· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $430k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAFAYETTE PARKS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| IVY TECH FOUNDATION | $59,000 |
| PAWS & CLAWS ANIMAL SHELTER INC | $37,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $35,000 |
| SAGAMORE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS | $34,000 |
| LAFAYETTE URBAN MINISTRY | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $30,000 |
| LYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF | $27,750 |
| YMCA CAMP TECUMSEH | $25,000 |
| THE BRANCH WESLEYAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| THOMAS DUNCAN HALL INC | $20,000 |
| BAUER FAMILY RESOURCES INC | $20,000 |
| SEEDS OF HOPE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| ASSN FOR SPACE SCIENCE ENGINEERING | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $19,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $455k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 68% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- PNPAWS N CLAWS ANIMAL SHELTER6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +44% · 42% of their budget
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $208k · revenue +34%
- YCYMCA CAMP TECUMSEH INC5× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +419%
Funded once
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAFAYETTEone grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue -9%
- SCSAGAMORE COUNCIL BOY SCOUNTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2024 · $22k
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SAGAMORE COUNCILone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
To provide for the humane treatment of animals in clinton county, indiana
The organization provides a safe shelter for animals until they can be adopted into a lifelong home. the organization supports local law enforcement departments in animal abuse and neglect cases, works with animal rescue groups and…
To lead the community in the humane treatment of animals.
Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
To provide temporary housing and other support services to homeless families in the greater Lafayette area of Tippecanoe County, Indiana
The central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.
The humane society of scott county provides humane care for all lost, abandoned and unwanted pets in scott county, to adopt these pets to caring, responsible, life-long homes, and to educate the community about responsible pet ownership.
The purpose of the organization is to build houses for families who are financially distressed. this is a local affiliate of habitat for humanity international.
The mission of the organization is to aid, advocate and adopt to enhance the lives of companion animals.
Humane fort wayne is a trusted partner providing comprehensive, lifesaving resources to pets and their people.
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lafayette Urban Ministry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Loving Paws Animal Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 LAFAYETTE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS N CLAWS ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA CAMP TECUMSEH INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE URBAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NICHES LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR SPACE SCIENCE ENG & TECH INC ↗
- Who funds BAUER FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS DUNCAN HALL INC ↗
- Who funds LYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SAGAMORE COUNCIL 162 ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WABASH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON SETTLEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds Harrison Highschool Robotics Boosters Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN BRONCHO CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Servants at Work Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODHAVEN RESCUE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER LAFAYETTE INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE TREE FUND INC ↗
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: 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
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 Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister 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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