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The Frances Alexander Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$461kArts & Culture$377kHealth$145kInternational$104kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kCivil Rights$17kYouth Development$15kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$200k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WLIW$5,000
THE EDUCATION FUND OF THE WOMEN FORUM INC$5,000
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$1,500
QUOGUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
JEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER$1,000
NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY$1,000
QUOGUE FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
FOUNTAIN HOUSE$1,000
WACHUSETT GREENWAYS$1,000
EAST END HOSPICE$1,000
FRIENDS OF WESTHAMPTON AMBULANCE$250
QUOGUE CHAMBER MUSIC INC$220
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 (FY18–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%EAST END HOSPICE: $1k → 7%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%COMMUNITY IMPACT INC: $1k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CT
TN
DC
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$720k · 21 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
38

Total granted

$720k
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+16%

Still filing today

95%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    2× · 2017–2020 · $260k · revenue +58%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2022 · $201k · revenue +31%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER NEW YORK REGION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundationsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +59%
  • EE
    EL EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -22%
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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Manhattanville University

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

Education
3
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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4
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
5
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

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

Education
8
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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9
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
10
The Trustees of the New York Society Library

The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

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11
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ripley 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

49 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. 49 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $201,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGETHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $172,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN TH…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $25,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox a…EL EDUCATION INC: $15,000 · Education+5 more: $25,000 · Education+5 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $260,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $55,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN+10 more: $24,220 · Arts & Culture+10 moreAMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER NEW YORK REGION: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROS…THE GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS: $12,000 · OtherTHE GIRL SCOUT CO…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant …COLUMBIA COLLEGE EVENTS AND PROGRAMS: $10,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA COLLEGE …THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF…COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: $10,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSI…MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $11,000 · OtherMS FOUNDATION FOR…THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $10,000 · OtherTHE ACTORS' FUND …ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S DRUG …WOMEN'S FORUM OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · OtherWOMEN'S FORUM OF …+26 more: $64,550 · Other+26 moreMAYO CLINIC: $110,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 · HealthLUPUS RESEA…+2 more: $3,000 · HealthCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $100,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL O…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesEast End Hospice Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY IMPACT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT: $11,115 · Public Benefit
Education$438,500Arts & Culture$339,220Other$182,550Health$123,000International$101,000Human Services$15,500Public Benefit$11,115

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 budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $260,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $201,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $172,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL EDUCATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT: $11,115 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FORUM OF NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS ARMSTRONG HOUSE MUSEUM: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWilliams College: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROOSEVELT ISLAND DAY NURSERY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIPLEY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater NY Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWACHUSETT GREENWAYS INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetQUOGUE JUNIOR THEATER TROUPE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetQUOGUE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUOGUE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY IMPACT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF AMERICAN FINANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIDEO VOLUNTEERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WESTHAMPTON AMBULANCE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUOGUE CHAMBER MUSIC INC: $220 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ford FoundationThe Kenneth J Tedaldi…The Shoreland Foundat…Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Bessemer Giving F…The Ayco Charitable F…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY15.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Frances Alexander Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frances Alexander 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Wachusett Greenways Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Jewish Healthcare Center Inc: 15% of income from government
  • American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 68 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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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