· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY | $2,500 |
| THE CENTER PROJECT | $1,000 |
| UNIV OF MISSOURI TIGER SCHOLARSHIP | $1,000 |
| VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER | $1,000 |
| MTPC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| OLIVET CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $500 |
| TRUE NORTH WOMENS SHELTER | $500 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR | $500 |
| GRADE A PLUS | $500 |
| HOPE FOR TOMORROW | $500 |
| GRANNY'S HOUSE | $500 |
| BE THE CHANGE VOLUNTEERS | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $500
- CCCARDLE CAREER ALLIANCEone grant, 2019 · $500
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Alden Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alden Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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