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 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.

Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation

Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation at a glance

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Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation

Q: 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.

Q: 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%).

Q: Does Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Where is Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation based?

Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation is based in IN.

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% 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

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $21k
$10k–50k20 grants · $430k
$50k–250k2 grants · $134k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
THE BRANCH WESLEYAN CHURCH	$25,000
YMCA CAMP TECUMSEH	$25,000
THOMAS DUNCAN HALL INC	$20,000
ASSN FOR SPACE SCIENCE ENGINEERING	$20,000
SEEDS OF HOPE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES	$20,000
BAUER FAMILY RESOURCES INC	$20,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT	$19,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.1M · 32 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.1M

$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

-9%

Still filing today

69%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

PN
PAWS N CLAWS ANIMAL SHELTER
6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +44% · 42% of their budget
IT
IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2021–2025 · $208k · revenue +34%
YC
YMCA CAMP TECUMSEH INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +419%

Funded once

YW
YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAFAYETTE
one grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue -9%
SC
SAGAMORE COUNCIL BOY SCOUNTS OF AMERICA
one grant, 2024 · $22k
BS
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SAGAMORE COUNCIL
one grant, 2020 · $20k

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.

04Its field

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.

Humane Society of Clinton County Inc

To provide for the humane treatment of animals in clinton county, indiana

Animals

Dekalb Humane Society Inc

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…

Animals

Humane Indiana Inc

To lead the community in the humane treatment of animals.

Animals

Bartholomew County Humane Society Inc

Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats

Animals

Lawrence Humane Society

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

Animals

Greater Lafayette Family Shelter Inc

To provide temporary housing and other support services to homeless families in the greater Lafayette area of Tippecanoe County, Indiana

Food & Nutrition

Central Indiana Land Trust Incorporated

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.

Environment

Humane Society of Scott County

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.

Animals

Laporte County Habitat for Humanity

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.

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Lakeshore Humane Society Inc

The mission of the organization is to aid, advocate and adopt to enhance the lives of companion animals.

Animals

Humane Fort Wayne Inc

Humane fort wayne is a trusted partner providing comprehensive, lifesaving resources to pets and their people.

Animals

Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan

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.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lafayette Urban Ministry Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/27

Grantees still filing

14/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,252,450Human Services$607,317Philanthropy$392,000Animals$368,700Food & Nutrition$249,000Education$233,000Youth Development$208,300

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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