· Private foundation
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 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.
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 |
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 (FY20–21, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2021–2025 · $118k
- FFFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC3× · 2021–2025 · $111k · revenue +7%
- 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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The McAllister Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The McAllister Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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