· Private foundation
The McAlister Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAURENS FAMILY YMCA | $70,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $65,000 |
| CLINTON FAMILY YMCA | $20,000 |
| HOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY | $10,000 |
| LAURENS COUNTY CANCER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| LAURENS COUNTY FUTURE SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| LAURENS CO MEMORIAL HOME | $10,000 |
| BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY | $7,500 |
| LAURENS COUNTY MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| LAURENS COUNTY ROTARY CLUB | $6,000 |
| NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| LAURENS CO BAPTIST CRISIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| C4 OF LAURENS COUNTY FAMILY PROMISE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–26, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH7× · 2020–2026 · $455k
- LFLAURENS FAMILY YMCA7× · 2020–2026 · $390k
- CFCLINTON FAMILY YMCA5× · 2022–2026 · $100k
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $10k
- RCROTARY CLUB OF LAURENSone grant, 2021 · $4k
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE INCone grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue +11%
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.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McAlister Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McAlister Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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