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The Alton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $236k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANGELICAL CHURCH OF CHRIST | $56,316 |
| HOYLETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $37,544 |
| CRISIS FOOD CENTER | $30,000 |
| HITZ MEMORIAL HOME | $28,158 |
| OPERATION BLESSING | $25,000 |
| ALTON SALVATION ARMY | $18,772 |
| FATHER FLANAGAN'S BOYS HOME | $18,772 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALTON | $12,500 |
| WM BEDELL ACHIEVEMENT & RESOURCE CENTER | $12,000 |
| THE RESTORE NETWORK | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CENTERSTONE | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL | $9,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- HYHOYLETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +25%
- CFCRISIS FOOD CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $95k · revenue +13%
- TRTHE RESTORE NETWORK3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2024 · $10k
- OHOSF HEALTHCARE ST ANTHONY'Sone grant, 2023 · $4k
- ALALTON LITTLE THEATREone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Neighborhood and community development
Beautification projects in alton il
The mission and purpose of alton community services is to provide relief to the poor, the distressed or underprivileged throughout alton and the surrounding area by meeting their physical and spiritual needs through the provision of food,…
Assist low income individuals and families through operation of a thrift store, provide food through a food pantry, and assist homeowners with home repairs and special projects.
To provide christian counseling and outreach to individuals and families.
To supply food to low income families
To meet corporately as a congregation and to meet the spiritual needs of our congregation
Preservation and display of local history
Homeless Housing
Provide food and necessities to those in need in leon county area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hoyleton Youth and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Crisis Food Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 47 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 HOYLETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CRISIS FOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ALTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED METHODIST VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ALTON BAND AND ORCHESTRA BUILDERS ↗
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: Piasa Charitable Foundation · Alton Woman's Home Association · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Alton 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.
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