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Ira & Marylou Alpert 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $14,000 |
| REALNESS PROJECT | $6,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE BRIDGE FUND OF WESTCHESTER | $5,000 |
| AFYA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBOR'S LINK | $4,000 |
| CHEF ANN FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| MEDIATORS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GROWING HOME | $2,500 |
| DANCE TO BE FREE | $2,000 |
| RETURN TO FREEDOM | $2,000 |
| NPR FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| KATONAH MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SCST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN5× · 2021–2025 · $58k · revenue +14%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +10%
- TATHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- RRECONSIDERone grant, 2023 · $10k
- KMKATONAH MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +12%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mediators Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dance to Be Free. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PEACEJAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds REALNESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS LINK CORP ↗
- Who funds CHEF ANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANCE TO BE FREE ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds RETURN TO FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds NPR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Kinosaito Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ira & Marylou Alpert Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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