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The Alfa Foundation at a glance

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The Alfa 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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.4MHealth$7.1MArts & Culture$800kFood & Nutrition$575kCommunity Improvement$300kPublic Safety & Disaster$250kInternational$200kHousing & Shelter$25k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL$1,250,000
RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL$500,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$250,000
NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$200,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$200,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (OPTHALMOLOGY ANNUAL FUND UNRESTRICTED)$150,000
RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL$100,000
CLUBHOUSE INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT$100,000
GREENWICH HOSPITAL$100,000
SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY$100,000
ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION$100,000
THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC$100,000
THE WRITING REVOLUTION$50,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 44% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LA: $150k → 14%THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $200k → 9%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE (ROBERT J LUCHI CLINICAL CHAIR IN GERIATRICS): $100k → 16%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $250k → 9%CO-OPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC (CARE INC): $200k → 13%THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $200k → 9%CLUBHOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $500k → 16%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $250k → 9%THE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $200k → 9%CLUBHOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250k → 16%GREENWICH HOSPITAL: $250k → 9%LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $200k → 14%RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL: $1.3M → 9%RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL: $1.3M → 9%RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL: $1.3M → 9%RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL: $500k → 9%RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL: $500k → 9%RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL: $150k → 9%RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL: $150k → 9%RIPPOWAM CISQUA SCHOOL: $150k → 9%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $250k → 17%WATERSIDE SCHOOL: $250k → 9%NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $200k → 9%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $250k → 17%WESTCHESTER MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $250k → 17%WESTCHESTER MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $250k → 17%WESTCHESTER MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $250k → 17%BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $250k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (CCTI): $250k → 17%BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $250k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (CCTI): $250k → 17%BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $250k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (CUIMCOCCC): $250k → 17%BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $250k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (CUIMCOCCC): $250k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (CUIMCOCCC): $250k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (CCTI): $250k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (CCTI): $250k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $250k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (CUIMCOCCC): $250k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (OPTHALMOLOGY ANNUAL FUND UNRESTRICTED): $150k → 17%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 20 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
11

Total granted

$15M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+1%

Still filing today

60%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TR
    The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +58%
  • BS
    BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +41%
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOSPITAL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $950k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +67%
  • IH
    INDIAN HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -61%
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
10
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
12
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eagle Hill Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Vpc Ruth Selman Scholarship Fund 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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 34 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $5,300,000 · EducationThe Rippowam Cisqua School IncTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,250,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $1,000,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INCTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $600,000 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOLWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $550,000 · EducationWATERSIDE SCHOOL INCBaylor College of Medicine: $500,000 · EducationTHE WRITING REVOLUTION INC: $400,000 · Education+2 more: $125,000 · EducationHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $1,250,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (CUIMCOCCC): $1,000,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER …COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (CCTI): $1,000,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER …WESTCHESTER MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $450,000 · OtherWESTCHESTER MEDICAL FOUNDATIONCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (OPTHALMOLOGY ANNUAL FUND UNRESTRICTED): $450,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (OPTHALMOLOGY A…SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY: $300,000 · OtherCLUBHOUSE INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT: $300,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $250,000 · OtherCO-OPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC (CARE INC): $200,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $200,000 · Other+6 more: $475,000 · Other+6 moreGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $950,000 · HealthGREENWICH HO…INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INC: $490,000 · HealthINTERNATIONA…ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · HealthST LUKE'S WO…NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $200,000 · HealthNORTHERN WES…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150,000 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…+1 more: $50,000 · HealthINDIAN HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $325,000 · Food & NutritionA WALK ON WATER INC: $150,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$9,725,000Other$5,875,000Health$2,065,000Arts & Culture$500,000Food & Nutrition$325,000Recreation & Sports$150,000

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 budgetThe Rippowam Cisqua School Inc: $5,300,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $950,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $600,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $550,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INC: $490,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetTHE WRITING REVOLUTION INC: $400,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $325,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA WALK ON WATER INC: $150,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetPIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $100,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVPC RUTH SELMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 The Rippowam Cisqua School Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THE WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WRITING REVOLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds A WALK ON WATER INC ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds VPC RUTH SELMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE HILL FOUNDATION 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.

Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Alfa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alfa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 34 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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