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The Helen D Rodbell - Alpert Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Helen D Rodbell - Alpert Family Foundation Inc

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.

$187k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$431kReligion$173kFood & Nutrition$35kEducation$32kHuman Services$18kPhilanthropy$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$640k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACOB'S PILLOW$50,003
DANCERS RESPONDING TO AIDS$50,000
BODY TRAFFIC$32,500
HOLOCUST MUSEUM LA$25,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$15,000
USC GLORYA KAUFMAN SCHOOL OF DANCE$10,000
STREB INC$2,500
UPPER EAST SIDE HATZOLAH$1,800
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 (FY18–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $10k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $5k → 14%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$610k · 12 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
20

Total granted

$610k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+22%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalHealthEducationHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JP
    JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $266k · revenue +43%
  • UF
    UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN
    2× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +15%
  • UE
    Upper East Side Hatzolah Inc
    6× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JOE NAMATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +48%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • TA
    THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +16%
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
Los Angeles International Dance Festival
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2
Move(Nyc) Foundation Inc

Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…

Public Benefit
3
Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc

Park avenue armory's mission is to enable a diverse range of artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to experience epic, adventurous, relevant work that cannot be done elsewhere in new york. with its soaring…

Arts & Culture
4
New York City Ballet Inc

Perform, promote and sustain classical ballet.

Arts & Culture
5
Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
7
The Diller-Quaile School of Music Inc

For more than a century, diller-quaile has offered an environment where music can flourish in all its aspects, enriching the lives of students of all ages and cultural backgrounds. the belief that music is a fundamental part of human life…

Arts & Culture
8
The New Group Inc

The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…

Arts & Culture
9
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
10
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc

Alvin ailey dance foundation's mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader alvin ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education,…

Arts & Culture
11
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
12
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Works and Process Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Joe Namath Charitable Foundation. 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

22 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. 22 of the 35 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $265,503 · Arts & CultureJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INCBODY TRAFFIC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureBODY TRAFFICHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LA: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHOLOCAUST MUSEUM LAPS 21 INC: $14,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $13,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN: $170,000 · OtherNEW YORK PRESBYTERIANDANCERS RESPONDING TO AIDS: $67,300 · OtherDANCERS RESPONDING TO AIDSIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherUCLA: $12,500 · Other+9 more: $40,900 · Other+9 morePROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $35,000 · HealthUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $11,100 · HealthTHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $10,000 · EducationSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $9,500 · EducationTHE JOE NAMATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RICHARD J O'BRIEN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $180 · PhilanthropyUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $15,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,600 · InternationalANGEL SHINE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · InternationalMACCABI USA INC: $1,800 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$350,503Other$305,700Health$46,100Education$19,500Philanthropy$16,180Human Services$15,000International$6,100Recreation & Sports$1,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC: $265,503 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBODY TRAFFIC: $32,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOE NAMATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPS 21 INC: $14,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetUpper East Side Hatzolah Inc: $11,100 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT ADVOCACY INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTREB INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL SHINE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACCABI USA INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RICHARD J O'BRIEN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWORKS AND PROCESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetETHELS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $180 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.

Jewish Communal FundNew Music USA IncThe Howard Gilman Fou…New England Foundatio…Mid Atlantic Arts IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY14.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · New Music USA Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Helen D Rodbell - Alpert Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helen D Rodbell - Alpert Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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