How much did ALDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

ALDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC reported 14 grants totaling $314,434 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is ALDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC based?

ALDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is based in CT.

ALDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

ALDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

To cultivate, promote and develop understanding of and public interest in theatre, dance, music and the performing arts and to produce and present public performances in each of the above fields

$314k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of ALDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

collectionlivingbrothers sistershigheryouthrelationshipseducation

2020

hungerfood pantryagriculturalcollectionlivingtropicalfairchild

2021

—

2022

endowmentcultural educationalisland'shistorictropicalfairchildbrothers sisters

2023

laughshistoryagriculturalfairchildpreserveenvironmentalchild

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $27k
$10k–50k8 grants · $169k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$17,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
BROOKS-DEBARTOLO COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
VIZCAYA MUSEUM & GARDENS TRUST INC$29,000
SACRED HEART ACADEMY INC$25,000
YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL$25,000
FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS$18,250
FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC$17,000
ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$15,000
MERCY HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD MUSEUM INC$7,200
THE NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC$5,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC$5,000
ANDREW LANGSTON CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 13%. 28% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$787k · 17 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$787k

$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+46%

Still filing today

76%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

VM
VIZCAYA MUSEUM & GARDENS TRUST INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $87k · revenue +146%
SM
ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY
3× · 2021–2023 · $65k · revenue +62%
FT
FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +71%

Funded once

MV
MARTHAS VINEYARD BOYS AND GILS CLUB INCORPORATEDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +271%
PC
PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -73%
TY
THE YOUNG SCHOLARS INSTITUTE INC
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop a diverse collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment

Martha's Vineyard

To enhance the lives of those it serves by meeting the comprehensive needs of individuals, families, and the community through a partnership of programs that provides accessible education and health and human services of the highest…

Human Services

Martha's Vineyard Community

The martha's vineyard community foundation, inc., successor to the permanent endowment fund for martha's vineyard, the island's community foundation, puts charitable contributions to work for the people of martha's vineyard by making…

Philanthropy

Falmouth Historical Society Inc

The mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.

Unclassified

Stillpoint Martha's Vineyard Inc

To create a gathering place for people from all walks of life for educational offerings.

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Vineyard Conservation Society Inc

The vineyard conservation society advocates, educates, and protects environmental resources.

Environment

Friends of the Public Garden Inc

To work with boston's department of parks and recreation to preserve, protect and enhance boston's first public parks: the common, the public garden and the commonwealth avenue mall.

Environment

Memphis Botanic Garden Foundation Inc

The memphis botanic garden exists to enhance lives by connecting people with nature to increase awareness and appreciation of our environment.

Environment

Worcester County Horticultural Society

New england botanic garden at tower hill creates experiences with plants that inspire people and improve the world.

Environment

Victoria Mansion

Preserve and maintain the Victoria Mansion

Arts & Culture

Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture

Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens

The mission of the jenkins arboretum & gardens is to preserve natural, tranquil woodlands for community enjoyment, to showcase native plants and a world class collection of rhododendrons and azaleas, and to promote environmental…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Norfolk Botanical Garden Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/37

the rest of the field

1,866/22,408

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/30

Grantees still filing

22/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$527,335Education$198,000Arts & Culture$157,350Environment$50,000Youth Development$10,000Recreation & Sports$7,500Philanthropy$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Slough Farm FoundationMA16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Slough Farm Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Community · Mv Vision Fellowship Fund · The Kirk Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ALDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814718261 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Alden Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Alden Charitable Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ALDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alden Charitable Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

ALDEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alden Charitable Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph