Kentucky · Private foundation
Frances N Alden Charitable Tr
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.
- $4.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $120,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 15
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Frances N Alden Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $4.8M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $4.5M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $1.9M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $945k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Home of the Innocents Inc | $3,075,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Speed Art Museum | $1,600,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Louisville Free Public Library Foundatio | $1,350,000 | 4 | 18% |
| Historic Locust Grove Inc | $1,035,900 | 3 | 47% |
| Hosparus Inc Hosparus Health | $810,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy In | $800,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc | $700,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Fund for the Arts Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Louisville Collegiate School | $390,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Cabbage Patch Settlement House Inc | $379,000 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 23 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Frances N Alden Charitable Tr supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Frances N Alden Charitable Tr
- How much does Frances N Alden Charitable Tr give?
- Frances N Alden Charitable Tr reported 23 grants totaling $4,900,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Frances N Alden Charitable Tr fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Arts & Culture (23%), Education (16%).
- Who are Frances N Alden Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: The Home of the Innocents Inc ($3.1M), Speed Art Museum ($1.6M), Louisville Free Public Library Foundatio ($1.4M).
- Does Frances N Alden Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Frances N Alden Charitable Tr accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Frances N Alden Charitable Tr?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gheens Foundation Inc, Snowy Owl Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
- Where is Frances N Alden Charitable Tr based?
- Frances N Alden Charitable Tr is based in KY.
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