· Private foundation
The Alben 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $51,500 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THE SUN VALLEY WRITERS CONFERENCE | $6,200 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS | $4,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $4,000 |
| PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE | $3,650 |
| GAGE ACADEMY OF THE ARTS | $2,936 |
| HILLEL AT UCLA | $2,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,900 |
| STREET YOUTH MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| MOHAI | $1,204 |
| YOUTH THEATRE NW | $1,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR GUN RESPONSIBILITY | $500 |
| WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of The Alben Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 92% 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
SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +42%- HAHILLEL AT UCLA5× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +16%
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- FOFUTURE OF PRIVACY FORUM EDUCATION AND INNOVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $7k
- MHMIRACLE HOUSE GUILDone grant, 2023 · $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.
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The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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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.
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Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
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To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 57 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds PIECE BY PIECE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REDISTRICTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWSITIVE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STREET YOUTH MINITRIES ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Alben Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alben Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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