New York · Private foundation
The Shana Alexander Charitable 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.
- $96k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $925k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $95k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $79k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $136k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $111k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $114k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $143k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $264k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $842k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanctuary for Families Inc | $315,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Madre Inc | $127,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $90,350 | 9 | 0% |
| Wesleyan University | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Equality Now Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fashion Institute of Technology Foundation | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Norml Foundation | $51,012 | 5 | 9% |
| Songwriters' Hall of Fame Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Youth Renewal Fund | $43,500 | 2 | n/a |
| The Campaign School Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 11% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Shana Alexander Charitable 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Peek Family Foundation Inc · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Hess Philanthropic Fund · David B Kriser Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation give?
- The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $95,744 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (32%), Civil Rights (13%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sanctuary for Families Inc ($315k), Madre Inc ($128k), Central Park Conservancy Inc ($90k).
- Does The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Shana Alexander Charitable 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 Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation based?
- The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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