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Ally Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
182
Grants FY2024
175
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
52 to 175
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$90M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Ally Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $771k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving176$6.5M20%
FY2023175$6.8M24%
FY2022168$7.6M26%
FY2021165$6.7M77%
FY202052$1.7Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$5.3MHealth$4.4MYouth Development$4.4MHousing & Shelter$3.9MCommunity Improvement$3.9MPhilanthropy$2.4MHuman Services$1.8MEmployment$1.8MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
MI
NY
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
NC
SC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 257 grantees
All grantees of Ally Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Atrium Health Foundation$3,025,00042%
Give Merit Inc$1,070,00021%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$1,040,00030%
Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region$1,000,00041%
The Other Side Academy$934,00042%
United Way of Genesee County$803,00027%
Thurgood Marshall College Fund$634,98421%
UGF Institute Inc$590,000481%
Ken Garff for Good$545,00054%
Junior Achievement USA$502,90040%
Rebuilding Together Inc$350,00041%
Weber State University$350,0003n/a
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc$321,00040%
Charlotte Rescue Mission$310,00031%
Emerging Industries Training Institute$265,00058%
The Relatives Inc$240,00052%
Supportive Housing Communities Inc$225,00052%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit$213,20047%
Latino Economic Development Corporation$200,00011%
The Midnight Golf Program$200,00052%
Lawn Academy$185,000413%
Friendship Community Development Corporation$185,00047%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan$185,00032%
Caught Up$177,000435%
North Carolina Council on Economic Education Inc$175,00057%
Journi Incorporated$175,000419%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas$172,00052%
Wasatch Homeless Health Care$170,00040%
United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc$170,00040%
Roof Above Inc$165,00050%
Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program$165,00051%
Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc$165,00051%
For the Struggle Inc$155,00048%
GardHouse Limited$155,000415%
Beatties Ford Road Voc Trade Center$150,000423%
City Startup Labs Inc$150,00046%
West Side CLT$150,00047%
Michigan College Access Network$150,00041%
Crossroads Corporation for Affordable Housing and Community Development Inc$150,00044%
Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation$150,00040%
Urban League of Central Carolinas Inc$150,00053%
The Sola Foundation$150,00032%
Charlotte Family Housing$145,00051%
Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc$140,00050%
Man to Man Project$130,0004n/a
Digi-Bridge$130,00055%
Premier Foundation of North Carolina$130,0004n/a
Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont Inc$130,00050%
Covenant House Michigan$125,00050%
Crisis Assistance Ministry$125,00030%
Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit$125,00031%
Boost Pad Inc$125,000327%
Southwest Economic Solutions Inc$120,00032%
Aspire Community Capital$118,00058%
Vista Maria$115,00040%
Winning Futures$115,00052%
Prosperus Detroit Micro Lending$111,00042%
100 Black Men of Greater Detroit Inc$110,000521%
Afsa Education Foundation$110,00042%
Maliheh Free Clinic$105,00042%
Cranbrook Educational Community$105,00050%
Alternatives for Girls$105,00041%
TURN Community Services Inc$105,00040%
Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit$102,60040%
Sullenberger Aviation Museum$100,00012%
Southern Bancorp Capital Partners$100,00011%
Cass Community Social Services Inc$100,00021%
Invest Detroit Foundation$100,00010%
Fearless Foundation$100,00012%
Renaissance West Community Initiative$100,00022%
Dottie Rose Foundation$95,00037%
St Anne's Center$93,00041%
Sifma Foundation for Investor Education (Fie) Inc$90,50021%
First Step House$90,00040%
Road2hire$90,00013%
Working in Support of Education Inc$85,50041%
Community Development Corporation of Utah$85,00041%
Treehouse Children's Museum$85,00042%
The Greening of Detroit$85,00032%
International Rescue Committee INC$85,00040%
Neighborhood House Association$85,00040%
The Road Home$80,00040%
Detroit Public Schools Foundation$80,00022%
Mission Economic Development Agency$80,00040%
Journey of Hope Inc$80,00047%
Holy Cross Ministries of Utah$80,00041%
Rural Housing Development Corporation$80,00041%
Filmnorth$80,00014%
The Inn Between$80,00041%
Mountain Country Home Solutions$80,00041%
Detroit Phoenix Center$75,00033%
Nourish Up$75,00021%
Gleaners Community Food Bank of Southeastern Michigan$75,00020%
Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation$75,00042%
Hope Haven Inc$70,30040%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salt Lake$70,00040%
Gen-One Inc$70,00034%
United Community Housing Coalition$70,00020%
Volunteers of America Utah$65,40040%
Women of the World$65,00145%
Christian Center of Park City$65,00040%
Wallace Stegner Academy$65,00040%
Circle De Luz Inc$65,000215%
Park City Tots Inc$60,00041%
Bountiful Community Food Pantry$60,00040%
Artspace$60,00040%
Common Wealth Associates Inc$60,00032%
Community Nursing Service$60,00040%
Crossroads Urban Center$60,00041%
People Helping People$60,00042%
Community Action Services and Food Bank$60,00040%
Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho$60,00041%
She Built This City$60,00032%
R Bruce Irons Camp Fund$60,00044%
Foundation For Girls$57,500327%
Orangewood Foundation$55,00030%
