New York · Private foundation
The Frances Alexander 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.
- $19k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $200k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 20% of the organizations The Frances Alexander Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $19k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $275k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $59k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $78k | 69% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $45k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $120k | 88% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $333k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $260,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $201,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Museum of Arts and Design | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| El Education Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago Media Project | $11,115 | 1 | 1% |
| Ms Foundation for Women Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Actors' Fund of America | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Frances Alexander Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Kenneth J Tedaldi Foundation Inc · The Shoreland Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About The Frances Alexander Foundation
- How much does The Frances Alexander Foundation give?
- The Frances Alexander Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $18,970 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does The Frances Alexander Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (31%), Health (12%).
- Who are The Frances Alexander Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($260k), The Trustees of the Smith College ($201k), Council on Foreign Relations Inc ($100k).
- Does The Frances Alexander Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Frances Alexander 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 Frances Alexander Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Ford Foundation, The Kenneth J Tedaldi Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Frances Alexander Foundation based?
- The Frances Alexander Foundation is based in NY.
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