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E Bryce & Harriet Alpern Foundation at a glance

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E Bryce & Harriet Alpern Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$212k
Granted FY2021
32
Grants FY2021
10
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of E Bryce & Harriet Alpern Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year E Bryce & Harriet Alpern Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $212k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$918kHealth$203kEnvironment$173kArts & Culture$114kCivil Rights$87kHuman Services$47kEducation$46kFood & Nutrition$44kOther$0
02FY2021 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k21 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $140k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$16,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$16,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$16,000
JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY$13,000
A WIDER CIRCLE$13,000
MANNA FOOD CENTER$13,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$11,000
REACH INSTITUTE$11,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$10,986
ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON$8,000
C & O CANAL TRUST$7,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICES$7,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITYWAMU 885 FM$5,000
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 (FY17–21, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $3k → 8%JEWISH COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $3k → 8%JEWISH COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $2k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $13k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $6k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $5k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $5k → 8%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

IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
MD
NM
DC
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of E Bryce & Harriet Alpern Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 18% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 13%.

E Bryce & Harriet Alpern Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$757k · 38 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2021, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
2

Total granted

$757k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+39%

Still filing today

74%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $52k · revenue +102%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $43k · revenue +53%
  • MF
    MANNA FOOD CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $42k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA CHAPTER
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +39%
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.

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Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
4
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Biblical Archaeology Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 44 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
28/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $878,445 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+1 more: $21,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY: $33,000 · OtherTHE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVA…THE REACH INSTITUTE RESOURCE FOR ADVANCING CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $32,000 · OtherTHE REACH INSTITUTE RESOURC…CHADD INC CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER: $26,000 · OtherCHADD INC CHILDREN AND ADUL…NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $26,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE …TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $21,000 · OtherAMERICAN UNIVERSITYWAMU 885 FM: $15,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL OCD FOUNDATION RESEARCH GRANT FUND: $15,000 · OtherA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $46,000 · OtherA WIDER CIRCLE INCMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $42,000 · OtherMANNA FOOD CENTER INCAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $31,000 · OtherAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVI…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $27,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER…+13 more: $91,500 · Other+13 moreSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $46,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CL…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAK…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $27,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL R…C&O CANAL TRUST INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentC&O CANAL…THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $10,500 · EnvironmentTHE POTOM…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $32,986 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $28,500 · HealthInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $14,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $11,500 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $11,380 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $51,500 · Civil RightsJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $39,000 · Human ServicesGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: $8,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$899,445Other$405,500Environment$146,500Health$96,486Arts & Culture$52,880Civil Rights$51,500Human Services$47,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $878,445 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $51,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD CENTER INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $39,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSERVANCY: $33,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $32,986 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REACH INSTITUTE RESOURCE FOR ADVANCING CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $32,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $28,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHADD INC CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER: $26,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetC&O CANAL TRUST INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOME INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STRATHMORE HALL FOUNDATION INC: $11,380 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBiblical Archaeology Society: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ABRAHAM INITIATIVES INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN INCORPORATED: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $2,000 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.

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 Fou…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ibm International FoundationNY12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 E Bryce & Harriet Alpern Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E Bryce & Harriet Alpern Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Chadd Inc Children and Adults With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: 31% of income from government
  • Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: 28% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Manna Food Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 44 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home