Suazo Business Center$55,00042%
Apparo Solutions Inc$55,00032%
National Association of Investors Corporation$55,00012%
MeckEd$55,00041%
Project Scientist Inc$55,00031%
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation$50,00010%
Freedom Communities$50,00021%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeast Michigan$50,00013%
Zaman International$50,00021%
Johnson C Smith University$50,00010%
Pope Francis Center$50,00020%
Dress for Success Charlotte$50,00032%
Lonely Entrepreneur Inc$50,00012%
Discovery Place Inc$50,00010%
The Michigan Hispanic Collaborative$50,00011%
Alliance House Inc$50,00041%
Henry Ford Health System$50,00010%
Charlotte Regional Business Alliance Foundation$50,00013%
United Way for Southeastern Michigan$50,00010%
Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc$50,00010%
Autism Alliance of Michigan$50,00011%
Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc$45,00021%
The New Common School Foundation$45,00020%
Queens University of Charlotte$45,00020%
Npower Inc$45,00020%
Utah Partners for Health$45,00040%
SchermCo Foundation$45,000210%
The Children's Center Utah$45,00030%
The Sharing Place$45,00033%
The Harvest Center of Charlotte Inc$45,00022%
Community Link Programs of Travelers Aid Society of Central Carolinas Inc$45,00021%
Sistahs Reachin Out$45,000225%
Mountainlands Community Housing Associat$45,00030%
Sme Education Foundation$45,00020%
Beds for Kids Inc$45,00022%
Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah$42,99840%
Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan$40,00020%
Wasatch Community Gardens$40,00041%
California Community Economic Development Association$40,00041%
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit$40,00031%
Pacific Coast Regional Small Business Development Corporation$40,00040%
Michigan Council on Economic Education$40,000213%
Detroit Food & Entrepreneurship Academy$40,00023%
CDC Small Business Finance Corporation$40,00040%
The Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development$40,00020%
Right Moves for Youth Inc$40,00023%
Inclusive Action for the City$40,00040%
RAIN Inc$40,00020%
California Community Reinvestment Corporation$38,50020%
Our Daily Bread Foundation$35,000211%
Accounting Aid Society$35,00030%
Neighborhood Housing Services of Los Angeles County$35,00030%
Rural Community Assistance Corporation$35,00020%
Freedom Fighting Missionaries Inc$35,00022%
Habitat for Humanity of Summit & Wasatch Counties Utah Inc$32,50041%
Cots$30,00010%
Campus Pride Inc$30,00015%
Friends of Switchpoint Inc$30,00010%
Just Do It Movement Inc$30,000210%
Clemson University Foundation$30,00010%
Fly Foundation$30,0002n/a
Racquet Up Detroit$30,00030%
Senior Charity Care Foundation$30,00034%
Carolina Farm Trust Inc$30,00024%
Utah Housing Coalition Inc$30,00034%
Intech Foundation Inc$30,000213%
Utah Microenterprise Loan Fund$30,00032%
Home Again Foundation$30,00016%
Housing Connect Fund$30,000325%
Midtown Detroit Inc$27,50011%
Opportunity Resource Fund$25,00011%
Forgotten Harvest Inc$25,00010%
Cms Foundation$25,00012%
Hack and Hustle Social Entrepreneurship Academy$25,000218%
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order Inc$25,0001n/a
Guadalupe Center$25,0001n/a
Strategic Community Partners Inc$25,00011%
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc$25,00010%
Housing Collaborative$25,00010%
Islamic Center of Detroit Inc$25,0001n/a
Streetwise Partners Inc$25,00011%
Mariners Inn$25,00011%
Detroit Zoological Society$25,00010%
Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center$25,00010%
The Academy of Goal Achievers$25,000110%
Teach for America Inc$25,00010%
Global Detroit$25,00011%
Spy Hop Productions$20,00040%
Veterans Bridge Home Inc$20,00011%
Do Greater Foundation Inc$20,00011%
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries$20,00010%
Methodist Children's Home Society$20,00010%
Grand 7 Detroit Incorporated$20,000115%
Friends of the Children - Detroit$20,00012%
ourBRIDGE Inc$20,00011%
Utah Regional Housing Corporation$20,00010%
Detroit Police Athletic League Incorporated$20,00010%
Food Bank of Eastern Michigan$20,00010%
Tmc Community Capital$20,00020%
MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist$20,00010%
Neighborhood Service Organization$20,00010%
California Association for Microenterprise Opportunity$20,00020%
Instituto de Avance Integral Latino CDC$20,00041%
ANSWER Scholarship Inc$15,00018%
Knothole Foundation Knothole Foundation$15,00011%
Detroit Public Media$15,00010%
Neighborworks Capital Corporation$15,00010%
Aaa Fair Credit Foundation$15,00013%
Haven Services$15,00031%
Accelerate 500 Inc$15,00010%
Fearless Brown Girls Incorporated$15,000119%
Central Piedmont Community College Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Carolina Youth Coalition$15,00010%
Charlotte Area Fund Inc$15,00011%
Cakeable Charlotte Inc$15,00012%
Detroit Cristo Rey High School Inc$15,0001n/a
The Konnection$15,00014%
Stiletto Boss University$15,00018%
Lake Norman Community Development Corporation$15,00013%
Raza Development Fund Inc$15,00010%
Three Pillars an Educational Service Provider$15,00010%
Money Magnets Club$15,00016%
George Washington Carver Food Research Institute$15,00019%
Focushope$15,00010%
Comunidades Unidas$15,00011%
Freedom School Partners Inc$15,00011%
Community Treehouse Center Detroit$10,00010%
Girl Scouts Hornets Nest Council$10,00010%
A Girl Like Me Inc$10,00014%
Safe House Project Inc$10,00010%
Salt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services DBA Neighborworks Salt Lake$10,00010%
Metrolina Association for the Blind Inc$10,00010%
Families Forward Charlotte Inc$10,00011%
Roc USA LLC$10,00010%
Ima Recreation Association$10,00011%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Flint$7,05510%
