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ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $923,554 to it, the largest being THE JOSETTA FUND ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $325k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $924k
- Net assets
- $886k
What Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization does
Mission
The organization promotes excellence in the scholarly study of freedom, democracy, and capitalism, as these ideas were developed and institutionalized in the united states and within the larger tradition of western civilization. The ahi aspires to create an educational environment of the highest standards in which evidence and argument prevail over ideology.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Conventions - the organization holds an annual colloquium in mid-april to discuss and study in depth a specific topic of interest to its constituent groups. The event is held over a three-day period with a keynote speaker and subsequent panel discussions. The colloqium is the cornerstone event every year and attracts students and other interested parties from around the country. In addtion, other conventions are held as/when deemed necessary.
$20,750 spent11% of program spendingSpecial student societies and speakers - the ahi supports several student societies at hamilton college (publis, dawson edmund burke society, etc) by holding events at the clinton new york offices of ahi with outside speakers on topics related to the students' interests. They often include panel discussions and social events designed to facilitate the interaction of the students with the speakers. There are also several outside speakers during the year speaking on topics of interest. All these events are open to the public.
$165,579 spent89% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $186,329.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $719k to $891k (+24%).
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.
93% of ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $287k → $58k.
3 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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 44% · 2018 49% · 2019 42% · 2020 38% · 2021 74% · 2022 45% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
27% of ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION?
- ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $923,554 to it, the largest being THE JOSETTA FUND ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $923,554 in grants to ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION?
- THE JOSETTA FUND is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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