Alpha Foundation

The Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health, a grantmaker funding research through academic and nonprofit institutions with the goal of eliminating work related injury and disease for the nation's miners.

57named by peers

Financial profile

Alpha Foundation · EIN 63-1188643 · 501(c)(3)

Fiscal yearTotal revenueContributionsProgram servicesTotal expensesNet assetsYear end
FY2023$2,961,613$2,945,174$45,877,947Dec 2023
FY2022$3,438,134$3,137,202$45,764,105Dec 2022
FY2021$3,596,457$3,109,247$45,493,173Dec 2021
FY2020$3,327,298$2,785,918$45,005,963Dec 2020
FY2019$2,648,067$2,842,867$44,484,584Dec 2019
FY2015$2,676,409$2,727,564$40,976,786Dec 2015

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Peer societies

Five societies Alpha Foundation is read alongside.

Who backs AF

No public supporter list found as of September 2026.

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Who backs Alpha Foundation's peers, but not Alpha Foundation

Companies named publicly by at least one of Alpha Foundation's five peer societies, and not found in Alpha Foundation's reviewed public records.

CompanyASSPFGFPeers
3i ImagingCurrent1 of 2
A-M SYSTEMSCurrent1 of 2
accuformNamed1 of 2
AD InstrumentsCurrent1 of 2
airtekNamed1 of 2
Andor Technology LtdCurrent1 of 2
aonNamed1 of 2
Applications International CorporationNamed1 of 2
Applied Scientific InstrumentationCurrent1 of 2
ATT, The Automated Tube TestCurrent1 of 2
BitplaneCurrent1 of 2
California TransparencyCurrent1 of 2
Cambridge Electronic Design LimitedCurrent1 of 2
Chroma Technology CorporationCurrent1 of 2
CoolLEDCurrent1 of 2
cwe incCurrent1 of 2
Dage-MTICurrent1 of 2
DigitimerCurrent1 of 2
Doric LensesCurrent1 of 2
FHC, Inc.Current1 of 2
Hamamatsu PhotonicsCurrent1 of 2
Harvard Bioscience, IncCurrent1 of 2
HEKA ElektronikCurrent1 of 2
Leica MicrosystemsCurrent1 of 2
libertymutualNamed1 of 2
logo-ohsNamed1 of 2
Luigs & NeumannCurrent1 of 2
Micro Video Instruments, Inc.Current1 of 2
Mightex SystemsCurrent1 of 2
Molecular Devices, LLC.Current1 of 2
NARISHIGE INTERNATIONAL USA, INC.Current1 of 2
National InstrumentsCurrent1 of 2
NeuroPhase LLCCurrent1 of 2
New Era Pump SystemsCurrent1 of 2
Newport CorporationCurrent1 of 2
Nikon CorporationCurrent1 of 2
Noldus Information TechnologyCurrent1 of 2
Parker Hannifin CorpCurrent1 of 2
PercisionaryCurrent1 of 2
pmap_logoNamed1 of 2
PromegaCurrent1 of 2
QImagingCurrent1 of 2
ScientificaCurrent1 of 2
SemrockCurrent1 of 2
Siskiyou CorporationCurrent1 of 2
sportexNamed1 of 2
SPOT ImagingCurrent1 of 2
Stoelting Co.Current1 of 2
Sutter InstrumentCurrent1 of 2
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.Current1 of 2
ThorlabsCurrent1 of 2
Tucker-Davis TechnologiesCurrent1 of 2
upsNamed1 of 2
Warner InstrumentsCurrent1 of 2
Wave Metrics IncCurrent1 of 2
World Precision InstrumentsCurrent1 of 2
ZEISSCurrent1 of 2

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The outside view

The Alpha Foundation for the Improvement of Mine Safety and Health, a grantmaker funding research through academic and nonprofit institutions with the goal of eliminating work related injury and disease for the nation's miners.

  • Authority
  • Build
  • Outward
  • Volunteer

Their shape

The Movement

Gathered around a cause, and built to move.

The Movement is mission-led and built to mobilize, organized around changing something in the world. Its gift is passion and external impact, its challenge is turning momentum into something that lasts.

Also reads toward The Frontier and The Guild.

Strengths

→Real influence on the wider field.
→Members are motivated by a clear why.
→Quick to rally around what matters now.

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