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Allison Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Allison Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$426kPublic Benefit$173kPublic Safety & Disaster$101kEducation$76kFood & Nutrition$25kHousing & Shelter$21kHealth$19kArts & Culture$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CTR$37,000
MA FISCAL ALLIANCE FUND$23,500
HANDEL & HAYDEN SOCIETY$5,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$1,000
TRILATERAL COMMISSION$1,000
NEW SKETE MONASTERIES$1,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$1,000
MARSHALL FUND$1,000
CASEY TO THE RESCUE$500
ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER$500
BELMONT DAY SCHOOL$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SALVATION ARMY: $5k → 7%GORE PLACE: $10k → 8%TOWN OF DALTON: $5k → 12%HILLSDALE GOLLEGE: $3k → 14%ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $2k → 6%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%CLE Metroparks: $11k → 17%WESTERN W VIRGINIA ANIMAL RESUCE ALLIANCE: $50k → 19%DEBATE IT FORWARD: $25k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $4k → 7%GORE PLACE: $5k → 8%HANDEL & HAYDEN SOCIETY: $5k → 16%PETS ARE LOVING SUPPORT: $5k → 13%CLE Metroparks: $10k → 17%DEBATE IT FORWARD: $25k → 14%GORE PLACE: $5k → 8%HANDEL & HAYDEN SOCIETY: $2k → 16%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $3k → 17%CLE Metroparks: $5k → 17%DEBATE IT FORWARD: $13k → 14%CLE Metroparks: $5k → 17%DEBATE IT FORWARD: $10k → 14%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CTR: $80k → 7%HUNGARIAN CULTRAL GARDENS: $14k → 17%DEBATE IT FORWARD: $5k → 14%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CTR: $76k → 7%MT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $11k → 8%CENTER FOR THE NATION: $5k → 14%HUNGARIAN CULTRAL GARDENS: $5k → 17%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CTR: $52k → 7%MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $5k → 8%HUNGARIAN CULTRAL GARDENS: $5k → 17%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CTR: $37k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CTR: $35k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CTR: $30k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CTR: $27k → 7%NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CTR: $25k → 7%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%TOWN OF BELMONT POLICE: $101k → 8%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%TOWN OF BELMONT: $35k → 8%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%TOWN OF BELMONT: $5k → 8%MA FISCAL ALLIANCE FUND: $24k → 16%MA FISCAL ALLIANCE FUND: $16k → 16%FISCAL ALLIANCE FUND: $7k → 16%MA FISCAL ALLIANCE FUND: $6k → 16%MA FISCAL ALLIANCE FUND: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
WV
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$742k · 25 repeat orgs$199k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
25

Total granted

$742k
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+19%

Still filing today

52%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $361k · revenue ×15
  • PI
    PIONEER INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +117%
  • Davidson College
    8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF BELMONT POLICE
    one grant, 2020 · $101k
  • WW
    WESTERN W VIRGINIA ANIMAL RESUCE ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • FA
    FISCAL ALLIANCE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Harvard Management Company Inc

Provide investment management services to harvard university.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
12
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Association of Marshall Scholars Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Paros Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF BELMONT POLICE: $101,325 · OtherTOWN OF BELMONT POLICEDEBATE IT FORWARD: $77,500 · OtherDEBATE IT FORWARDMA FISCAL ALLIANCE FUND: $50,500 · OtherMA FISCAL ALLIANCE FUNDWESTERN W VIRGINIA ANIMAL RESUCE ALLIANCE: $50,000 · OtherWESTERN W VIRGINIA ANIMAL RESUCE ALLIANCETOWN OF BELMONT: $39,525 · OtherTOWN OF BELMONTIndividual grant recipient: $31,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUNGARIAN CULTRAL GARDENS: $24,243 · OtherGORE PLACE: $21,000 · Other+32 more: $97,560 · Other+32 moreNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $361,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC+1 more: $500 · AnimalsPIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $30,000 · EducationDavidson College: $25,000 · EducationBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC: $3,500 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $500 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $7,500 · InternationalTRILATERAL COMMISSION (NORTH AMERICA): $3,000 · InternationalMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $5,000 · HealthFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$492,653Animals$361,500Education$60,500Arts & Culture$10,500International$10,500Health$5,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $361,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetDavidson College: $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF MARSHALL SCHOLARS INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETS ARE LOVING SUPPORT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRILATERAL COMMISSION (NORTH AMERICA): $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL FUND 7522-XXXXXX00227: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PAROS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Forests: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DEBATE IT FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF MARSHALL SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds PETS ARE LOVING SUPPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds TRILATERAL COMMISSION (NORTH AMERICA) ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MARSHALL FUND 7522-XXXXXX00227 ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PAROS FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncThe Loring Wolcott & …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Allison Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allison Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
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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How do I get to Allison Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Allison Family Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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