Alabama · Private foundation
Lisa and Alan Engel 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.
- $189k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 74
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $91k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 70 | $189k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $117k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $179k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 74 | $183k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $209k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $164k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Israel Education Foundation Inc | $115,016 | 3 | 0% |
| Chabad of Alabama | $81,814 | 6 | n/a |
| N E Miles Jewish Day School | $57,580 | 6 | 2% |
| Indian Springs School | $53,900 | 6 | 2% |
| Northwestern University | $47,150 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $42,550 | 3 | 0% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $37,100 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Collat Jewish Family Services of Birmingham | $29,850 | 6 | 0% |
| Alabama Alliance Network | $25,000 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 104 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($306k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Ronne & Donald Hess Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Hackney Foundation · The Maynard Nexsen Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation
- How much does Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation give?
- Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $189,229 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 74 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Education (17%), International (16%).
- Who are Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: American Israel Education Foundation Inc ($115k), Chabad of Alabama ($82k), N E Miles Jewish Day School ($58k).
- Does Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Protective Life Foundation, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.
- Where is Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation based?
- Lisa and Alan Engel Foundation is based in AL.
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