· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $290k
- $250k+3 grants · $997k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLEDGER CHARITABLE LTD | $470,000 |
| MOSDOS PNEI MENACHEM | $267,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BIRKAT HAARETZ | $260,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HARIM INC | $200,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MOSDOT GUR | $90,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MOSDOS BET SHEM | $35,000 |
| YESHIVA KTANA INC | $30,000 |
| CONG LEV SIMCHA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,500 |
| CONG BAIS BERLINER | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION TIFERES YAAKOV | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPLEDGER CHARITABLE LTD3× · 2022–2024 · $3.5M · revenue ×12
- MPMOSDOS PNEI MENACHEM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $838k · revenue +231% · 50% of their budget
- FOFRIENDS OF HARIM INC4× · 2021–2024 · $285k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- FCFIDELITY CHARITABLE TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $850k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $120k
- FOFRIENDS OF CHOSEN YESHIAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +89%
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.
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.
Provide support to further jewish education
Furtherance of jewish education
To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.
To promote religious observance in israel.
To further jewish education in israel
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide funds to needy individuals in the state of israel.
To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs
To benefit needy individuals and their families; to promote, foster, increase and advance the health, welfare and economic status of low income families.
To foster promote and advance theological torah study, charity, and practice of orthodox judaism worldwide
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 84 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PLEDGER CHARITABLE LTD ↗
- Who funds MOSDOS PNEI MENACHEM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOSDOT GOOR ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Birkat Haaretz Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HARIM INC ↗
- Who funds Ezra LTzedaka Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SFATH EMETH YESHIVA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHOSEN YESHIAS INC ↗
- Who funds TAHARUSAM INC ↗
- Who funds ZECHER AVROHOM INC ↗
- Who funds Ezras Yitzchok Inc ↗
- Who funds BOROUGH PARK VOLUNTEER OF HATZOLAH ↗
- Who funds KUPATH RAMBAHN KOLEL POLIN ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alternative Energy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alternative Energy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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