Missouri · Private foundation
The Alden Family 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.
- $14k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 22
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $45k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Alden Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 19 | $14k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $11k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $11k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $12k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $20k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $20k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $12k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ragtag Film Society | $4,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Be The Change Vacations | $4,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Grade a Plus Incorporated | $3,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Hope for Tomorrow Inc | $3,250 | 7 | 0% |
| City of Refuge | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Nora Stewart Early Learning Center | $2,350 | 6 | 0% |
| Mid-Missouri Center Project Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Olivet Christian Church | $2,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Columbia Public Schools Foundation | $1,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Job Point | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ragtag Film Society | $4,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Be The Change Vacations | $4,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Grade a Plus Incorporated | $3,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Hope for Tomorrow Inc | $3,250 | 7 | 0% |
| City of Refuge | $2,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Nora Stewart Early Learning Center | $2,350 | 6 | 0% |
| Mid-Missouri Center Project Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Olivet Christian Church | $2,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Columbia Public Schools Foundation | $1,600 | 6 | 0% |
| Job Point | $1,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Voluntary Action Center | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $550 | 2 | 0% |
| United Community Builders Community Development Co | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Mobility Worldwide | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Appalachian Trail Conservancy | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Alden Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Boone County Community Trust · Heart of Missouri United Way Inc · Boone Electric Community Trust · Community Foundation of Central Mo · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Alden Family Foundation
- How much does The Alden Family Foundation give?
- The Alden Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $14,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Alden Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Youth Development (13%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Alden Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Ragtag Film Society ($5k), Be The Change Vacations ($4k), Grade a Plus Incorporated ($4k).
- Does The Alden Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Alden Family Foundation 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 The Alden Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Veterans United Foundation, Boone County Community Trust, Heart of Missouri United Way Inc.
- Where is The Alden Family Foundation based?
- The Alden Family Foundation is based in MO.
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