· Private foundation
The Douglas F Allison Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k7 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACKINAC CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $250,000 |
| VISTA MARIA | $205,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $200,000 |
| KIRK IN THE HILLS | $200,000 |
| GLEANERS COMMNITY FOOD BANKS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $200,000 |
| FREEDOM RIVER INC | $150,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| LIBERTAS INSTITUTE | $120,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $850k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k 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
- MCMACKINAC CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +64%
FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC3× · 2020–2023 · $600k · revenue +2%- JCJUDSON CENTER INC4× · 2019–2023 · $550k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- APANGEL'S PLACEone grant, 2023 · $150k
- LHLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $150k
- AHAMERICAN HOUSE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $150k
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.
We, trinity senior living communities and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence in our communities.glacier hills is a member of the trinity senior living communities…
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
We, trinity health pace and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health pace is a member of trinity health.
To provide healthcare as you would expect for your own family.
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
We, trinity senior living communities and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity continuing care services (d/b/a trinity health senior…
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Nuture development. foster resilience. cultivate well-being.
Creating healthy communities - together
It is the mission of the evangelical homes of michigan, a health and human service ministry related to the united church of christ, to provide health and housing services to persons who are elderly in manner which respects their rights,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rose Hill Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 MACKINAC CENTER ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds VISTA MARIA ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds Libertas Network ↗
- Who funds ST ANNES MEAD ↗
- Who funds ROSE HILL CENTER 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.
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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 The Douglas F Allison 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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