· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $1,500,000 |
| LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FDN | $500,000 |
| HISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INC | $435,900 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| SPEED ART MUSEUM | $300,000 |
| NEUROPLASTICITY ALLIANCE | $250,000 |
| Hosparus inc | $250,000 |
| OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY | $200,000 |
| Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies | $200,000 |
| Fund for the Arts Inc | $150,000 |
| FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE | $150,000 |
| CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $120,000 |
| LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| Dare to Care Inc | $100,000 |
| WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS | $100,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $835k 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
- THTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +132%
- SASPEED ART MUSEUM3× · 2023–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +31%
- LFLOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO4× · 2022–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +321%
Funded once
- CHChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundationone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -28%
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.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
To attract, create, and host quality sporting events in the louisville area that increase economic vitality, enhance the quality of life, promote healthy lifestyles, and brand louisville as a great place to live, work, and play.
To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To empower individuals with disabilities and their families to lead fulfilled and productive lives. harbor house empowers individuals through employment, education, and community building opportunities.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
The organization was organized for the benefit and support of its related 501(c)(3) health care entities which provide medical care to restore, maintain and improve the health of the community in which it serves.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisville Free Public Library Foundatio and the most unlike its peers is Louisville Chorus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 14% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 24 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 THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hildegard House Incorporated ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DARE TO CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation ↗
- Who funds HORSESENSING INC ↗
- Who funds Dogs Helping Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds PETERSON-DUMESNIL HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE CHORUS INC ↗
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: The Gheens Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Gardner Foundation Incorporated · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Baird Foundation Inc · Irvin F & Alice S Etscorn Charitable Foundation · Cralle Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc
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 Frances N Alden Charitable Tr 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.