New York · Nonprofit
THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC
THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,298,747 to it, the largest being ANGELO DONGHIA FOUNDATION INC ($375,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $665k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $-264795
What The Alpha Workshops Inc does
Mission
The Alpha worshops provide a new model of economic development for people living with HIV/AIDS or other visible or invisible disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organizations primary activities consist of training and employing people living with hiv/aids in the decorative arts, through the development of a unique training curriculum combined with a supportive workplace responsive to the medical, financial and special needs of its employees can be met.
$656,886 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $656,886.
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 2020 to 2021, from $394k to $1.2M (+199%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 8% · 2020 14% · 2021 21% · 2022 17% · 2023 5% · 2024 90% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Edward Farrell
Executive director
Board chair
Jamie Drake
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $112k → $172k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $491k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 58% · 2019 57% · 2020 37% · 2021 51% · 2022 65% · 2023 44% — 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
16% of THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
84% of THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC'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. $409k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $170k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$170k
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 THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC: 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 THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC?
- THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,298,747 to it, the largest being ANGELO DONGHIA FOUNDATION INC ($375,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,298,747 in grants to THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC?
- ANGELO DONGHIA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ALPHA WORKSHOPS INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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