Rhode Island · Private foundation
Warren Alpert Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $24M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 99
- Grants FY2024
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
58% of Warren Alpert Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 67 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,408,253
- Organizations funded a year
- 59 to 73
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 23
- Total assets, FY2024
- $397M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Warren Alpert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M 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 | 92 | $10M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $7.9M | 42% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $8.6M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $12M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $12M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rhode Island Hospital | $1,647,123 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $1,550,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | $1,076,500 | 4 | 0% |
| National Academy of Sciences | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc | $900,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Butler Hospital Foundation | $754,269 | 2 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $742,518 | 4 | 0% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $660,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Crossroads Rhode Island | $602,000 | 4 | 1% |
| University of Washington | $600,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($30M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Warren Alpert Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Harry M Miriam C Will C Horton F · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn
How this is measured
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About Warren Alpert Foundation
- How much does Warren Alpert Foundation give?
- Warren Alpert Foundation reported 99 grants totaling $24,267,834 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 73 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Warren Alpert Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (66%), Health (24%), Science & Tech (3%).
- Who are Warren Alpert Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Rhode Island Hospital ($1.6M), Children's Hospital Corporation ($1.6M), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ($1.1M).
- Does Warren Alpert Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Warren Alpert Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Warren Alpert Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, The Champlin Foundation, United Way of Rhode Island Inc.
- Where is Warren Alpert Foundation based?
- Warren Alpert Foundation is based in RI.
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