· Private foundation
Alderson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $64,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $69,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IU Foundation | $12,000 |
| Zionsville Education Foundation | $6,000 |
| OMPRAKASH Foundation | $6,000 |
| NOVA Academy | $5,000 |
| Loyola Marymount University | $5,000 |
| MSU Alumni Association | $5,000 |
| Belmont University - Office of Developm | $5,000 |
| National Alliance of Mental Health - LA | $5,000 |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles Founda | $5,000 |
| Cakes 4 Kids | $3,500 |
| Habitat for Humanity Boone County | $3,000 |
| Standing Stone Ministry | $1,500 |
| Shoreline Church | $1,500 |
| Heifer Project International | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Alderson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2018–2021 · $60k · revenue +26%
- HCHEART CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY6× · 2017–2022 · $29k · revenue +610%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY INC5× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -24%
- SSSMALL STEPS FOR COMPASSIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -59%
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +51%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
To increase educational equity by providing joyful, enriching learning experiences for middle school students, aspiring teachers, and experienced educators.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
To improve global health by advancing angiogenesis-based medicine, diet, and lifestyle.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childhelp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mustard Seed Ranch 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Zionsville Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEART CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds St Anne School ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OMPRAKASH INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SMALL STEPS FOR COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA ↗
- Who funds NOVA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CIVIC AND RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Bighorn Golf Club Charities Inc · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Treacy Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Weingart Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
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 organization Alderson Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.