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Harold McAlister Charitable 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $307k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $650k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| CASA DEL HERRERO | $200,000 |
| CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARA | $100,000 |
| COTTAGE HEALTH | $100,000 |
| ST JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| SAN FERNANDO VALLEY FC | $35,000 |
| BEVERLY HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| THE COLLEAGUES | $30,000 |
| CALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MOXI | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +48% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $555k 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
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $976k · revenue +71%- SJSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE4× · 2017–2020 · $575k · revenue +48%
- SCSANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- HTHEAL THE BAYone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +8%
- WOWORLD OF CHILDREN AWARDone grant, 2017 · $30k
- SVST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +14%
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.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Moxie Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 68 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 CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CASA DEL HERRERO ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOXIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FERNANDO VALLEY FC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds LOBERO THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cottage Health ↗
- Who funds BOYS and GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA BARBARAINC ↗
- Who funds ROESSLER-CHADWICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds PET ADOPTION FUND ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HILLS ATHLETIC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOGS TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITY SHOPPE INC ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ROBINSON GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEAGUES 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: Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Www Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · Brown Family Foundation · Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation
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 Harold McAlister Charitable 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.
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
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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