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The McAllister Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The McAllister Charitable 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.

$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$368kAnimals$41kInternational$40kPhilanthropy$25kEnvironment$8kReligion$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kEducation$2k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION$66,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$20,000
MANY HOPES INC$20,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE SPCA FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $16k → 12%CHAPEL OF THE CROSS: $3k → 14%HOUSTON ZOOASANTE SOCIETY: $2k → 16%WORLD WILDLIFE FUND: $6k → 14%SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC: $20k → 9%MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA: $50k → 13%RED WOLF COALITION: $5k → 20%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%MID-COAST FIRE BRIGADE: $2k → 12%HOUSTON SPCA: $16k → 16%UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $82k → 13%VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $1k → 12%WORD OF TRUTH REVIVIAL WORSHIP: $1k → 16%UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $70k → 13%MID-COAST FIRE BRIGADE: $1k → 12%UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $66k → 13%VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $500 → 12%UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM: $2k → 12%UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$373k · 3 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$373k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+62%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
AnimalsEducationEnvironmentInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $368k · revenue +10%
  • MC
    MID COAST FIRE BRIGADE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue -30%
  • VW
    VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • HS
    HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue -5%
  • SF
    Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey Countygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +88%
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
4
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
7
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
8
Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals
9
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
10
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
11
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mid Coast Fire Brigade. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $368,168 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $2,000 · EducationMANY HOPES INC: $20,000 · InternationalMANY HOPE…Save The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 · InternationalSave The …HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $16,000 · AnimalsSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County: $16,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $2,000 · AnimalsVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $1,500 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherCHAPEL OF THE CROSS: $3,000 · OtherHOUSTON ZOOASANTE SOCIETY: $2,400 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $5,500 · EnvironmentRED WOLF COALITION: $5,000 · EnvironmentMID COAST FIRE BRIGADE: $3,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$370,168International$40,000Animals$35,500Other$31,400Environment$10,500Public Safety & Disaster$3,000

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 budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $368,168 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County: $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED WOLF COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMID COAST FIRE BRIGADE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDavidson College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to The McAllister Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The McAllister Charitable 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 15 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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