How much does Alvarium Foundation give?

Alvarium Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,268,525 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Alvarium Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (45%), Youth Development (15%), Environment (13%).

Who are Alvarium Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc ($2.1M), Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc ($726k), Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($535k).

Does Alvarium Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Alvarium 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.

Where is Alvarium Foundation based?

Alvarium Foundation is based in MA.

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Massachusetts · Private foundation

Alvarium 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 9
Grants FY2024: 9
Organizations funded FY2023: 11%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $600,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 10; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $13M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Alvarium Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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
FY2024still arriving	8	$1.3M	0%
FY2023	9	$865k	11%
FY2022	9	$742k	0%
FY2021	10	$1.5M	10%
FY2020	9	$501k	33%
FY2019	6	$435k	17%
FY2018	5	$235k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$2.5MYouth Development$831kEnvironment$726kFood & Nutrition$535kEducation$470kCrime & Legal$410kHuman Services$75kPhilanthropy$24k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc	$2,130,000	7	3%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc	$725,694	7	0%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc	$535,000	6	0%
School on Wheels of Massachusetts Inc	$470,000	7	8%
Roca Inc	$410,000	5	0%
UTEC Inc	$322,500	5	0%
Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn	$320,000	6	2%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts Inc	$185,000	4	1%
Young Men's Christian Association Southcoast Inc	$75,000	2	0%
Artists for Humanity Inc	$3,200	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($385k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alvarium 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 10.

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About Alvarium Foundation

How much does Alvarium Foundation give?: Alvarium Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,268,525 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Alvarium Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (45%), Youth Development (15%), Environment (13%).
Who are Alvarium Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc ($2.1M), Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc ($726k), Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($535k).
Does Alvarium Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alvarium 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.
Where is Alvarium Foundation based?: Alvarium Foundation is based in MA.