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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.

$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$183kHealth$128kPhilanthropy$42kHuman Services$33kHousing & Shelter$24kInternational$17kRecreation & Sports$17kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $64,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $69,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$785k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IU Foundation$12,000
Zionsville Education Foundation$6,000
OMPRAKASH Foundation$6,000
Belmont University - Office of Developm$5,000
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Founda$5,000
MSU Alumni Association$5,000
National Alliance of Mental Health - LA$5,000
Loyola Marymount University$5,000
NOVA Academy$5,000
Cakes 4 Kids$3,500
Habitat for Humanity Boone County$3,000
Shoreline Church$1,500
Standing Stone Ministry$1,500
Heifer Project International$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDHELP INC: $5k → 11%FISH FOR LIFE: $500 → 11%MUSTARD SEED RANCH: $1k → 19%AMERICAN OUTREACH FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%HIDDEN HARVEST: $1k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $4k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE & KITCHEN: $2k → 11%EVOLUTION HAITI INC: $375 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
WI
NY
OR
IN
CA
UT
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Alderson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Alderson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$293k · 19 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
44

Total granted

$293k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+16%

Still filing today

63%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2018–2021 · $60k · revenue +26%
  • HC
    HEART CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $29k · revenue +610%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -24%
  • SS
    SMALL STEPS FOR COMPASSION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -59%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
City of Hope

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

Health
2
University of Southern California

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…

Education
3
Miracle Hill Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Dominican University of California

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.

Education
5
St Luke Community Hospital

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,…

Health
6
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
7
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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8
Aim High for High School

To increase educational equity by providing joyful, enriching learning experiences for middle school students, aspiring teachers, and experienced educators.

Education
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
10
Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health
11
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
12
Angiogenesis Foundation Inc

To improve global health by advancing angiogenesis-based medicine, diet, and lifestyle.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childhelp Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
32/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $20,500 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES FOUNDATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY INC: $19,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE COACHELLA VALLE…ZIONSVILLE EAGLES ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $18,500 · OtherZIONSVILLE EAGLES ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUBST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $18,500 · OtherST MARGARETS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLSt Anne School: $13,500 · OtherSt Anne SchoolSTILLPOINT FAMILY RESOURCES: $11,250 · OtherSTILLPOINT FAMILY RESOURCES+36 more: $80,625 · Other+36 moreZionsville Education Foundation Inc: $47,750 · EducationZionsville Education Foundat…HEART CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $29,000 · EducationHEART CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY …LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITYIndiana University Foundation: $12,000 · EducationIndiana University Foundatio…THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FO…NOVA ACADEMY: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationAmerican Heart Association Inc: $60,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Asso…CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA: $5,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMM…National Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthNational Kidney Fou…STANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC: $4,750 · HealthSTANDING STONE MINI…+6 more: $8,000 · Health+6 moreInland Empire Community Foundation: $37,500 · PhilanthropyInland Empi…OMPRAKASH INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyOMPRAKASH I…FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $3,250 · PhilanthropyFAMILY ASSI…GIVSUM FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyMUSTARD SEED RANCH INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesSMALL STEPS FOR COMPASSION: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHILDHELP INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN OUTREACH FOUNDATION: $1,750 · Human ServicesHIDDEN HARVEST CORPORATION: $1,250 · Human Services+3 more: $1,875 · Human ServicesFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CIVIC AND RECREATION INC: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$182,375Education$119,750Health$82,750Philanthropy$48,750Human Services$30,875Recreation & Sports$4,000Youth Development$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZionsville Education Foundation Inc: $47,750 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEART CHRISTIAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $29,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY INC: $19,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne School: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED RANCH INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSMALL STEPS FOR COMPASSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNOVA ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHELP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CIVIC AND RECREATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Church Memorial Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetTHE AUTISM COMMUNITY IN ACTION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVSUM FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN OUTREACH FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIDDEN HARVEST CORPORATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGALLATIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA GALLATIN HISTORY MUSEUM: $1,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBETTER TOGETHER MINISTRIES INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHopeful Hearts: $1,250 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALPINE THEATRE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MONTANA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONQUERING CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSTARD SEED RANCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFISH FOR LIFE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvolution Haiti Inc: $375 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUMPTOWN ART STUDIO: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 NOVA ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF MONTANA ↗
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
  • Who funds STANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CIVIC AND RECREATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Orange County Communi…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…Inland Empire Communi…Bighorn Golf Club Cha…The Grace Helen Spear…Treacy FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Weingart FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…Sempra FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…T Rowe Price Program …
Orange County Community FoundationCA19.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alderson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alderson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 75 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $81k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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