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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.

$362k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.5MArts & Culture$476kYouth Development$307kPublic Benefit$76kEnvironment$75kRecreation & Sports$56kHuman Services$48kPhilanthropy$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

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
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$434k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 8%BIGELOW COOPERATIVE DAY CARE NEW HOME CAMPAIGN: $5k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL PARTNERSHIP: $250 → 11%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $6k → 16%Rogerson Communities: $6k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $6k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $2k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $2k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $1k → 16%IMMIGRANTS ASSISTANCE CENTER: $5k → 11%IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $4k → 11%IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%IMMIGRANTS ASSISTANCE CENTER: $3k → 11%IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $2k → 11%IMMIGRANTS ASSISTANCE CENTER: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
NC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 63 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
35

Total granted

$2.5M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+2%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OS
    OUR SISTERS SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +52%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +22%
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society
    8× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +283%

Funded once

  • DC
    Dartmouth College
    one grant, 2017 · $24k
  • NC
    NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
3
Wheaton College

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…

Education
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
8
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Light; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
54/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $1,014,125 · EducationOUR SISTERS SCHOOLCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $110,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGETHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $90,000 · EducationTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOLTrustees of Dartmouth College: $69,400 · Education+11 more: $82,250 · Education+11 moreREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $302,450 · Arts & CultureREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INCNEW BEDFORD LIGHT: $242,200 · Arts & CultureNEW BEDFORD LIGHTOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $35,200 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $25,500 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $97,650 · Arts & Culture+13 moreLOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOLLOOMIS INSTITUTE: $116,500 · OtherLOOMIS CHAFFEE SCH…NEW BEDFORD LIGHTTHE GROUND TRUTHPROJECT: $75,900 · OtherNEW BEDFORD LIGHTT…FRIENDS OF DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL: $40,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF DARTMOU…MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $37,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ART…Dartmouth College: $23,500 · OtherDartmouth CollegeIndividual grant recipient: $20,750 · OtherNEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $18,700 · Other+45 more: $102,250 · Other+45 moreLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $26,200 · EnvironmentWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $24,600 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $7,250 · EnvironmentCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $5,000 · Environment+6 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesBIGELOW COOPERATIVE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $2,250 · PhilanthropyMILL REEF FUND: $1,800 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,500 · HealthCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $2,000 · HealthJUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $1,000 · HealthCommunity Nurse Inc: $750 · HealthMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $500 · Health
Education$1,365,775Arts & Culture$703,000Other$434,600Environment$75,550Human Services$46,750Philanthropy$11,050Health$7,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $1,014,125 over 9y, 8.0% of budgetREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $302,450 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetNEW BEDFORD LIGHT: $242,200 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $69,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $35,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $26,200 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $25,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $24,600 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $22,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC: $21,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $20,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetZEITERION THEATRE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $17,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $16,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $7,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $5,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIGELOW COOPERATIVE DAY CARE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Opportunities Unlimited Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILL REEF FUND: $1,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BEDFORD YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Boston Foundation IncMA45.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 260%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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