· Private foundation
Alvin Goldfarb 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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $81k
- $250k+5 grants · $28M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Impact Network | $11,657,932 |
| Community Impact Network | $11,015,500 |
| NCJW | $2,592,529 |
| Historical Assn Of South Haven | $2,000,000 |
| Community Impact Network | $500,000 |
| Beyond Housing | $37,515 |
| NCJW | $31,250 |
| STAR | $12,497 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,575 |
| St Louis Symphony | $2,500 |
| The Legacy Center | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
15 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BHBEYOND HOUSING INC5× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +21%
- TWTHE WYMAN CENTER3× · 2017–2020 · $710k · revenue +10%
- PCPROSPERITY CONNECTION3× · 2017–2019 · $709k · revenue +11% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue +13%- BHBEYOND HOUSING CAPITAL FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $700k · revenue 0% · 66% of their budget
- AHAffinia Healthcaregraduatedone grant, 2017 · $350k · revenue +29%
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.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
Commonbond's mission is to build stable homes, strong futures and vibrant communities. as the largest nonprofit provider of affordable homes in the upper midwest, commonbond has been building and sustaining homes with services to families,…
All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…
The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…
Invest stl facilitates investment in the power of people and their neighborhoods to develop communities of justice and opportunity in places that continue to endure the legacy of systemic anti-black racism.
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
Community housing network's (chn) mission is to empower people to live in affordable homes to help build thriving communities.
Chn housing capital is a certified community development financial institution serving low-income individuals and distressed communities guided by the belief that homeownership should be within everyone's reach.
The st. louis integrated health network, through partnership and collaboration, is a healthcare intermediary building capacity across sectors to improve wellbeing by increasing access to health and social services.
Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 COMMUNITY IMPACT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EQUITY HOMES ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL ASSOC OF SOUTH HAVEN ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds 241 COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WYMAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROSPERITY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING CAPITAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Affinia Healthcare ↗
- Who funds The Equity Network ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds PROGRESS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND ME DOWNS ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
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: Community Impact Network · The Crawford Taylor Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alvin Goldfarb Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alvin Goldfarb Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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