· Private foundation
Alton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $31,400 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $20,000 |
| ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OF SMITH COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| GREAT RIVER CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| LA POINTE COMMUNITY CLINIC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $2,000 |
| MINNESOTA LAND TRUST | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| GUNFLINT TRAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW8× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +23%
- LPLA POINTE COMMUNITY CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +196%
- PBPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM-SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN REGION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k
- HUHAMLINE UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- BFBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +70%
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 63 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
- Who funds Alumnae Association of Smith College ↗
- Who funds LA POINTE COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS CONCERNED FOR LAWYERS ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville University ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Lift Garage ↗
- Who funds ORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GUNFLINT TRAIL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
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 Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Longview Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Alton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology: 12% of income from government
- Jacksonville University: 3% of income from government
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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