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The Douglas F Allison Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$2.8MPublic Benefit$1.6MReligion$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.1MEducation$600kYouth Development$300kHousing & Shelter$250kRecreation & Sports$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$200,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JUDSON CENTER: $200k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $150k → 8%ANGEL'S PLACE: $150k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $150k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $100k → 8%JUDSON CENTER: $100k → 8%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.9M · 13 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$6.9M
$750k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-6%

Still filing today

62%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $470k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitHuman ServicesFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • MC
    MACKINAC CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +64%
  • FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $600k · revenue +2%
  • JC
    JUDSON CENTER INC
    4× · 2019–2023 · $550k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AH
    AMERICAN HOUSE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • AP
    ANGEL'S PLACE
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • LH
    LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
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
Glacier Hills Inc

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…

Human Services
2
The Trustees of Grinnell College

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…

Education
3
Trinity Health Pace

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.

—
4
Vitalcare Inc

To provide healthcare as you would expect for your own family.

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5
Mclaren Northern Michigan

Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.

Health
6
Mercy Health Partners

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.

—
7
Trinity Continuing Care Services

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…

Health
8
Trinity Health - Michigan

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.

Health
9
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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10
The Guidance Center

Nuture development. foster resilience. cultivate well-being.

Health
11
Mymichigan Health

Creating healthy communities - together

Health
12
Lifechoices Inc

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,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rose Hill Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $1,100,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYKIRK IN THE HILLS: $550,000 · OtherKIRK IN THE HILLSBEAUMONT FOUNDATION: $375,000 · OtherBEAUMONT FOUNDATIONCHRIST CHURCH CRANBROOK: $350,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH CRANBROOKGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $350,000 · OtherGRACE CENTERS OF HOPEVISTA MARIA: $305,000 · OtherVISTA MARIACHRIST CHILD SOCIETY DETROIT: $250,000 · OtherCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY DETROITGLEANERS COMMNITY FOOD BANKS OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $200,000 · OtherAMERICAN HOUSE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherANGEL'S PLACE: $150,000 · OtherLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL: $150,000 · Other+2 more: $200,000 · OtherMACKINAC CENTER: $1,550,000 · Public BenefitMACKINAC CENTERFREEDOM RIVER INC: $150,000 · Public BenefitFREEDOM RIVER INCLibertas Network: $120,000 · Public BenefitLibertas NetworkFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $600,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HA…GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $350,000 · Food & NutritionGLEANERS COM…JUDSON CENTER INC: $550,000 · Human ServicesJUDSON CENT…ANGELS' PLACE: $300,000 · Human ServicesANGELS' PLA…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $450,000 · EducationRACQUET UP DETROIT: $300,000 · Recreation & SportsROSE HILL CENTER INC: $100,000 · Health
Other$4,130,000Public Benefit$1,820,000Food & Nutrition$950,000Human Services$850,000Education$450,000Recreation & Sports$300,000Health$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $1,550,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $600,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUDSON CENTER INC: $550,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $350,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $305,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetANGELS' PLACE: $300,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $300,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetFREEDOM RIVER INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLibertas Network: $120,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST ANNES MEAD: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetROSE HILL CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 MACKINAC CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds JUDSON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Douglas F Allison Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Douglas F Allison Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Douglas F Allison Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Douglas F Allison 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 23 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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