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The Alexander Firestone Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,800
Largest grant, FY2025
$18,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$136k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Alexander Firestone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180 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
InternationalPhilanthropyReligionArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving14$44k21%
FY202416$67k6%
FY202323$61k17%
FY202221$85k57%
FY20219$53k22%
FY20208$51k0%
FY20198$63k0%
FY20189$59k44%
88% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$180kReligion$105kInternational$71kPhilanthropy$69kEducation$39kArts & Culture$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
NJ
CA
DC
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

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

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Alexander Firestone Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAviv Ha Torah: $138,000 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetHebron Fund Inc: $53,800 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Ariel Inc: $36,800 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetOne Israel Fund Ltd: $32,180 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGush Etzion Foundation % Juliette Landesman: $29,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNe Eman Foundation USA: $27,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America: $15,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $11,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJust One Life Inc: $11,400 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetZaka Tel-Aviv Inc: $6,180 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $5,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Institute for Education & Research Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKimpatorin Aid Inc: $540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNoam Shabbos Inc: $360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Institute for National Security of America: $180 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 16.

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 Nathan and Marilyn Silberman FdnNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn · Jewish Communal Fund · The Tzedaka Fund · Cd Foundation · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · House of Gross Foundation Inc · E R G Foundation · Moses and Miriam Vogel Charitable Foundation Tr · The Zev and Susan Munk Family Foundation · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · The Ojc Fund

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 Alexander Firestone Foundation

How much does The Alexander Firestone Foundation give?
The Alexander Firestone Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $44,280 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Alexander Firestone Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Religion (20%), International (14%).
Who are The Alexander Firestone Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aviv Ha Torah ($138k), Hebron Fund Inc ($54k), American Friends of Ariel Inc ($37k).
Does The Alexander Firestone Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Alexander Firestone Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Alexander Firestone Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Nathan and Marilyn Silberman Fdn, Jewish Communal Fund, The Tzedaka Fund.
Where is The Alexander Firestone Foundation based?
The Alexander Firestone Foundation is based in NY.

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 33 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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