· Private foundation
The Alton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE RESTORE NETWORK | $12,000 |
| WM BEDELL ACHIEVEMENT & RESOURCE CENTER | $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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 47 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Alton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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