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Frances N Alden Charitable Tr at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$3.2MArts & Culture$3.0MEducation$2.1MHealth$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.1MRecreation & Sports$800kEnvironment$700kYouth Development$379kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.5M
$120,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOME OF THE INNOCENTS$1,500,000
LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FDN$500,000
HISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INC$435,900
SPEED ART MUSEUM$300,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$300,000
NEUROPLASTICITY ALLIANCE$250,000
Hosparus inc$250,000
OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY$200,000
Kids Center for Pediatric Therapies$200,000
FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE$150,000
Fund for the Arts Inc$150,000
CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE$120,000
LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$100,000
Dare to Care Inc$100,000
WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS$100,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $1.5M → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $1.5M → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $50k → 15%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $25k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $204k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $120k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $30k → 15%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $25k → 15%Hosparus inc: $500k → 15%Hosparus inc: $250k → 15%Hosparus inc: $50k → 15%Hosparus inc: $10k → 15%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 14 repeat orgs$935k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$11M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-28%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $835k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • TH
    THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +132%
  • SA
    SPEED ART MUSEUM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +86%
  • LF
    LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +321%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -28%
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
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
2
Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc

Drive equitable investment in our public parks to improve the health and wellbeing of the entire community.

Environment
3
Lafayette General Foundation Inc

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…

Health
4
Greater Louisville Sports Commission Inc

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.

Recreation & Sports
5
The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc

To mobilize people, networks, and capital to spark meaningful change in and beyond louisville.

Philanthropy
6
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Harbor House of Louisville Inc

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.

Civil Rights
9
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
10
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

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.

Human Services
11
Lafayette General Health System Inc

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.

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisville Free Public Library Foundatio; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 24 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
10/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $3,075,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INCHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $810,000 · Human ServicesHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTHCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $379,000 · Human ServicesCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INCSPEED ART MUSEUM: $1,600,000 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUMHISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INC: $1,035,900 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INCFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR THE ARTS INC+2 more: $9,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO: $1,350,000 · EducationLOUISVILLE FREE P…LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $390,000 · EducationLOUISVILLE COLLEG…UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOU…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMU…LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN: $800,000 · OtherLOUISVILLE OL…NEUROPLASTICITY ALLIANCE: $250,000 · OtherNEUROPLASTICI…Hildegard House Incorporated: $200,000 · OtherHildegard Hou…FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $150,000 · OtherFAMILY SCHOLA…DARE TO CARE INC: $100,000 · OtherDARE TO CARE …+3 more: $76,000 · OtherWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $700,000 · EnvironmentCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $350,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $100,000 · HealthHORSESENSING INC: $60,000 · Health
Human Services$4,264,000Arts & Culture$3,044,900Education$2,040,000Philanthropy$1,100,000Other$1,576,000Environment$700,000Health$510,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC: $3,075,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $1,600,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetLOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO: $1,350,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHISTORIC LOCUST GROVE INC: $1,035,900 over 3y, 47% of budgetHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $810,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN: $800,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetWATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $700,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $400,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $390,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $379,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetCerebral Palsy KIDS Center Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHildegard House Incorporated: $200,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDARE TO CARE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHORSESENSING INC: $60,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetDogs Helping Heroes Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetVISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETERSON-DUMESNIL HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLOUISVILLE CHORUS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

The Gheens Foundation…Snowy Owl Foundation …The Community Foundat…Gardner Foundation In…Republic Bank Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…V V Cooke Foundation …Baird Foundation IncIrvin F & Alice S Ets…Cralle Foundation IncLG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…
The Gheens Foundation IncKY32.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Frances N Alden Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frances N Alden Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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