The Alces Foundation 7549-XXXXXX12606
Boston, MA · EIN 04-3425071. Reported 86 grants totalling $737,000 to 55 organizations across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Alces Foundation 7549-XXXXXX12606 did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milk With Dignity Standards Council | Burlington, VT | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Susu Community Farm | Brattleboro, VT | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Beyond Now Foundation | Apex, NC | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Land Trust Alliance Inc | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Garden School of Beverly Inc | Beverly, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Agricultural Economy | Harwick, VT | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for An Agricultural Economy | Hardwick, VT | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ipswich River Watershed Association | Ipswich, MA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Transplanting Traditions Community Farm | Carrboro, NC | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Edmonds Tennis & Education Foundation | Henderson, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rosie's Place | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vermont College of Fine Arts | Montpelier, VT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Learning Outside Inc | Carrboro, NC | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mgh Center for Global Health Fund | Boston, MA | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Downstreet Housing & Community Development | Barre, VT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| El Centro Hispano Inc | Durham, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Healing Abuse Working for Change | Salem, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hispanic Laison of Chatham County (aka El Vinculo Hispano) | Siler, NC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ipswich Refugee Program | Ipswich, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mgh Center for Community Health Improvement | Ipswich, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Project Place | Boston, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rafi - USA | Pittsboro, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Sunrise Fund | Essex, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Upper Valley Haven Inc | White River Junction, VT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Uli Foundation Uli Boston/New England | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc | North Andover, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Working Landscapes | Manson, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| El Vinculo Hispanothe Hispanic Liason | Siler City, NC | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Conscious Homestead C/O Vermont Community Garden Network | Winooski, VT | $13,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Epiphany School | Dorchester, MA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center Mgh | Charlestown, MA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bridge Over Troubled Waters | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Essex County Trail Association | Hamilton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mass Audubon Society Inc | Lincoln, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | Lincoln, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Entry Sustainable Farming Project C/O Trustees of Tufts Colleges | Beverly, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc | East Dorset, VT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Three Sisters Garden Project Inc | Ipswich, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Edmonds Tennis and Education Foundation | Henderson, NC | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Northeast Wilderness Trust | Montpelier, VT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Make the Road to New York | Brentwood, NY | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Refugee Community Partnership | Carrboro, NC | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Work to Ride | Philadelphia, PA | $4,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Grassroots Ecology | Palo Alto, CA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Maine Cancer Foundation | Falmouth, ME | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Squam Lakes Association | Holderness, NH | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund | Montpelier, VT | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Walla Walla Immigrant Rights Coalition C/O Blue Mountain Community Found | Walla Walla, WA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| A Better Chance a Better Community | Enfield, NC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Marine Megafauna Foundation Marinemegafaunaorg | West Palm Beach, FL | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Radical Imagination Radicalimaginationprojectscom | Corinth, VT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Searching for Solutions | Philadelphia, PA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Agrihood Collective | Shelburne, VT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Food Project Inc | Lincoln, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Intervale Center | Burlington, VT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
22 of 55 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 43%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Susu Community Farm
AFRO-IDIGENOUS SUPPORT IN - Project Place
TRAINING OF HOMELESS TO RE - Uli Foundation Uli Boston/New England
GENERAL SUPPORT ENVIROMENT - Ipswich Refugee Program
GENERAL SUPPORT EDUCATION - Center for An Agricultural Economy
LEVERAGING PROG. CAPACITY - El Vinculo Hispanothe Hispanic Liason
ORGULLO LATINX PRIDE YOUTH
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 56 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 11 | $150,500 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 19 | $165,500 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 19 | $131,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 18 | $143,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 19 | $147,000 | $7,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 36% of this one's giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Alces Foundation 7549-XXXXXX12606's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 45 School St 5TH Floor, Boston, MA, 02108. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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