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.

The Alexander Firestone Foundation

The Alexander Firestone Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Alexander Firestone Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$18k

Largest

01What it funds

0188% 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

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $26k
$10k–50k1 grant · $18k

$1,800

Median grant

States reached

$136k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AVIV HATORAH	$18,000
CHMOL	$6,000
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA	$6,000
ZAKA	$6,000
RELIGOUS ZIONISTS OF AMERICA	$1,800
THE HEBRON FUND	$1,800
STAND WITH US	$1,800
JUST ONE LIFE	$1,800
Individual grant recipient	$180
TELSHE YESHIVA	$180
FLAME	$180
DISKIN ORPHAN HOME	$180
NOAM SHABBOS	$180
KEREN HAYELED	$180

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $540) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$503k · 25 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$503k

$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+6%

Still filing today

60%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalPhilanthropyReligionEducationArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

AH
AVIV HA TORAH
9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +58%
HF
HEBRON FUND INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +110%
AF
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $37k · revenue +39%

Funded once

SI
SOUTHERN INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION & RESEARCH INC
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -95%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $2k
AF
AMERICA-ISRAEL FRIENDSHIP LEAUGE
one grant, 2018 · $300

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.

Sherit Isroel

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Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

Etzion Foundation Inc co H Silvera

Etzion Foundation supports Yeshivat Har Etzion and its affiliated educational programs and is dedicated to fostering development of Jewish education and Jewish leadership in Israel and around the world.

Religion

American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion

Humanitarian Partnership for Israel

Providing financial assistance to needy individuals as well as to other charitable, educational, and religious organizations in israel and worldwide

Philanthropy

Idf Memorial Foundation

Philanthropy

American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion

Friends of Jerusalem

Friends of Jerusalem's mission is to provide assistance to the needs and indigent living in Jerusalem and all of Israel.

Human Services

American Friends of Neveh Zion

To voluntarily assist the house of religious learning known as yeshiva neveh zion in israel

Religion

Adi Israel Foundation Inc

Aleh Israel Foundation, Inc.(The Foundation)is a Foundation that provides support to rehabilitative centers caring for most severely disabled children in Israel.

International

The Shalem Foundation

To promote and foster the creation of a zionist intellectual infrastructure for the state of israel, the development of a jewish national culture, and the establishment and promotion of intellectual and economic liberty.

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Israel Fund Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America. 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

18 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. 18 of the 33 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

14/18

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$249,160Other$135,180Philanthropy$75,580Education$36,800Arts & Culture$25,000Religion$720Human Services$540

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home