· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $2,500 |
| THE FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| THE CENTER PROJECT | $1,000 |
| MTPC | $1,000 |
| UNIV OF MISSOURI TIGER SCHOLARSHIP | $1,000 |
| VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER | $1,000 |
| GRANNY'S HOUSE | $500 |
| TRUE NORTH WOMENS SHELTER | $500 |
| BE THE CHANGE VOLUNTEERS | $500 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR | $500 |
| GRADE A PLUS | $500 |
| HOPE FOR TOMORROW | $500 |
| OLIVET CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350 |
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 (FY19–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% 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.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- BTBe The Change Vacations7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +16%
- GAGRADE A PLUS INCORPORATED7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +621%
- HFHOPE FOR TOMORROW INC7× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $500
- CCCARDLE CAREER ALLIANCEone grant, 2019 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $500
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.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
Carolina collaborative prep (ccp) is a non-profit academic center that serves students in grades 3-12 with learning differences, empowering them to thrive in school and in life.
Central Ozarks Private Industry Council, Incorporated (COPIC) strives to provide all customers with access to professional, high-quality workforce development services, resulting in sustainable employment and contributing to positive…
Education, non-partisan, membership organization that encourages people and organizations in the region to take an interest in, to learn more about, and to participate to a greater extent in global matters.
The coalition for missouri values seeks to bring members of our community together around a core set of values that undergird our society and community. together, we aim to gather information, educate and inform our fellow citizens and…
To build relationships to empower people, strengthen resilience, and improve quality of life for all members of the community.
Work to suport commercial, mixed use, and residential progress and effective community, economic, and aesthetic development to create and encourage the renewal and vitality of Midtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Earlystart carries out its mission "building bridges. inspiring minds. impacting futures." through the earlystart child and family development centers. highly-trained faculty utilize a project-based curriculum in an arts-infused…
To engage communities and coordinate resources to improve the lives of people experiencing poverty.
The slc3 is a community of design and construction industry professionals with a common interest in the betterment of our region through prioritizing innovation, continuing education, equity empowerment and all-inclusive workforce…
To serve member districts by promoting collaboration of resources to ensure educational opportunites are maximized thus allowing member districts to focus on advancement of educational opportunities for students served at all educational…
Strive to improve the well-being of children in the St. Louis region, especially those facing serious socio-economic risk, by providing information on well-being, building collaborative strategic action for promoting child well-being, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community Builders Community Development Co 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.
14 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. 14 of the 34 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 RAGTAG FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Be The Change Vacations ↗
- Who funds GRADE A PLUS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Nora Stewart Early Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Mid-Missouri Center Project Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOB POINT ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO ↗
- Who funds MOBILITY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
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: 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
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 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.
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.