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Jack and Marilyn Macallister Foundation at a glance

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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.

$121k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$373kArts & Culture$285kAnimals$140kPhilanthropy$97kEnvironment$55kHealth$39kFood & Nutrition$20kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Savvy Giving by Design: $500 → 11%K9 PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS: $1k → 12%Freedom Service Dogs: $1k → 8%K9 Partners for Patriots: $500 → 12%Freedom Service Dogs: $1k → 8%Freedom Service Dogs: $1k → 8%Freedom Service Dogs: $1k → 8%Gunnison Country Food Pantry: $3k → 10%Gunnison Country Food Pantry: $3k → 10%Gunnison Country Food Pantry: $2k → 10%SIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING: $1k → 10%GUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 10%Gunnison Country Food Pantry: $675 → 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

WA
ID
NY
OR
IA
CA
CO
NE
VA
TN
LA
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$984k · 28 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +62% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
25

Total granted

$984k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+62%

Still filing today

50%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsHealthCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +70%
  • GV
    GUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG
    9× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +227%
  • WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $43k · revenue +177%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +213%
  • CB
    Crested Butte Adaptive Sports Cente
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
2
Front Range German Shepherd Rescue Inc

Rescues dogs, rehomes German shepherds, and provides medical and shelter care.

Animals
3
Predator Defense

Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.

Animals
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Dogs Unbroken

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…

Animals
6
Rocky Mountain Wild

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…

Environment
7
Good Dog Rescue

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.

Animals
8
International Snow Leopard Trust

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…

Animals
9
Poudre Wilderness Volunteers

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…

Environment
10
Noco Humane

Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.

Animals
11
Northern Jaguar Project

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.

Animals
12
Big Thompson Watershed Coalition

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 56 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUNNISON ARTS CENTER: $250,000 · OtherGUNNISON ARTS CENTERGUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG: $132,000 · OtherGUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $112,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE: $97,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THEWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY: $47,500 · OtherWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITYWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $42,700 · OtherUniversity of Northern CO: $30,000 · Other+31 more: $93,700 · Other+31 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $135,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …+2 more: $2,350 · EducationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY: $52,300 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $36,500 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthGUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC: $8,175 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $4,350 · Human ServicesK9 PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS: $1,500 · Human ServicesSIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT: $9,500 · Food & NutritionTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,350 · AnimalsTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,675 · AnimalsLONG LIVE THE KINGS: $1,000 · Animals
Other$805,400Education$137,350Philanthropy$53,300Health$38,000Human Services$20,525Food & Nutrition$9,500Animals$7,025

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGUNNISON VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAG: $132,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY: $52,300 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $42,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $36,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNTAIN ROOTS FOOD PROJECT: $9,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGUNNISON COUNTRY FOOD PANTRY INC: $8,175 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGunnison Trails Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $4,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE OF GUNNISON VALLEY: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $1,675 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Dawgs Project: $1,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetK9 PARTNERS FOR PATRIOTS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO FALLEN HERO FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIDAHO RIVERS UNITED: $1,350 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIVER GATE: $1,350 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKREWE OF RED BEANS: $1,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHIELD 616 INC: $1,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONG LIVE THE KINGS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIX POINTS EVALUATION AND TRAINING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA WOLF CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavvy Giving By Design Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Community Foundation …Dea Family FoundationMile High United Way …Rocky Mountain Health…Anschutz Family Found…El Pomar FoundationThe Denver FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Greater Houston Commu…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jack and Marilyn Macallister Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack and Marilyn Macallister Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%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
    1get no government money at all
    13report 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 Jack and Marilyn Macallister Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jack and Marilyn Macallister 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 56 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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