $300 → 17%MULHERIN CUSTODIAL HOME INC: $150 → 19%THE BRIDGING TECH CHARITABLE FUND: $600 → 7%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $300 → 6%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $900 → 14%HARBOR HOUSE: $450 → 10%THE FARMLINK PROJECT: $150 → 14%CHICK MISSION: $1k → 17%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $4k → 10%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $750 → 10%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $464 → 10%OAKLAND LACROSSE CLUB: $300 → 10%THE CHICK MISSION: $484 → 17%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

ME
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132k · 43 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 72 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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

43
49

Total granted

$132k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+11%

Still filing today

95%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentOther
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

  • AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID
    2× · 2022–2023 · $18k · revenue +75%
  • TC
    THE CLEAR FUND
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +79%
  • AC
    AVID CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +27%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
6
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
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Association of American Medical Colleges

Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.

Education
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

133 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 133 of the 171 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/133
Grantees still filing
92/133
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PERCENT IMPACT FOUNDATION: $381,148 · PhilanthropyPERCENT IMPACT FOUNDATION+8 more: $20,485 · PhilanthropyPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $28,829 · InternationalPALESTINE C…AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $18,366 · InternationalAMERICAN NE…International Rescue Committee INC: $5,055 · InternationalInternation…Educate: $4,500 · InternationalEducateFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,050 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $3,620 · InternationalINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $3,000 · International+7 more: $8,595 · International+7 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,289 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $4,050 · OtherTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $6,000 · OtherTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $4,105 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY: $6,600 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITYCALIFORNIA ROWING CLUB: $5,200 · Other+70 more: $86,868 · Other+70 moreAVID CENTER: $6,000 · EducationGIFTED AND TALENTED EDUCATIONAL SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS: $4,019 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $3,150 · EducationCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $3,000 · EducationEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $3,000 · EducationCollege Educational and Charitable Foundation: $3,000 · EducationHIGH JUMP: $3,000 · EducationMARIN ACADEMY: $3,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,250 · EducationMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC: $2,100 · Education+24 more: $17,754 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $9,530 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,992 · HealthTHE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION: $4,665 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $3,881 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $3,000 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $2,400 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,995 · HealthThe Against Malaria Foundation: $1,650 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $1,500 · Health+11 more: $6,430 · HealthTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,405 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,600 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,900 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $600 · Civil RightsCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $600 · Civil Rights+3 more: $1,050 · Civil RightsOakland Lacrosse Club: $5,624 · Human ServicesTHE CHICK MISSION INC: $1,834 · Human ServicesFARMLINK PROJECT: $1,800 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $684 · Human ServicesBRIDGING TECH CHARITABLE FUND: $600 · Human ServicesHARBOR HOUSE: $450 · Human Services+3 more: $750 · Human Services
Philanthropy$401,633International$76,015Other$118,112Education$56,273Health$44,043Civil Rights$14,155Human Services$11,742

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPERCENT IMPACT FOUNDATION: $381,148 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $28,829 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $18,366 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $9,530 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $8,992 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $6,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $6,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAVID CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFTED AND TALENTED EDUCATIONAL SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Lacrosse Club: $5,624 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,405 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,289 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ROWING CLUB: $5,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,055 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION: $4,665 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEducate: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIVINGA FOUNDATION INC: $4,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $4,105 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $4,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $4,019 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $3,881 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $3,620 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $3,150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $3,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORRIS ANIMAL REFUGE: $3,085 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHE ROCK SHE ROCK: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarin Charitable Association: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Educational and Charitable Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHIGH JUMP: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN ACADEMY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $2,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $2,760 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANDEAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,995 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Marin Community Found…The Bessemer Giving F…Givinga Foundation IncJewish Community Fede…American Express Foun…California Community …Gordon E and Betty I …Gs Donor Advised Phil…United Way Worldwide
The San Francisco FoundationCA23.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Givinga Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · American Express Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · United Way Worldwide

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Women's Mentoring Network Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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 · 0–90%
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 Alpine Social Ventures Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alpine Social Ventures 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 171 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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