· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA FOUNDATION UCLA HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $1,300,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $1,152,400 |
| THE HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $800,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE SUMMER SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $424,300 |
| GOOD PEOPLE FUND | $400,000 |
| HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ | $250,000 |
| PACIFIC JAZZ ORCHESTRA | $250,000 |
| PS ARTS | $240,000 |
| CHRYSALIS | $200,000 |
| THE HARMONY PROJECT | $150,000 |
| LA CITY COLLEGE | $110,000 |
| FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $100,000 |
| LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FULCRUM ARTS FBO SAPPA | $100,000 |
| TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
119 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +6% · 81% of their budget
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS4× · 2017–2020 · $3.0M · revenue +30%
- VDVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES5× · 2017–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- HHHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $500k
- TATHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICAone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -33%
- NONEW ORLEANS ARTS & CULTURAL HOST COMMITTEEone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -57% · 58% of their budget
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.
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.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The ojai music festival serves as a creative music laboratory for pioneering new works,championing adventurous programming, and working with today's emerging artists with events during the year and the ojai music festival serves as a…
Diavolo dance theatre is a creative movement production company that explores innovation by creating unique live, cinematic, digital and media experiences. its mission is to create socially relevant work that celebrates the diversity and…
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
Inner-city arts believes that the arts and creativity are transformational, and we envision a society that honors the human capacity for creativity, and values its cultivation in the education of young people. inner-city arts uses arts…
The colburn school's founding principle of "access to excellence" provides a performance-centered education with unparalleled faculty and facilities for all levels of development, instills the joy and discipline of the performing arts,…
Sound art dba in the band is dedicated to empowering the youth of los angeles and beyond through access to music education and mentoring in community centers, schools and online. founded to fulfill the need for an affordable and culturally…
How this is measured
127 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 127 of the 215 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PS ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pacific Jazz Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Harmony Project ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND ARTS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ HOUSE KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VENICE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ASCAP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS ARTS & CULTURAL HOST COMMITTEE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Herb Alpert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Herb Alpert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jazz House Kids Inc: 29% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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