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Ally Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
182
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 182 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k146 grants · $2.8M
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
$20,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$400,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS$400,000
THE OTHER SIDE ACADEMY$284,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE CHARLOTTE REGION INC$250,000
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC$114,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$107,000
THE OTHER SIDE ACADEMY$100,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER$100,000
EMERGING INDUSTRIES TRAINING INSTITUTE$100,000
UGF INSTITUTE INC$100,000
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY$100,000
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$100,000
INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION$100,000
SUCCESS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$75,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $25k → 21%Friends of Switchpoint: $30k → 10%DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $25k → 21%Pope Francis Center: $25k → 21%Charlotte Family Housing: $50k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $25k → 21%Charlotte Family Housing: $30k → 10%Opportunity Resource Fund: $25k → 16%DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $25k → 21%Charlotte Family Housing: $25k → 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING INC: $25k → 10%National Association Of Investors Corporation: $55k → 8%ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL: $35k → 21%Covenant House Michigan: $25k → 21%Dottie Rose Foundation: $45k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $25k → 21%Covenant House Michigan: $25k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $25k → 21%Covenant House Michigan: $25k → 21%DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%GARDHOUSE LIMITED: $50k → 10%Gardhouse Limited: $50k → 10%Gardhouse Limited: $30k → 10%SOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS: $50k → 21%GARDHOUSE LIMITED: $25k → 10%SouthWest Economic Solutions: $50k → 21%THE RELATIVES INC: $25k → 10%ADA JENKINS FAMILIES AND CAREERS DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $25k → 10%Foundation For Girls: $28k → 10%The Relatives Inc: $130k → 10%Supportive Housing Communities Inc: $75k → 10%Supportive Housing Communities Inc: $60k → 10%Supportive Housing Communities Inc: $50k → 10%The Relatives Inc: $45k → 10%Turn Community Services Inc: $35k → 8%SUPPORTIVE HOUSING COMMUNITIES INC: $25k → 10%TURN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 8%TURN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 8%RIGHT MOVES FOR YOUTH INC: $25k → 10%Crisis Assistance Ministry: $50k → 10%Crisis Assistance Ministry: $50k → 10%Neighborhood House Association: $25k → 8%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $25k → 10%FOR THE STRUGGLE INC: $50k → 10%For The Struggle Inc: $50k → 10%For The Struggle Inc: $30k → 10%DOTTIE ROSE FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%Loaves & Fishes Inc: $50k → 10%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

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 185 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

185 repeat relationships: 141 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

185
80

Total granted

$26M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-6%

Still filing today

89%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $957k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +31%
  • GM
    GIVE MERIT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +212%
  • LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • LE
    LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -11%
  • TM
    TMCF-Ally Moguls in the Making
    one grant, 2021 · $115k
  • SA
    Sullenberger Aviation Museum
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -11%
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.

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Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
2
Cityworks Dc

Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…

Education
3
The Stride Center

As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…

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4
The Collective Blueprint

Our mission is to increase socioeconomic mobility by building pathways to thriving careers.

Employment
5
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

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6
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
7
Enterprise Community Investment Inc

All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…

Housing & Shelter
8
Activate Work Inc

We provide training, coaching, community supports and access to leading colorado employers enabling coloradans to acheive economic security, mobility and prosperity.

Human Services
9
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise

Mission: to create economically diverse neighborhoods filled with financially empowered citizens and housing for all.vision: all chattanoogans can afford a safe place in a strong neighborhood to call home. belief: we believe the future of…

Housing & Shelter
10
Towards Employment Inc

We champion the potential of every person to succeed in a rewarding career, while working to create an equitable and inclusive workforce for tomorrow. we do this by providing skill development for in demand jobs, comprehensive supports,…

Employment
11
Charlotte Works

Charlotte works serves job-seekers and businesses by providing resources to develop a skilled workforce that meets employer needs. the organization offers job-search workshops, individual coaching, networking opportunities, and training…

Employment
12
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Working in Support of Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is West Side Clt. 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

251 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. 251 of the 301 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)
48
Early backer (in before they grew)
247/251
Grantees still filing
149/251
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region: $1,000,000 · OtherHabitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Reg…WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $350,000 · OtherGIVE MERIT INC: $1,070,000 · OtherGIVE MERIT INCThe Other Side Academy: $934,000 · OtherThe Other Side AcademyREBUILDING TOGETHER INC: $350,000 · Other+78 more: $6,750,891 · Other+78 moreATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,025,000 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FO…CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $310,000 · HealthCHARLOTTE RESCUE…Wasatch Homeless Health Care: $170,000 · Health+9 more: $585,300 · Health+9 moreThurgood Marshall College Fund: $634,984 · EducationThurgood Marsh…UGF Institute Inc: $590,000 · EducationUGF Institute …EMERGING INDUSTRIES TRAINING INSTITUTE: $265,000 · EducationEMERGING INDUS…Journi Incorporated: $175,000 · EducationBEATTIES FORD ROAD VOC TRADE CENTER: $150,000 · EducationMICHIGAN COLLEGE ACCESS NETWORK: $150,000 · EducationCommunities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc: $140,000 · EducationDigi-Bridge: $130,000 · Education+22 more: $1,478,500 · Education+22 moreTHE RELATIVES INC: $240,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELATI…Supportive Housing Communities Inc: $225,000 · Human ServicesSupportive…FOR THE STRUGGLE INC: $155,000 · Human ServicesFOR THE ST…GardHouse Limited: $155,000 · Human ServicesGardHouse …Charlotte Family Housing: $145,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE MICHIGAN: $125,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance Ministry: $125,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesTURN Community Services Inc: $105,000 · Human ServicesDottie Rose Foundation: $95,000 · Human Services+23 more: $1,260,498 · Human Services+23 moreKEN GARFF FOR GOOD: $545,000 · Youth DevelopmentKEN GARFF …JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $502,900 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACH…THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MIDNIG…LAWN ACADEMY: $185,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWN ACADE…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $185,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…CAUGHT UP: $177,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAUGHT UPBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas: $172,000 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothe…CITY STARTUP LABS INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentCITY START…THE SOLA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SOLA F…100 BLACK MEN OF GREATER DETROIT INC: $110,000 · Youth Development+5 more: $295,000 · Youth Development+5 moreLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,040,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INIT…LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $200,000 · Community ImprovementLATINO ECO…Friendship Community Development Corporation: $185,000 · Community ImprovementFriendship…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $125,000 · Community ImprovementBoost Pad Inc: $125,000 · Community ImprovementProsperus Detroit Micro Lending: $111,000 · Community ImprovementINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Community Improvement+14 more: $640,000 · Community Improvement+14 moreFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATIO…UNITED WAY OF GENESEE COUNTY: $803,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $170,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…FEARLESS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $100,000 · Philanthropy
Other$10,454,891Health$4,090,300Education$3,713,484Human Services$2,750,498Youth Development$2,671,900Community Improvement$2,526,000Philanthropy$2,373,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,025,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 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.

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…Wells Fargo FoundationMerancas Foundation I…Sorenson Legacy Found…George S and Dolores …The Leon Levine Found…United Way for Southe…Foundation for the Ca…DTE Energy FoundationThe Community Foundat…Lawrence & Janet Dee …The Presbyterian Hosp…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ally Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ally Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    76report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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