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Alderson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$670kArts & Culture$608kReligion$142kEducation$140kCommunity Improvement$30kYouth Development$7kRecreation & Sports$5kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$933k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$100,000
UNION COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
SARH FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE LANDING INC: $4k → 19%EL DORADO PRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 10 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$1.4M
$212k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-7%

Still filing today

70%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • SA
    SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER
    3× · 2019–2023 · $262k · revenue +1%
  • SA
    SOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY
    2× · 2022–2025 · $130k · revenue +53%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH
    2× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UF
    UAMS FOUNDATION FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • SA
    SOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +263%

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.

1
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
2
Arkansas Education Association

Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

Education
3
University of Central Ar Foundation Inc

The purpose of the university of central arkansas foundation, inc. is to further the goals of the university of central arkansas by securing and carefully managing private funds for the support of the university.

Education
4
Southeast Arkansas Regional Planning Commission

Long range development and execution of area planning programs for five member cities and one member county.

Community Improvement
5
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.

Philanthropy
6
Arkansas Humanities Council

The purpose of the arkansas humanities council is to promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the humanities in arkansas. to achieve its purpose, the council awards grants through a competitive application process to nonprofit…

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7
Arkansas Pharmacy Foundation

Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.

Health
8
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…

Human Services
9
Southern Arkansas University Tech Foundation

To provide scholarship funds to qualified students

Education
10
The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc

The arts council connects our communities, embraces diversity, promotes individual creativity, advances economic development, and fosters lifelong learning through the arts.

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11
Foundation of the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame

To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history

Arts & Culture
12
Site Santa Fe

Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Arkansas College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parelli Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER — $262,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTEREL DORADO FESTIVALS & EVENTS INC — $204,750 · Arts & CultureEL DORADO FESTIVALS & EVENTS INCSOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY — $130,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureSHARE FOUNDATION — $501,000 · HealthSHARE FOUNDATIONARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION+1 more — $15,000 · HealthUAMS FOUNDATION FUND — $100,000 · OtherUAMS FOUNDATION FU…FIRST METHODIST CHURCH — $75,000 · OtherFIRST METHODIST CH…FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — $65,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHUR…+7 more — $23,550 · Other+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH — $120,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…SOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationSOUTH ARK…MAINSTREET EL DORADO — $30,000 · Community ImprovementHOPE LANDING INC — $3,500 · Human ServicesEL DORADO PRIDE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesUNION COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA — $1,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$597,750Health$566,000Other$263,550Education$140,000Community Improvement$30,000Human Services$4,500Philanthropy$3,500Youth Development$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHARE FOUNDATION — $501,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER — $262,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetEL DORADO FESTIVALS & EVENTS INC — $204,750 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY — $130,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH — $120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAINSTREET EL DORADO — $30,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSOUTH ARKANSAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCARTI Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARELLI FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHOPE LANDING INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNION COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS REPERTORY THEATRE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL DORADO PRIDE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

The Murphy FoundationWilliam C and Theodos…The Community Foundat…The Mason FoundationArkansas Community Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Murphy FoundationAR22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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