Massachusetts · Private foundation
Alvord Family 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.
- $362k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $434k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Alvord Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 39 | $356k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $372k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $345k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $306k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $202k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $224k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $193k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $250k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Sisters School | $1,014,125 | 9 | 8% |
| Rehearsal for Life Inc | $302,450 | 8 | 6% |
| New Bedford Light | $242,200 | 3 | 5% |
| Connecticut College | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School | $90,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Old Dartmouth Historical Society | $35,200 | 8 | 0% |
| Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc | $26,200 | 6 | 1% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $25,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Proctor Academy | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc | $24,600 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($405k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alvord Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Island Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Enable Hope Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Alvord Family Foundation
- How much does Alvord Family Foundation give?
- Alvord Family Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $361,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Alvord Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Arts & Culture (18%), Youth Development (12%).
- Who are Alvord Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Our Sisters School ($1.0M), Rehearsal for Life Inc ($302k), New Bedford Light ($242k).
- Does Alvord Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alvord Family 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 Alvord Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, The Carney Family Charitable Foundation, Southcoast Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Alvord Family Foundation based?
- Alvord Family Foundation is based in MA.
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