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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR SISTER'S SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD LIGHT | $100,000 |
| REHEARSAL FOR LIFE | $40,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL | $20,000 |
| ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $4,500 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| ARETHUSA FARM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE | $1,000 |
| DESIGN & ART TECHNOLOGY MASSACHUSETTS-MA DESIGN & ART TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 9 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OSOUR SISTERS SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE4× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +22%
Old Dartmouth Historical Society8× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +283%
Funded once
- DCDartmouth Collegeone grant, 2017 · $24k
- NCNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $13k
- NONATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Light and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ZEITERION THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alvord Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Rehearsal for Life Inc — 11% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra Inc — 10% of income from government
- Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Zeiterion Theatre Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.