Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

The McCallister Family 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.

$629k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Philanthropy$502kRecreation & Sports$76kEducation$40kHuman Services$38kEmployment$35kInternational$30kYouth Development$25kHealth$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MICHAEL MCCALLISTER CHARITABLE FUND$500,000
PGA FOUNDATION INC$50,000
CAMP STEWART ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$25,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS$20,000
21ST CENTURY PARKS INC$10,000
RACING FOR KIDS$10,000
WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS$5,000
SMILE TRAIN INC$5,000
MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION$1,000
ST MARYS FOOD BANK ALLIANCE$1,000
SAVING GRACIE EQUINE HEALING FNDN INC$1,000
PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 5%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $8k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
CA
UT
KY
VA
AZ
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$181k · 6 repeat orgs$593k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$181k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $552k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • PF
    PGA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +48%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +50%
  • WF
    WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • FL
    Family Legacy Missions International
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -5%
  • CI
    CHILDREN IN NEED FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • ZL
    ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

2
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
3
Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

Our vision is to reimagine everyday giving to help charities. our mission is to enable the world's leading online platforms to create opportunities for everyday charitable giving. in doing so, we ensure our programs are trustworthy,…

Philanthropy
4
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
5
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
6
Techforce Foundation

To champion all students to and through their education and into careers as professional technicians.

Philanthropy
7
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
8
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
9
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
10
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
11
NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
12
Special Forces Foundation

The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Children in Need Foundation. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MICHAEL MCCALLISTER CHARITABLE FUND — $500,000 · OtherTHE MICHAEL MCCALLISTER CHARITABLE FUNDPGA FOUNDATION INC — $66,000 · OtherPGA FOUNDATION INCCAMP STEWART ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Other+9 more — $51,000 · Other+9 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC — $35,000 · EmploymentSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $20,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $18,000 · Human ServicesRACING FOR KIDS — $10,000 · Health21ST CENTURY PARKS INC — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$642,000Education$40,000Employment$35,000Public Safety & Disaster$20,000Human Services$18,000Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPGA FOUNDATION INC — $66,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Legacy Missions International — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS — $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN IN NEED FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRACING FOR KIDS — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget21ST CENTURY PARKS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GRACIE EQUINE HEALING FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 McCallister Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The McCallister Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The McCallister Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph