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The Alberto Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$123kPhilanthropy$83kReligion$58kHealth$54kArts & Culture$6kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$4kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$765k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
RACHEL FOUNDATION$10,000
ST PHILOMENA CHURCH$8,000
TOYS FOR TOTS$2,500
CFBNJ$2,500
EMPLOYMENT HORIZONS$1,000
KESSLER FOUNDATION$1,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH$1,000
POAC AUTISM SERVICES$1,000
NEMOURS CHILDREN HOSPITAL$1,000
CONVENANT HOUSE$500
GREATER NEWARK HOLIDAY FUND$500
ATHRITIS FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%POAC AUTISM SERVICES: $1k → 11%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $1k → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $500 → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $250 → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $250 → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $250 → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $250 → 4%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $250 → 4%GOODWILL RESCUE MISSION: $250 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 18 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against -77% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$316k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-77%

Still filing today

22%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +47%
  • RF
    RACHEL FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +3% · 34% of their budget
  • KF
    Kessler Foundation Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • PB
    PIRATE BLUE ATHLETIC FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New Jersey Health Foundation Inc

The Organization's mission is to support healthcare education, research and patient care programs in the State of New Jersey and for other scientific, charitable, literary and educational purposes.

Health
2
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey Inc

Goodwill nynj empowers people with disabilities and other barriers to employment to gain independence through the power of work. goodwill nynj provided services to more than 11,087 adults in fiscal year 2025 through all programs.

Employment
3
Healthcare Institute of New Jersey Inc

To provide advocacy, research, analysis, communication and publication of information concerning healthcare products, r & d, their manufacture and marketing as they pertain to new jersey's pharmaceutical and medical technology industry.

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4
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

—
5
Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey & Philadelphia
Employment
6
Foundation for Hackettstown Medical Center

To serve the philanthropic needs for the Hackettstown Medical Center.

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7
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc

New jersey institute for social justice (the institute), a public charity, is a newark-based urban research and advocacy organization dedicated to the advancement of new jersey's urban areas and residents.

Human Services
8
Autism New Jersey Inc

Autism New Jersey drives statewide change and creates connections through compassionate support, expert guidance, and a deep commitment to an autism-friendly New Jersey.

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9
New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Inc

The Organization's mission is to improve the safety, quality, and affordability of healthcare for everyone.

—
10
Newark Alliance Inc

To work in partnership to make newark a better, safer place to work, live, learn, play, and do business.

Philanthropy
11
Fund for New Jersey
—
12
Woods Foundation of New Jersey Inc

Support Woods Services of New Jersey, Woods Services, Inc. and other affiliates or related nonprofit organizations that are organized and operated to provide comprehensive lifecycle care management services for people with intellectual…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Employment Horizons Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rachel Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITYST PHILOMENAS CHURCH: $48,000 · OtherST PHILOMENAS CHURCHST BARNABUS MEDICAL CTR: $45,000 · OtherST BARNABUS MEDICAL CTRSETON HALL PREP ANNUAL FUND: $30,000 · OtherSETON HALL PREP ANNUAL FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSETON HALL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $12,500 · Other+20 more: $31,750 · Other+20 moreRACHEL FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyRACHEL FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyKessler Foundation Inc: $2,750 · Human ServicesPARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN POAC AUTISM SERVICES: $1,000 · Human ServicesGoodwill Rescue Mission Inc: $250 · Human ServicesEMPLOYMENT HORIZONS INC: $1,000 · Employment
Other$262,250Philanthropy$82,500Human Services$4,000Employment$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRACHEL FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 7y, 34% of budgetKessler Foundation Inc: $2,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN POAC AUTISM SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER NEWARK HOLIDAY FUND: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMPLOYMENT HORIZONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoodwill Rescue Mission Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RACHEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Kessler Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN POAC AUTISM SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEWARK HOLIDAY FUND ↗
  • Who funds EMPLOYMENT HORIZONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Goodwill Rescue Mission 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.

Verizon FoundationNJ13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Alberto Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alberto Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 54%
  • Employment Horizons Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Kessler Foundation Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Alberto Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Alberto Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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