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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.

$34k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$47kArts & Culture$29kYouth Development$18kPhilanthropy$6kHuman Services$6kEmployment$5kHealth$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$394k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FRISCO FASTPACS$2,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TRUST$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
02The need
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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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THRIVE GULU: $500 → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%MOMS HELPING MOMS: $3k → 5%CARING PATHWAYS OF CARROLLTON: $500 → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $100 → 14%FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES: $84 → 5%FAMILY PROMISE OF COLLIN COUNTY: $520 → 5%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

NY
MA
SD
IA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
DC
HI
AL
TX
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$140k · 9 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
23

Total granted

$140k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+37%

Still filing today

44%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FS
    Frisco Student Fastpacs
    6× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +60%
  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    3× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +12%
  • AS
    AMERICA SCORES
    2× · 2018–2020 · $12k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%
  • UO
    UBS OPTIMUS FOUNDATION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $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
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Nourishing Hope

Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.

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3
Kids' Meals Inc
Human Services
4
Feeding Texas

To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.

Community Improvement
5
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
6
Project Bread-the Walk for Hunger Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Community Cooks Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Target Hunger Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Harvest Hope Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
11
Cares of Farmington Hills Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
12
Metro Caring

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heroes for Children; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 40 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WITH LOVE IT'S A SMALL WORLD: $29,013 · OtherWITH LOVE IT'S A SMALL WORLDFrisco Student Fastpacs: $28,000 · OtherFrisco Student FastpacsIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $18,665 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $12,500 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKIndividual grant recipient: $6,040 · OtherHUGS CAFE INC: $5,462 · Other+18 more: $26,601 · Other+18 moreAMERICA SCORES: $12,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $5,150 · Human ServicesMOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC: $3,072 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 · Human ServicesFamily Promise of Collin County: $520 · Human ServicesCARING PATHWAYS OF CARROLLTON: $500 · Human ServicesTHRIVE-GULU INC: $500 · Human Services+2 more: $184 · Human ServicesTexas Briar Club Foundation: $5,900 · PhilanthropyRHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY: $3,600 · EducationABOVE ALL THINGS DREAM FOUNDAT: $1,093 · EducationChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,000 · HealthIrving Healthcare Foundation: $150 · HealthMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $1,036 · Food & Nutrition
Other$152,281Crime & Legal$12,000Human Services$10,926Philanthropy$5,900Education$4,693Health$2,150Food & Nutrition$1,036

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 budgetFrisco Student Fastpacs: $28,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA SCORES: $12,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTexas Briar Club Foundation: $5,900 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetHUGS CAFE INC: $5,462 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND MAYORAL ACADEMY (SM) BLACKSTONE VALLEY: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOMS HELPING MOMS FOUNDATION INC: $3,072 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEROES FOR CHILDREN: $2,591 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABOVE ALL THINGS DREAM FOUNDAT: $1,093 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $1,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPH'S HOUSE OF CAMDEN LLC: $535 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Collin County: $520 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARKINSONS UNITY WALK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARING PATHWAYS OF CARROLLTON: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE-GULU INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION ONCE IN A LIFETIME: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PAWTUCKET: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIrving Healthcare Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRISCO FAMILY SERVICES CENTER: $84 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Bank of America C…Chubb Charitable Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Enterprise Holdings F…Verizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX22.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Alto Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alto Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Joseph's House of Camden Llc: 32% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 40 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.

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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