· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $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 |
| NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ARETHUSA FARM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $1,000 |
| DESIGN & ART TECHNOLOGY MASSACHUSETTS-MA DESIGN & ART TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
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.
How this is measured
78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BIGELOW COOPERATIVE DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alvord Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alvord Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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