How much did THE ALDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of THE ALDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

columbia

2020

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2021

columbia

2022

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2023

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2024

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2025

neighborcolumbia

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500

Median grant

States reached

$45k

Total assets

Largest grants

THE FOOD BANK$2,500
UNITED WAY$2,500
UNIV OF MISSOURI TIGER SCHOLARSHIP$1,000
MTPC$1,000
VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER$1,000
THE CENTER PROJECT$1,000
GRANNY'S HOUSE$500
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR$500
BE THE CHANGE VOLUNTEERS$500
OLIVET CHRISTIAN CHURCH$500
MINORITY MENS NETWORK$500
HOPE FOR TOMORROW$500
TRUE NORTH WOMENS SHELTER$500
GRADE A PLUS$500
WIN FOR COLUMBIA$350

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$93k · 23 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$93k

$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

+2781%

Still filing today

39%

22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

BT
BE THE CHANGE VOLUNTEERS
7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +19%
GA
GRADE A PLUS
7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +621%
HF
HOPE FOR TOMORROW
7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +4%

Funded once

CC
COR COLUMBIA
one grant, 2019 · $500
CO
COR OF COLUMBIA
one grant, 2021 · $500
CC
CARDLE CAREER ALLIANCE
one grant, 2019 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Coastal Kids Preschool

Provides an inclusive enriching learning environment for students 15 months to 7 years of age

Human Services

Tacoma Day Care & Preschool Association

In 1911, Tacoma Day Care and Preschool Association established the first preschool in Pierce County with the mission to provide quality, affordable child care. It has a state of the art Early Learning Center serving children fourteen…

Human Services

Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc

Our mission is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in the global economy.

International

United Planet Corporation

United Planet is an international nonprofit organization with a mission to create a global community, one relationship at a time. We empower individuals to make a meaningful impact through immersive overseas volunteer programs, global…

Education

Charlotte Jewish Preschool

To provide quality half-day and full-day preschool programs for children ages one to five within an enriched Jewish environment. CJP is dedicated to providing young children with a secure and loving atmosphere so that they can develop a…

Education

Community Playground of Columbia

to assist at-risk families by providing academic and socialization support

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United Way Quad Cities

United way qc mission is mobilizing people and resources to improve lives in our community. united way qc develops, supports and invests in the most impactful strategies and partners to strengthen education, income and health--the building…

Philanthropy

Creative City Public Charter School

Allow teachers, students and parents to share governance and cooperate on curriculum and community decisions, building on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based arts-integrated curriculum, developing self-directed…

Education

City Garden Grade School

A school inspired by waldorf education in mid-missouri with an intellectually rich curriculum that inspires creativity and self discovery.

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Ambition Preparatory Charter School

Through high-quality instruction, intensive academic supports, and hard work, ambition preparatory charter school ensures that all students in kindergarten through grade eight have academic skills and self-discipline for college and life…

Education

Junior Achievement of Kansas Inc

We are empowering young people to own their economic success. our volunteer-based k-12 programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire kids to dream big and reach…

International

Ucp San Diego

The mission of the san diego cooperative preschool is to provide the highest quality care, while creating a nurturing and supportive community of children, parents, and highly skilled staff. through a play-based program that attends to the…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grade a Plus Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

10/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$75,050Human Services$7,050Arts & Culture$4,500International$4,250Religion$3,500Education$3,100Philanthropy$1,000Health$550

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.

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.

Veterans United FoundationMO22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Heart of Missouri United Way Inc · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation THE ALDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION 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.

2024

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GRADE A PLUS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 7.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 431888469 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GRADE A PLUS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Alden Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Alden Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE ALDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Alden Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE ALDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Alden Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph