Arkansas · Private foundation
Alderson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $104k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $933k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Alderson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $670k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $101k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $895k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $335k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $40k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $35k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $42k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $135k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share Foundation | $501,000 | 2 | 5% |
| South Arkansas Arts Center | $262,000 | 3 | 17% |
| El Dorado Festivals & Events Inc | $204,750 | 3 | 4% |
| South Arkansas Symphony | $130,000 | 2 | 23% |
| University of the South | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| First Baptist Church | $65,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Arkansas Children's Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mainstreet El Dorado | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| South Arkansas College Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| CARTI Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share Foundation | $501,000 | 2 | 5% |
| South Arkansas Arts Center | $262,000 | 3 | 17% |
| El Dorado Festivals & Events Inc | $204,750 | 3 | 4% |
| South Arkansas Symphony | $130,000 | 2 | 23% |
| University of the South | $120,000 | 2 | 0% |
| First Baptist Church | $65,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Arkansas Children's Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mainstreet El Dorado | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| South Arkansas College Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| CARTI Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Parelli Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hope Landing Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| National Capital Area Council Boy Scouts of America | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Arkansas Repertory Theatre | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of El Dorado Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Omaha | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| El Dorado Pride Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($191k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alderson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Murphy Foundation · William C and Theodosia Murphy Nolan Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Mason Foundation · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Alderson Family Foundation
- How much does Alderson Family Foundation give?
- Alderson Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $103,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Alderson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Arts & Culture (38%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Alderson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Share Foundation ($501k), South Arkansas Arts Center ($262k), El Dorado Festivals & Events Inc ($205k).
- Does Alderson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alderson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alderson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Murphy Foundation, William C and Theodosia Murphy Nolan Foundation, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc.
- Where is Alderson Family Foundation based?
- Alderson Family Foundation is based in AR.
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