California · Private foundation
The Herb Alpert 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.
- $7.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 86
- Grants FY2024
- 91
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 82 to 92
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $46M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Herb Alpert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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 | 85 | $7.5M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 91 | $9.4M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 85 | $7.1M | 28% |
| FY2021 | 82 | $5.7M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 89 | $6.9M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 89 | $15M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 92 | $7.7M | 25% |
| FY2017 | 88 | $6.9M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harlem School of the Arts Inc | $12,217,500 | 8 | 81% |
| California Institute of the Arts | $2,990,251 | 4 | 1% |
| Vista del Mar Child and Family Services | $2,027,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Ps Arts | $1,867,500 | 8 | 8% |
| The Louisiana Museum Foundation | $1,670,000 | 5 | 57% |
| Chrysalis | $1,625,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Pacific Jazz Orchestra | $1,250,000 | 2 | 96% |
| Harmony Project | $1,215,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Turnaround Arts California | $800,000 | 8 | 29% |
| Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz | $750,000 | 3 | 10% |
Show all 125 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($29M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Herb Alpert Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 119 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Perenchio Foundation · Snap Foundation · Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation · The Meredith and Rosemary Willson Charit (Aka the Music Man Foundation)
How this is measured
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About The Herb Alpert Foundation
- How much does The Herb Alpert Foundation give?
- The Herb Alpert Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $7,487,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 82 and 92 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Herb Alpert Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (68%), Education (10%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are The Herb Alpert Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Harlem School of the Arts Inc ($12M), California Institute of the Arts ($3.0M), Vista del Mar Child and Family Services ($2.0M).
- Does The Herb Alpert Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Herb Alpert 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 Herb Alpert Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is The Herb Alpert Foundation based?
- The Herb Alpert Foundation is based in CA.
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