· Private foundation
The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $316k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILLIPS COLLECTION | $46,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $30,000 |
| KENYON COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON CENTER | $15,000 |
| ASHOKA INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC | $15,000 |
| ASPEN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS | $8,750 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TPTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION6× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +60%
KENYON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +23%- EMEastern Mennonite University8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TNTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -5%
- ZCZIRKIN CARDIAC CAREone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CCCITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Knowledge Impact Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION ↗
- Who funds Eastern Mennonite University ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds ASHOKA ↗
- Who funds OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds BIG THOMPSON WATERSHED COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS MEETING SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Knowledge Impact Network ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S COLLEGE AT WISE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · Posner-Wallace Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Gift Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.