South Carolina · Private foundation
The McAlister Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $481k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $245k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 12% of the organizations The McAlister Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 17 | $245k | 18% |
| FY2025 | 17 | $255k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $237k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $194k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $173k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $146k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $160k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First United Methodist Church | $455,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Hospice of Laurens County Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Fuller Center for Housing of McCormick Sc Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Bridging the Gap Advocacy | $17,500 | 3 | 13% |
| Laurens County Cancer Association | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| C4 Ministries of Laurens County | $9,000 | 3 | 2% |
| New Prospect Baptist Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Museum of the Upstate Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($796k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The McAlister Foundation
- How much does The McAlister Foundation give?
- The McAlister Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $245,000, out of $481,222 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2025.
- What does The McAlister Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (36%), Human Services (12%), Religion (12%).
- Who are The McAlister Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2026: First United Methodist Church ($455k), Hospice of Laurens County Inc ($80k), Fuller Center for Housing of McCormick Sc Inc ($35k).
- Does The McAlister Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The McAlister Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The McAlister Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The McAlister Foundation based?
- The McAlister Foundation is based in SC.
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