New York · Private foundation
Robert and Marjorie Alpern 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.
- $79k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 60
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $459k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 49 | $79k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $56k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $56k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $96k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $123k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $85k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Performance Zone Inc | $232,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Cooperstown Food Pantry Inc | $18,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Seva Foundation | $16,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Friends of Bassett Inc | $13,150 | 5 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $5,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Catholic Relief Services | $2,850 | 5 | n/a |
| Cooperstown Art Association Inc | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Ave Philomena Inc | $2,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Susquehanna Spca Inc | $2,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($165k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert and Marjorie Alpern 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: Allstadt Hardin Foundation · The James and Stephanie Patrick Fam · The Patricia M & H William Smith Jr Foundation · The Nycm Foundation · C J Heilig Foundation Inc · The Scriven Foundation · The Tianaderrah Foundation (NY) · The Community Foundation for South Central New York Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation
- How much does Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation give?
- Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $79,160 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 60 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Philanthropy (21%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Performance Zone Inc ($233k), Cooperstown Food Pantry Inc ($19k), Seva Foundation ($17k).
- Does Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert and Marjorie Alpern 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 Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Allstadt Hardin Foundation, The James and Stephanie Patrick Fam, The Patricia M & H William Smith Jr Foundation.
- Where is Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation based?
- Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation is based in NY.
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