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Alderman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
80%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$75
Largest grant, FY2025
$500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$48k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Alderman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’24
Arts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$2k84%
FY20245$65080%
FY20217$88586%
FY20205$2k60%
FY20193$3k67%
FY20183$6k100%
FY20171$5kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$8kCommunity Improvement$5kEducation$2kReligion$2kInternational$475Philanthropy$425Civil Rights$275Public Safety & Disaster$100Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alderman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMusic Mountain Incorporated: $6,250 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetConnecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salisbury Association Inc: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil on Foreign Relations Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVisiting Nurse Service of New York: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChore Service Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Alderman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alderman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Alderman Family Foundation

How much does Alderman Family Foundation give?
Alderman Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $2,380 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Alderman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Community Improvement (26%), Education (12%).
Who are Alderman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Music Mountain Incorporated ($6k), Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc ($600), New York Public Radio ($500).
Does Alderman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alderman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alderman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Alderman Family Foundation based?
Alderman Family Foundation is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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