New York · Nonprofit
Albertine Foundation
Albertine Foundation (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,625,351 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,275,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Albertine Foundation does
Mission
Albertine Foundation is an american nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting french-american relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. Albertine Foundation promotes artistic, literary and educational exchange and collaboration between creative professionals from both countries. With additional corporate, foundation, and individual support, Albertine Foundation administers grant programs in the performing and visual arts, cinema, translation, and secondary and higher education, while providing financial sponsorship to french-american festivals and other cultural initiatives. Albertine Foundation focuses on new and recent work of living artists and the promotion of bilingualism and the french language.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Villa Albertine covers over 60 artist residencies taking place across the United States every year. Villa Albertine also features a magazine, States, and a post residency initiative.
$1,113,004 spentof which $165,400 as grants26% of program spendingThe French Dual Language Fund (Including FDLP-NY) provides high-quality bilingual education to children in public schools across the U.S.
$273,374 spentof which $232,123 as grants6% of program spendingEtant donnes Contemporary Art aims to strengthen ties between France and the U.S. in the field of contemporary art by fostering active collaboration and encouraging long-lasting partnerships between French visual artists, curators, and collectives and American curators and cultural institutions. The fund supports the discovery of emerging talents, while also sustaining interest in established artists.
$240,328 spentof which $197,000 as grants6% of program spendingCommunity College in France, Transatlantic Mobility Program, Transatlantic Research Partnership, Oui Design, Theatre and New Forms, FUSED, Jazz & New Music, CineSchool, French Immersion, Albertine Translation, Films on the Green, Night of Ideas, Museum and Cultural Heritage, Albertine Cinematheque, Albertine Chicago, Albertine Los Angeles, Albertine San Francisco.
$2,707,559 spentof which $1,690,234 as grants$43,085 earned by the program62% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,334,265.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.8M to $5.8M (+106%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 29% · 2019 43% · 2020 47% · 2021 40% · 2022 44% · 2023 20% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Albertine Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Laurent Auffret
Executive director
Board chair
Patrick Pagni
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $184k → $1.0M.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Albertine Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Albertine Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 64% · 2019 48% · 2020 55% · 2021 27% · 2022 39% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
62% of Albertine Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
72% of Albertine Foundation's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $421k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Albertine Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Albertine Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- Department of State$150k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Albertine Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Albertine Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Albertine Foundation?
- Albertine Foundation (New York) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,625,351 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($1,275,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Albertine Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $4,625,351 in grants to Albertine Foundation, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Albertine Foundation?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,275,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Albertine Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 38 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing