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The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$147k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$147k37%
FY202418$143k33%
FY202319$131k47%
FY202219$166k63%
FY202111$151k45%
FY202011$123k73%
FY201910$103k40%
FY201811$105k55%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$248kFood & Nutrition$163kHuman Services$135kHealth$102kCommunity Improvement$94kEducation$88kHousing & Shelter$88kYouth Development$76kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
CA
NC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Milk With Dignity Standards Council Inc$60,00034%
Learning Outside Inc$55,00053%
Ipswich River Watershed Association$40,00041%
Working Landscapes$40,00033%
The Garden School of Beverly Inc$35,000323%
Rosie's Place Inc$35,00030%
Susu Community Farm Inc$35,00022%
Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County$35,00043%
Beyond Now Foundation$30,0003n/a
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$30,00030%
Show all 49 grantees
All grantees of The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Milk With Dignity Standards Council Inc$60,00034%
Learning Outside Inc$55,00053%
Ipswich River Watershed Association$40,00041%
Working Landscapes$40,00033%
The Garden School of Beverly Inc$35,000323%
Rosie's Place Inc$35,00030%
Susu Community Farm Inc$35,00022%
Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County$35,00043%
Beyond Now Foundation$30,0003n/a
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$30,00030%
El Centro Hispano Inc$30,00021%
Land Trust Alliance Inc$30,00020%
Upper Valley Haven$30,00020%
Edmonds Tennis and Education Founda$29,500316%
Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc$25,00020%
High Spirit Community Farm Inc$25,00022%
Sunrise Fund Inc$25,000213%
Keeping Track Inc$22,5003n/a
Transplanting Traditions Community Farm$22,00021%
The Epiphany School Inc$22,00020%
Root Ns Inc$20,00021%
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc$20,00020%
Three Sisters Garden Project Inc$20,00023%
Vermont College of Fine Arts Inc$20,00010%
Essex Art Center Inc$17,50022%
Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc$17,00021%
Safeart Inc$15,00017%
Rural Advancement Foundation Internation$15,00010%
Ipswich Refugee Program Incorporated$15,000116%
The Uli Foundation$15,00010%
Healing Abuse Working for Change Inc$15,00011%
The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc$10,00011%
Shelburne Farms$10,0001n/a
Buttonwood Park Zoological Society Inc$10,0001n/a
Essex County Trail Association Inc$10,0001n/a
Second Growth Inc$8,00014%
Montserrat College Of Art Inc$5,00010%
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation$5,00010%
Refugee Community Partnership Inc$4,00040%
Work to Ride Inc$4,00030%
Grassroots Ecology$3,00030%
Maine Cancer Foundation$3,0001n/a
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc$2,00020%
Squam Lakes Association$2,00020%
Marine Megafauna Foundation$1,00010%
The Agrihood Collective Inc$1,0001n/a
Intervale Center Inc$1,00010%
The Food Project Inc$1,00010%
A Better Chance a Better Community$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($238k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMilk With Dignity Standards Council Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLearning Outside Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetIpswich River Watershed Association: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWorking Landscapes: $40,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetThe Garden School of Beverly Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSusu Community Farm Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHispanic Liaison of Chatham County: $35,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEl Centro Hispano Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLand Trust Alliance Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUpper Valley Haven: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEdmonds Tennis and Education Founda: $29,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetCenter for an Agricultural Economy Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHigh Spirit Community Farm Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSunrise Fund Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTransplanting Traditions Community Farm: $22,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Epiphany School Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRoot Ns Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThree Sisters Garden Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetVermont College of Fine Arts Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEssex Art Center Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWindrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSafeart Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetRural Advancement Foundation Internation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIpswich Refugee Program Incorporated: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetThe Uli Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealing Abuse Working for Change Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Dorset Equine Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSecond Growth Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMontserrat College Of Art Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Wilderness Trust Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee Community Partnership Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWork to Ride Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGrassroots Ecology: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Sustainable Jobs Fund Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSquam Lakes Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Megafauna Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntervale Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 41.

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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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT23.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc

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.

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About The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606

How much does The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 give?
The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 reported 19 grants totaling $147,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (21%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Human Services (12%).
Who are The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Milk With Dignity Standards Council Inc ($60k), Learning Outside Inc ($55k), Ipswich River Watershed Association ($40k).
Does The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Essex County Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 based?
The Alces Foundation 7549-Xxxxxx12606 is based in MA.

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 67 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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