· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE BRIDGE FUND OF WESTCHESTER | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $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 |
| YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Legal services & public interest law.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
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.
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
We work to shift power to community-led movements, particularly those led by black and brown people who are most affected by this legal system, so they can build sufficient power to create structural change. continued on schedule o.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 GROWING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NPR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Kinosaito 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ira & Marylou Alpert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ira & Marylou Alpert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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