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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.

$345k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$46,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$5.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman 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
FY2024still arriving17$345k12%
FY202320$325k20%
FY202227$350k22%
FY202119$261k21%
FY202019$284k21%
FY201917$260k29%
FY201815$221k27%
FY201717$218kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$911kEducation$661kYouth Development$268kPhilanthropy$159kPublic Benefit$106kSocial Science$55kEnvironment$54kInternational$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Phillips Collection$265,32060%
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship$258,00080%
Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum$214,08371%
Kenyon College$192,00080%
American University$135,00020%
Convergence Center for Policy Resolution$106,00072%
Eastern Mennonite University$74,00080%
Colorado State University Foundation$55,00020%
The Aspen Institute Inc$55,00080%
The Colorado Education Initiative$45,50060%
Ashoka$35,00050%
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University$30,00031%
Signature Theatre Inc$26,33470%
Colorado Open Lands$23,50040%
Palm Beach State College Fdn Inc$20,00040%
Colorado Community College System Foundation$17,50020%
Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology$15,00030%
Big Thompson Watershed Coalition$12,50022%
Cityschools Collaborative$10,00010%
The National Mentoring Partnership Inc$10,00010%
John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts$10,00010%
Friends Meeting School Incorporated$6,16720%
California State University Northridge Foundation$5,00010%
Legacy Global Programs$5,00011%
The University of Virginia's College at Wise Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Knowledge Impact Network$5,00013%
University of Northern Colorado Foundation$5,00010%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$5,00010%
Washington Hebrew Congregation$5,0001n/a
Smithsonian Institution$5,00010%
The Studio Theatre Inc$3,33310%
Palm Beach Dramaworks Inc$2,5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($601k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Phillips Collection: $265,320 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNetwork for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $258,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $214,083 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetKenyon College: $192,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican University: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConvergence Center for Policy Resolution: $106,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetEastern Mennonite University: $74,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetColorado State University Foundation: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $55,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Colorado Education Initiative: $45,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAshoka: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOsher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSignature Theatre Inc: $26,334 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Open Lands: $23,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach State College Fdn Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Community College System Foundation: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBenjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Thompson Watershed Coalition: $12,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCityschools Collaborative: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe National Mentoring Partnership Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJohn F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends Meeting School Incorporated: $6,167 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia State University Northridge Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy Global Programs: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe University of Virginia's College at Wise Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKnowledge Impact Network: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUniversity of Northern Colorado Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc: $3,333 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 30.

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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 Community Foundation IncVA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation

How much does The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation give?
The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $345,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Education (28%), Youth Development (11%).
Who are The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Phillips Collection ($265k), Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship ($258k), Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ($214k).
Does The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Colorado Gives Foundation.
Where is The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation based?
The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation is based in MD.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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