· Private foundation
Jack and Marilyn Macallister 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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUNNISON ARTS CENTER | $35,000 |
| GUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE | $24,000 |
| WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GUNNISON VALLEY MENTORS | $7,500 |
| GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GUNNISON VALLEY FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% 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 +82% since the first grant, against +62% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +70%
- GVGUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +227%
WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $43k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +213%
- CBCrested Butte Adaptive Sports Centeone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Rescues dogs, rehomes German shepherds, and provides medical and shelter care.
Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Dog Rescue Dogs Unbroken supports Colorado dogs at higher risk for euthanasia evaluating their behavioral stability and applying training methods appropriate for their needs. The goal of helping each dog learn to make good choices in…
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
To save dogs from high kill shelters and place them into loving foster homes. Prior to adoption our dogs will be vetted, spayed or neutered and nurtured to join a supportive and loving home environment.
The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…
Poudre Wilderness Volunteers (PWV) is a Larimer County, Colorado, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996. The mission of PWV is to assist the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the United States Forest Service in managing and…
Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.
The mission of the northern jaguar project is to preserve and recover the world's northermost population of the jaguar, its unique natural habitat, and native wildlife under its protection as a flagship, keystone, and umbrella species.
Vision: a healthy and resilient big thompson watershed benefitting fish, wildlife, and the people itserves through collaborative efforts for current and future generations. mission: working with others to take action that protects and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley and the most unlike its peers is Idaho Rivers United. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% 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 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 56 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Gunnison Trails Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Dawgs Project ↗
- Who funds K9 PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS ↗
- Who funds COLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDAHO RIVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SIVER GATE ↗
- Who funds KREWE OF RED BEANS ↗
- Who funds SHIELD 616 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · Dea Family Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Jack and Marilyn Macallister 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.
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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