Flint Junior Golf Association$5,00016%
Educare Foundation$5,00020%
Hope Ignites Detroit$5,00010%
Think Together$5,00020%
Odyssey House Inc - Utah$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ally Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAtrium Health Foundation: $3,025,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetGive Merit Inc: $1,070,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLocal Initiatives Support Corporation: $1,040,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $934,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetUnited Way of Genesee County: $803,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $634,984 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUGF Institute Inc: $590,000 over 4y, 81% of budgetKen Garff for Good: $545,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetJunior Achievement USA: $502,900 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRebuilding Together Inc: $350,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCongressional Black Caucus Foundation Inc: $321,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCharlotte Rescue Mission: $310,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEmerging Industries Training Institute: $265,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetThe Relatives Inc: $240,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSupportive Housing Communities Inc: $225,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Detroit: $213,200 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetLatino Economic Development Corporation: $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Midnight Golf Program: $200,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetLawn Academy: $185,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetFriendship Community Development Corporation: $185,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan: $185,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCaught Up: $177,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetNorth Carolina Council on Economic Education Inc: $175,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetJourni Incorporated: $175,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas: $172,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $170,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Charlotte Inc: $170,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRoof Above Inc: $165,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDowntown Boxing Gym Youth Program: $165,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetYoung Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc: $165,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFor the Struggle Inc: $155,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetGardHouse Limited: $155,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetBeatties Ford Road Voc Trade Center: $150,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetCity Startup Labs Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetWest Side CLT: $150,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetMichigan College Access Network: $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCrossroads Corporation for Affordable Housing and Community Development Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetDetroit Employment Solutions Corporation: $150,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUrban League of Central Carolinas Inc: $150,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetThe Sola Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing: $145,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCommunities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc: $140,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDigi-Bridge: $130,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetGoodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont Inc: $130,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House Michigan: $125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $125,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit: $125,000 over 3y, 0.7% 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 200.

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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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC98.4× affinity54 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Foundation for the Carolinas · DTE Energy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital

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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How do I get to Ally Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ally 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.

About Ally Charitable Foundation

How much does Ally Charitable Foundation give?
Ally Charitable Foundation reported 182 grants totaling $6,888,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 175 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Ally Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Health (15%), Youth Development (14%).
Who are Ally Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Atrium Health Foundation ($3.0M), Give Merit Inc ($1.1M), Local Initiatives Support Corporation ($1.0M).
Does Ally Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ally Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ally Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, Wells Fargo Foundation, Merancas Foundation Inc.
Where is Ally Charitable Foundation based?
Ally Charitable Foundation is based in NC.

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 301 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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