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The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$46k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $316k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILLIPS COLLECTION$46,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$40,000
CONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION$40,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$40,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$35,000
NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP$30,000
KENYON COLLEGE$20,000
ASHOKA INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC$15,000
EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY$15,000
THE WASHINGTON CENTER$15,000
ASPEN INSTITUTE$10,000
KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS$8,750
PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
SIGNATURE THEATER$5,000
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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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KNOWLEDGE IMPACT NETWORK: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 27 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
17

Total granted

$2.2M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+30%

Still filing today

70%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentSocial ScienceInternationalOther
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

  • TP
    THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +60%
  • KENYON COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +23%
  • EM
    Eastern Mennonite University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CC
    CITYSCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -6%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -14%
  • NV
    NEW VENTURE FUND-SKILLFUL FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
The George Washington University

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…

Education
4
Furman University

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.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
Augustana College

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…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Institute for Shipboard Education

Journeys of discovery that spark bold solutions to global challenges.

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Washington & Jefferson College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
24/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN UNIVERSITYKATZEN ARTS CENTER: $305,000 · OtherAMERICAN UNIVERSITYKATZEN ARTS CENTE…COLORADO STATE FOUNDATION: $79,500 · OtherCOLORADO STATE FOUNDATIONEastern Mennonite University: $74,000 · OtherEastern Mennonite UniversityJAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS: $59,700 · OtherJAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASSTHE WASHINGTON CENTER: $45,000 · OtherTHE WASHINGTON CENTERUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA COLLEGE AT WISE: $36,000 · OtherOSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherASHOKA: $35,000 · Other+12 more: $93,065 · Other+12 moreTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $265,320 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTIONLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $214,083 · Arts & CultureLillian and Albert Small Cap…THE COLORADO EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $45,500 · Arts & CultureTHE COLORADO EDUCATION INITI…SIGNATURE THEATRE INC: $26,334 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $25,833 · Arts & CultureKENYON COLLEGE: $192,000 · EducationKENYON COLLEGEAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $135,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYCONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION: $106,000 · EducationCONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLI…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY F…PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC: $20,000 · Education+7 more: $63,667 · Education+7 moreNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP: $258,000 · Youth DevelopmentNETWORK FOR T…THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $39,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY: $24,500 · PhilanthropyLegacy Global Programs: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $55,000 · Social ScienceCOLORADO OPEN LANDS: $23,500 · EnvironmentBIG THOMPSON WATERSHED COALITION: $12,500 · Environment
Other$757,265Arts & Culture$577,070Education$571,667Youth Development$268,000Philanthropy$69,000Social Science$55,000Environment$36,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $39,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetUNITED WAY OF LARIMER COUNTY: $24,500 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,834 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
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 Community Foundat…Greater Washington Co…Colorado Gives Founda…Galena-Yorktown Found…The Morningstar Phila…Posner-Wallace Founda…The Morris and Gwendo…The Colorado Health F…The US Charitable Gif…American Gift FundIbm International Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alper Family Foundation Inc Dba the Teach to Work Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 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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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
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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