· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $19,000 |
| SOCIETY OF MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $16,000 |
| MADRE | $15,000 |
| HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH | $11,000 |
| HOSPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER | $4,500 |
| CASITA MARIA INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MUSICIANS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATIO | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LIGHTHOUSE GUILD | $2,500 |
| GLADES ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| TIDES CENTER - PALESTINE LEGAL | $1,500 |
| IRISH ARTS CENTER | $1,000 |
| PETER MATTHIESSEN CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
65 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC3× · 2017–2019 · $315k · revenue +48%
MADRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $128k · revenue +39%- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +55%
- DIDIRECT IMPACT FUND TIME'S UPone grant, 2018 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $35k
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.
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
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…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
How this is measured
92 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. 92 of the 158 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
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 SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MADRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NORML FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SONGWRITERS' HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RENEWAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHED NYC INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VENETIAN HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shana Alexander Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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