Delaware · Private foundation
Alternative Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $390k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $134,742
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Alternative Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $390k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $325k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $250k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $270k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $387k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $227k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey Park Project | $665,000 | 5 | 38% |
| Warrenconner Development Coalition | $293,508 | 2 | 9% |
| Developing Kingdoms in Different Stages | $264,742 | 3 | 3% |
| Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy | $195,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Nw Goldberg Cares Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Life Remodeled | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Cinnaire Lending Corporation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Midnight Golf Program | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Fenn School | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Keep Growing Detroit | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey Park Project | $665,000 | 5 | 38% |
| Warrenconner Development Coalition | $293,508 | 2 | 9% |
| Developing Kingdoms in Different Stages | $264,742 | 3 | 3% |
| Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy | $195,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Nw Goldberg Cares Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Life Remodeled | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Cinnaire Lending Corporation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Midnight Golf Program | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Fenn School | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Keep Growing Detroit | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Doing Development Differently in Metro Detroit (D4) Coalition Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Street Democracy | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
Where it is load-bearing
Alternative Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 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: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Skillman Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · McGregor Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Alternative Foundation
- How much does Alternative Foundation give?
- Alternative Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $389,742 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Alternative Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (47%), Community Improvement (28%), Education (11%).
- Who are Alternative Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bailey Park Project ($665k), Warrenconner Development Coalition ($294k), Developing Kingdoms in Different Stages ($265k).
- Does Alternative Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alternative Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alternative Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Skillman Foundation.
- Where is Alternative Foundation based?
- Alternative Foundation is based in DE.
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