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Alderson Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Arkansas College Foundation Inc; 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 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. 18 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
10/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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.

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

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%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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 25 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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