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The McAllister 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $29k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $29,000 |
| PAWS N CLAWS ANIMAL SHELTER INC | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2021–2025 · $118k
- FFFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC3× · 2021–2025 · $111k · revenue -4%
- ITIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $105k · revenue -2%
Funded once
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAFAYETTEone grant, 2020 · $31k · revenue -26%
- SOSEEDS OF HOPE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2020 · $30k
- WCWABASH CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +25%
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.
The mission of lafayette industries is to provide meaningful employment opportunities to persons with developmental disabilities and to persons with other disabilities who are 18 years or older.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
Employment and training services
Chamber of commerce for laporte, indiana
To solicit, receive, and provide funds and/or property, and to receive gifts, bequests, and memorials for securing, maintaining, and informing the public about facilities and programs provided by the parks and recreation department of the…
The family ymca of fayette county offers various programs provided to promote christian values, health enhancement, family enrichment, and leadership development in youth and adults.
The organization was organized for the benefit and support of its related 501(c)(3) health care entities which provide medical care to restore, maintain and improve the health of the community in which it serves.
To restore, maintain, and imprive health of the people in the communities we serve.
Niches protects, restores and sustains northern indiana's ecosystems by providing habitat for native species and offering natural places for the education, appreciation and enjoyment of current and future generations.
The mission of lafayette industries is to provide meaningful employment opportunities to persons with developmental disabilities and to persons with other disabilities who are 18 years or older.
To educate and inspire this generation to impact the culture for christ. lcs operates an early learning center, discovery cottage, collaborative school, preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school. summer camps are offered.…
Direct enterprise zone activities and reinvestment in the city of lafayette, indiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ivy Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws N Claws Animal Shelter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds WABASH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA CAMP TECUMSEH INC ↗
- Who funds LYN TREECE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TIPPECANOE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE TREE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS N CLAWS ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Alfred J McAllister and Dorothy N McAllister Foundation · North Central Health Services Inc · James K and Mary Jo Risk Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Lafayette · Sia Foundation Inc · Greater Lafayette Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Bauer Family Resources Inc · The Scheumann Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 McAllister 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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