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Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister 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.

$585k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 26
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$585k23%
FY202425$538k24%
FY202324$550k4%
FY202226$609k19%
FY202124$528k33%
FY202022$501kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$528kAnimals$437kReligion$363kHuman Services$338kYouth Development$289kEducation$286kFood & Nutrition$249kHousing & Shelter$211kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lafayette Parks Foundation Inc$361,000514%
Paws N Claws Animal Shelter$290,000642%
Food Finders Food Bank Inc$249,00050%
Ivy Tech Foundation Inc$208,00040%
Salvation Army$166,2006n/a
YMCA Camp Tecumseh Inc$144,00051%
Lafayette Urban Ministry Inc$140,30062%
Niches Land Trust Inc$140,00064%
Seeds of Hope Community Ministries Inc$119,2505n/a
Association for Space Science Eng & Tech Inc$113,000432%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lafayette Parks Foundation Inc$361,000514%
Paws N Claws Animal Shelter$290,000642%
Food Finders Food Bank Inc$249,00050%
Ivy Tech Foundation Inc$208,00040%
Salvation Army$166,2006n/a
YMCA Camp Tecumseh Inc$144,00051%
Lafayette Urban Ministry Inc$140,30062%
Niches Land Trust Inc$140,00064%
Seeds of Hope Community Ministries Inc$119,2505n/a
Association for Space Science Eng & Tech Inc$113,000432%
Bauer Family Resources Inc$112,00040%
Thomas Duncan Hall Inc$110,967612%
The Branch Wesleyan Church$80,2006n/a
Lyn Treece Boys & Girls Club of Tippecanoe County$80,00042%
Almost Home Humane Society Inc$64,70035%
Boy Scouts of America Sagamore Council 162$59,00022%
Lafayette Transitional Housing Center Inc$56,50031%
Wabash Center Inc$40,00020%
Henderson Settlement Inc$38,20060%
Trinity Horizons Inc$31,00031%
Young Womens Christian Association of Greater Lafayette$30,75011%
Harrison Highschool Robotics Boosters Inc$25,0004n/a
Golden Broncho Club Inc$23,00023%
Servants at Work Inc$20,00021%
Woodhaven Rescue Farm Inc$17,800117%
Girl Scouts of Central Indiana Inc$15,30010%
Humane Society for Greater Lafayette Inc$10,00011%
Lafayette Tree Fund Inc$9,50027%
Caregiver Companion Inc$9,30042%
Loving Paws Animal Center$4,00015%
Good Samaritan Project Incorporated$2,5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($540k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLafayette Parks Foundation Inc: $361,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetPaws N Claws Animal Shelter: $290,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetFood Finders Food Bank Inc: $249,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIvy Tech Foundation Inc: $208,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA Camp Tecumseh Inc: $144,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLafayette Urban Ministry Inc: $140,300 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetNiches Land Trust Inc: $140,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetAssociation for Space Science Eng & Tech Inc: $113,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetBauer Family Resources Inc: $112,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThomas Duncan Hall Inc: $110,967 over 6y, 12% of budgetLyn Treece Boys & Girls Club of Tippecanoe County: $80,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAlmost Home Humane Society Inc: $64,700 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Sagamore Council 162: $59,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLafayette Transitional Housing Center Inc: $56,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWabash Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHenderson Settlement Inc: $38,200 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTrinity Horizons Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of Greater Lafayette: $30,750 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGolden Broncho Club Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetServants at Work Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWoodhaven Rescue Farm Inc: $17,800 over 1y, 17% of budgetGirl Scouts of Central Indiana Inc: $15,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society for Greater Lafayette Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLafayette Tree Fund Inc: $9,500 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCaregiver Companion Inc: $9,300 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetLoving Paws Animal Center: $4,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Greater Lafayette Community FoundationIN43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lafayette Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Lafayette · Sia Foundation Inc · The McAllister Foundation · James K and Mary Jo Risk Family Foundation Inc · The Scheumann Foundation Inc · North Central Health Services Inc · Coffin Family Foundation Inc · Arconic Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation

How much does Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation give?
Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $584,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (16%), Animals (13%), Religion (11%).
Who are Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lafayette Parks Foundation Inc ($361k), Paws N Claws Animal Shelter ($290k), Food Finders Food Bank Inc ($249k).
Does Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lafayette Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Lafayette, Sia Foundation Inc.
Where is Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation based?
Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 48 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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