Does Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson 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.

Which funders back the same organizations as Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc.

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New York · Private foundation

Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson 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.

$332k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 22
Grants FY2025: 16
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $70,000
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 34; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 8
Total assets, FY2025: $1.8M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalInternationalPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	21	$322k	48%
FY2024	16	$155k	50%
FY2023	17	$147k	41%
FY2022	27	$263k	41%
FY2021	30	$309k	50%
FY2020	34	$276k	76%
FY2019	33	$472k	n/a

87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$798kCrime & Legal$473kCivil Rights$150kFood & Nutrition$88kEducation$84kReligion$73kPhilanthropy$70kPublic Benefit$48kOther$0

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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Studio Museum in Harlem	$355,000	6	0%
The Marshall Project Inc	$180,717	4	1%
American Folk Art Museum	$130,000	4	1%
New Roots Foundation Inc	$86,500	6	13%
World Around Inc	$70,000	2	4%
The Bronx Defenders	$70,000	3	0%
J Street Education Fund Inc	$62,500	6	0%
The Osborne Association Inc	$52,500	4	0%
T'Ruah	$50,000	3	1%
Storm King Art Center	$42,500	4	0%

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All grantees of Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Studio Museum in Harlem	$355,000	6	0%
The Marshall Project Inc	$180,717	4	1%
American Folk Art Museum	$130,000	4	1%
New Roots Foundation Inc	$86,500	6	13%
World Around Inc	$70,000	2	4%
The Bronx Defenders	$70,000	3	0%
J Street Education Fund Inc	$62,500	6	0%
The Osborne Association Inc	$52,500	4	0%
T'Ruah	$50,000	3	1%
Storm King Art Center	$42,500	4	0%
Alliance of Families for Justice Inc	$35,000	2	1%
Women Donors Network	$35,000	2	0%
The Abraham Initiatives Inc	$35,000	4	1%
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Free and Fair Litigation Group Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Pacific Links Foundation	$22,000	1	1%
Bennington College Corporation	$20,000	2	0%
Impact Justice	$17,500	3	0%
Ola of Eastern Long Island Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Citizens Committee for Children of New York Inc	$13,500	3	0%
The Innocence Project Inc	$13,500	2	0%
International Cardiac Alliance Inc	$12,500	3	1%
Sunflower Network Corporation	$12,500	1	1%
The Bridge Foundation Corporation	$11,200	1	n/a
Institute for Public Architecture Inc	$10,500	3	13%
Coney Island Prep Builders Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Citizens Union Foundation Inc of the City of New York	$10,000	1	1%
Wikimedia Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Teaching Matters Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Future Now Action	$10,000	1	0%
Via Art Fund Inc	$10,000	1	1%
New York Live Arts Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Center at West Park Inc	$6,505	1	0%
Congregation Rodeph Shalom Inc	$6,000	1	n/a
Artyard (Formerly Sprocket Arts)	$5,232	2	0%
Nation Fund for Independent Journalisminc	$5,000	1	1%
Glsen Inc	$5,000	1	0%
African American Diabetes Association	$5,000	1	n/a
The Hunter College Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Reprieve (Us)	$5,000	1	1%
Hamptons Community Outreach Inc	$4,500	2	0%
New York Public Radio	$4,370	4	0%
A Jewish Voice for Peace	$3,500	2	0%
Rehabilitation Through the Arts Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Samaritan Daytop Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Art21 Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Auburn Theological Seminary	$2,500	1	0%
Prison Journalism Project Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press	$2,500	1	n/a
Washington Office on Latin America	$2,500	1	0%
Inspirational Triathlon Racing International Corp	$2,000	1	0%
The Performance Zone Inc	$2,000	1	0%
ALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal	$2,000	1	0%
Pennsylvania State University	$1,500	1	n/a
Nj Bulldogs	$1,500	1	1%
The Symphony Space Inc	$1,000	1	0%
The Drawing Center Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Pen American Center Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Prison Book Program	$1,000	1	0%
Solitude Heritage Association	$600	2	1%
The Parrish Art Museum Inc	$510	3	0%
Guthrie Center Corp	$250	1	0%
Museum of Modern Art	$200	1	0%
The Frick Collection	$130	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($381k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 57.

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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 New York Community TrustNY19.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Reba Judith Sandler Foundation Inc · Altman Foundation · Eugene M Lang Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation

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.

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About Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation

How much does Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation give?: Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $331,917 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Crime & Legal (16%), Civil Rights (5%).
Who are Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Studio Museum in Harlem ($355k), The Marshall Project Inc ($181k), American Folk Art Museum ($130k).
Does Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc.
Where is Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation based?: Alson Foundation Fka the Neil Barsky and Joan S Davidson Foundation is based in NY.