New York · Private foundation
Alternative Energy Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $470,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Alternative Energy 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; $341k 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 | 10 | $1.3M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $3.9M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.4M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $833k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $649k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $753k | 66% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $412k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $124k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pledger Charitable Ltd | $3,481,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Mosdos Pnei Menachem Inc | $838,000 | 5 | 50% |
| American Friends of Birkat Haaretz Inc | $472,500 | 2 | 50% |
| Friends of Harim Inc | $285,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Ezra LTzedaka Inc | $270,000 | 2 | 75% |
| Ichud Mosdot Gur | $268,500 | 3 | n/a |
| American Friends of Sfath Emeth Yeshiva | $240,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Ezer Nisuin Inc | $217,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Yagdil Torah | $212,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Friends of Chosen Yeshias Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 16% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pledger Charitable Ltd | $3,481,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Mosdos Pnei Menachem Inc | $838,000 | 5 | 50% |
| American Friends of Birkat Haaretz Inc | $472,500 | 2 | 50% |
| Friends of Harim Inc | $285,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Ezra LTzedaka Inc | $270,000 | 2 | 75% |
| Ichud Mosdot Gur | $268,500 | 3 | n/a |
| American Friends of Sfath Emeth Yeshiva | $240,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Ezer Nisuin Inc | $217,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Yagdil Torah | $212,100 | 5 | n/a |
| Friends of Chosen Yeshias Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Gerer Yeshiva and Mesivta Bais Yisroel | $97,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Ktana Inc | $78,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Mercaz Hatorah Vehachinch | $76,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Taharusam Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Talmud Torah Dchasidei Gur | $65,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Talmud Torah Ohel Yochanan | $59,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Lev Simcha | $55,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Zecher Avrohom Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Ezras Yitzchok Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 25% |
| Borough Park Volunteer of Hatzolah | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nachlas Yitzchok | $23,600 | 4 | n/a |
| Kupath Rambahn Kolel Polin | $23,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Congregation Sarah Faiga Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kupat Eizer Nisuin Bais Yisroel | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kolel Chasidei Gur | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Mosdos Torah Veyirah Yerusholyim Inc | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tiferes Eliyohu | $18,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bnos Perel | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Food for Families Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Cong Khal Rachmistrivka | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Keren Yisroel | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Bnos Chaya | $5,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Chasam Sofer | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mifal Matan Baseser Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Matan B'Seter Bambiinc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Yad Lachmu Anyu Lenitzruchin Choq Lyisroel | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mesivta Eitz Chaim | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tomchei Tzedaka Corp | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Bais Yisroel | $3,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Congregation Tiferes Yaakov | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Friends of Mosdos Bet Shemesh | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Congregation Bnos Zion of Bobov Monsey | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Zichron Mayer Leib | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Camp Cpe Inc | $2,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Elyon College | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Continuity Association Inc | $1,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Bnos Zion of Bobov Inc | $1,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation | $1,190 | 1 | 0% |
| Samchainu Inc | $600 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alternative Energy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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: The Ojc Fund · Zecher Avrohom Inc · Westlawn Foundation · Chaim Maleh Foundation · Park Charitable Trust · Friends of Mosdot Goor · Eastlawn Foundation · The Tzedakah Foundation · Birchas Mordechai Charitable Foundation · Ahavat Yisroel Humanity Inc · The Fishoff Family Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Alternative Energy Foundation
- How much does Alternative Energy Foundation give?
- Alternative Energy Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,398,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Alternative Energy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Philanthropy (43%), Education (9%).
- Who are Alternative Energy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pledger Charitable Ltd ($3.5M), Mosdos Pnei Menachem Inc ($838k), American Friends of Birkat Haaretz Inc ($473k).
- Does Alternative Energy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alternative Energy 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 Alternative Energy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, Zecher Avrohom Inc, Westlawn Foundation.
- Where is Alternative Energy Foundation based?
- Alternative Energy Foundation is based in NY.
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