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Courtney Alperin Tte J Alperin Foundation C Alperin Fund

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.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$235kEducation$65kFood & Nutrition$38kInternational$31kEnvironment$25kHealth$10kYouth Development$5kAnimals$3k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DALLAS OPERA$50,000
ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$30,000
FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD$10,000
THE STEWPOT$10,000
KERA - NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MINNESOTA OPERA: $8k → 11%MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO: $5k → 14%ANIMAL SHELTERS VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS: $1k → 9%ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $30k → 10%DALLAS ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDEN RESERVATIONS: $10k → 14%BELLY RUBS BASSET RESCUE: $2k → 19%GUTHRIE THEATER: $5k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $5k → 14%ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $10k → 10%DALLAS ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDEN RESERVATIONS: $10k → 14%THEATER LATTE DA: $13k → 11%THE GOOD ACRE: $8k → 14%ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $10k → 10%DALLAS ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDEN RESERVATIONS: $5k → 14%THEATER LATTE DA: $10k → 11%ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $10k → 10%THE STEWPOT: $20k → 14%THEATER LATTE DA: $10k → 11%ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $5k → 10%THE STEWPOT: $10k → 14%THE DALLAS OPERA: $50k → 14%THE DALLAS OPERA: $25k → 14%THE DALLAS OPERA: $20k → 14%KERA - NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $20k → 14%KERA - NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $15k → 14%THE DALLAS OPERA: $15k → 14%KERA - NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10k → 14%THE DALLAS OPERA: $10k → 14%KERA - NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10k → 14%KERA - NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10k → 14%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$369k · 7 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$369k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+42%

Still filing today

43%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • TD
    The Dallas Opera
    5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +61%
  • TL
    THEATER LATTE DA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $33k · revenue +22%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD
    5× · 2021–2025 · $31k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • TM
    The Minnesota Operagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +42%
  • TG
    THE GOOD ACREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +124%
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
Theater Mu Incorporated

Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
3
Park Square Theatre

To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

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4
Minnesota Orchestral Association

The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
5
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
6
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society

To enrich the Twin Cities community by sharing distinctive and engaging chamber orchestra performances. We are committed to inclusivity and strive to provide all people in our community with opportunities to connect with our music.

Arts & Culture
7
Lyric Opera of the North

Present opera performances in duluth, minnesota and bring opera to schools in minnesota and wisconsin.

Arts & Culture
8
Children's Theatre Company and School

Children's Theatre Company exists to create extraordinary theater experiences that educate, challenge, and inspire young people and their communities.

Arts & Culture
9
The Great Northern Winter Festival

The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…

Arts & Culture
10
Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Please see schedule o for the complete mission statement.berkeley repertory theatre creates ambitious theatre that entertains and challenges its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people to experience the world in new and…

Arts & Culture
11
The Royal National Theatre

Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…

Arts & Culture
12
Twin Cities Public Television Inc

The mission of twin cities public television, inc. (tpt) is to enrich lives and strengthen our community through the power of media.see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guthrie Theater Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Animal Shelter Volunteers of Texas 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

9 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. 9 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $65,000 · OtherST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLKERA - NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $65,000 · OtherKERA - NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTINGTHE STEWPOT: $30,000 · OtherTHE STEWPOTDALLAS ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDEN RESERVATIONS: $25,000 · OtherDALLAS ARBORETUM & BOTANICAL GARDEN RESERVATIONS+2 more: $7,000 · OtherThe Dallas Opera: $120,000 · Arts & CultureThe Dallas OperaTHEATER LATTE DA: $32,500 · Arts & CultureTHEATER LATTE DAThe Minnesota Opera: $7,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreFRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD: $31,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF …PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…THE GOOD ACRE: $7,500 · Food & NutritionANIMAL SHELTER VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS INC: $1,000 · Animals
Other$192,000Arts & Culture$170,000Health$41,000Food & Nutrition$7,500Animals$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Dallas Opera: $120,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATER LATTE DA: $32,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD: $31,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD ACRE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $5,000 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 The Dallas Opera ↗
  • Who funds THEATER LATTE DA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Minnesota Opera ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD ACRE ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER VOLUNTEERS OF TEXAS 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.

Ibm International FoundationNY13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Courtney Alperin Tte J Alperin Foundation C Alperin Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Courtney Alperin Tte J Alperin Foundation C Alperin Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 15 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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