· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FIELD | $40,000 |
| RICHFIELD SPRINGS VETERANS CLUB | $8,000 |
| COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY | $6,500 |
| FRIENDS OF BASSETT HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| ANGEL NETWORK CHARITY | $3,000 |
| SEVA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| COOPERSTOWN ART ASSOCIATION | $1,300 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY MIDRURAL NY | $1,000 |
| AVE PHILOMENA | $600 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $500 |
| GRIFFIN CARES FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ORPHAN ANGEL CAT SANCTUARY | $500 |
| SECOND HARVEST SILICON VALLEY | $500 |
| ST JUDE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $500 |
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 (FY21–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +19% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TPTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $233k · revenue +16%
- CFCOOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +174%
- SFSEVA FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ACALL CONTRIBUTIONS LISTED WERE PAID TO EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONSone grant, 2020 · $85k
- TCTHE CENTER FOR CREATIVE MUSICone grant, 2021 · $1k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO-PRITZKE SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 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. 42 of the 89 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 THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bassett Inc ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN ART ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVE PHILOMENA INC ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID RURAL NEW YORK 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: 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
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 Robert and Marjorie Alpern 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.