· Private foundation
Alto Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUGS CAFE | $5,462 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| WITH LOVE IT'S A SMALL WORLD | $4,500 |
| CHARITY CLASSIC | $3,700 |
| HEROS FOR CHILDREN | $2,591 |
| BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TRUST | $2,000 |
| FRISCO FASTPACS | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $614 |
| CARING PATHWAYS OF CARROLLTON | $500 |
| PLAN INTERNATIONAL | $408 |
| ARTIST COOPERATIVE GALLERY OF WESTE | $50 |
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 (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 8 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- FSFrisco Student Fastpacs6× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +60%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +12%
- ASAMERICA SCORES2× · 2018–2020 · $12k · revenue +21%
Funded once
FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%- UOUBS OPTIMUS FOUNDATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $5k
- BGBOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
End hunger together.
Project bread integrates expertise earned through directly serving individuals, research, advocacy, and community engagement for a comprehensive approach that achieves large scale, sustainable impact to prevent hunger.
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
The mission of Target Hunger is to alleviate hunger and its root causes in the Houston neighborhoods we serve. Target Hunger is on the front lines of hunger every day through its food distribution system that includes multiple food…
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To provide comprehensive support services for individuals and families that are in need of everyday necessities due to insufficient financial resources or family instabilty. c.a.r.e.s. will offer food, clothing, job education and training…
Metro caring works with our community to meet people's immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. (continued on sch o)metro caring, in partnership with our community, understands that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heroes for Children and the most unlike its peers is Alpha Project for the Homeless. 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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 40 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 Frisco Student Fastpacs ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SCORES ↗
- Who funds Texas Briar Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUGS CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds ABOVE ALL THINGS DREAM FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN LLC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Collin County ↗
- Who funds THRIVE-GULU INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSONS UNITY WALK INC ↗
- Who funds CARING PATHWAYS OF CARROLLTON ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ONCE IN A LIFETIME ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET ↗
- Who funds STRAYDOG INC ↗
- Who funds Irving Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Alto 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Joseph's House of Camden Llc — 32% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
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.