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Historic Alexandria Foundation

Through advocacy, grants, awards, and recognition programs we encourage public participation and appreciation of our cultural heritage.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$141kPublic Benefit$135kEducation$40kEnvironment$20kRecreation & Sports$7kReligion$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $27,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $35,743 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,243 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TALL SHIP PROVIDENCE$10,000
CITY OF ALEXANDRIA$7,500
LEE-FENDALL HOUSE$5,000
SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Alexandria Elks Lodge #48: $7k → 6%Scholarship Fund of Alexandria: $5k → 9%The Garden Club of Alexandria: $10k → 22%Vernacular Architecture Forum: $5k → 11%Alexandria Elks Lodge #48: $3k → 6%Scholarship Fund of Alexandria: $5k → 9%History Revealed Inc: $5k → 6%Scholarship Fund of Alexandria: $5k → 9%AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $10k → 6%City of Alexandria (Murray Dick Fawcett): $100k → 9%History Revealed Inc: $5k → 6%Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association: $15k → 9%The Basilica School of St Mary: $15k → 9%Northern VA Fine Arts Association: $12k → 9%TALL SHIP PROVIDENCE: $10k → 9%TALL SHIP PROVIDENCE: $10k → 9%Northern Virginia Fine Arts Assoc: $10k → 9%City of Alexandria (Stabler-Leadbeater): $10k → 9%Lee-Fendall House Museum: $10k → 9%City of Alexandria (OHA): $10k → 9%CITY OF ALEXANDRIA: $8k → 9%ALEXANDRIA VA ELKS LODGE #48: $7k → 9%City of Alexandria (Archeology): $7k → 9%City of Alexandria (Alex Archeology): $5k → 9%Lee-Fendall House Museum: $5k → 9%Lee-Fendall House Museum: $5k → 9%LEE-FENDALL HOUSE: $5k → 9%Lee-Fendall House Museum: $5k → 9%Lee-Fendall House Museum: $5k → 9%Stabler-Leadbetter Apothecary Museum: $5k → 9%City of Alexandria (OHA): $5k → 9%Old Presbyterian Meeting House: $5k → 9%SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA: $5k → 9%SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA: $5k → 9%Athenaeum: $5k → 9%CITY OF ALEXANDRIA: $5k → 9%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.
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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 81% of Historic Alexandria Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 19%.

Historic Alexandria 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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$176k · 9 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -63% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$176k
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-63%

Still filing today

44%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & CultureEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • NV
    NORTHERN VIRGINIA FINE ARTS ASSOC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $37k · revenue -35%
  • VT
    Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation Lee-Fendall House Museum and Gardens
    5× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • TS
    THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue -13%

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Alexandria (Murray Dick Fawcett)
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • BO
    BASILICA OF ST MARY
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • AH
    AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -66%
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
1/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Alexandria (Murray Dick Fawcett): $100,000 · OtherCity of Alexandria (Murray Dick Fawcett)CITY OF ALEXANDRIA: $21,600 · OtherCITY OF ALEXANDRIABASILICA OF ST MARY: $15,000 · OtherBASILICA OF ST MARYCity of Alexandria (OHA): $14,500 · OtherCity of Alexandria (OHA)CITY OF ALEXANDRIA: $12,500 · OtherCITY OF ALEXANDRIALee-Fendall House Museum: $10,000 · OtherALEXANDRIA LODGE NUMBERED FORTY-EIGHT: $10,000 · OtherHISTORY REVEALED: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $27,267 · Other+5 moreNORTHERN VIRGINIA FINE ARTS ASSOC: $37,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN VIRGINIA FINE ART…Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation Lee-Fendall House Museum and Gardens: $25,000 · Arts & CultureVirginia Trust for Histori…Tall Ship Providence Foundation: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTall Ship Providence Found…THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · EnvironmentGARDEN CLUB OF ALEXANDRIA: $10,000 · Environment
Other$220,867Arts & Culture$82,000Education$25,000Environment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN VIRGINIA FINE ARTS ASSOC: $37,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetVirginia Trust for Historic Preservation Lee-Fendall House Museum and Gardens: $25,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTall Ship Providence Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARDEN CLUB OF ALEXANDRIA: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHE VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE FORUM: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 NORTHERN VIRGINIA FINE ARTS ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation Lee-Fendall House Museum and Gardens ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF ALEXANDRIA ↗
  • Who funds Tall Ship Providence Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GARDEN CLUB OF ALEXANDRIA ↗
  • Who funds THE VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE FORUM ↗

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.

Act for AlexandriaDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Act for AlexandriaVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Act for Alexandria · 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 Historic Alexandria Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Historic Alexandria Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Historic Alexandria Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Historic Alexandria Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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 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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