Employee/Agency Grants

The Allstate Foundation offers several grant initiatives to support communities and charitable organizations served by employees of Allstate Insurance Company and affiliated companies, exclusive agents and personal financial representatives. Programs include:

Matching Grant Program for Higher Education

Through this program, applicants may double their personal contributions to eligible institutions of higher education. The Foundation, based on established criteria, will match an eligible personal contribution from $25 to $1,000 per year. The Allstate Foundation does not match contributions to any other organizations.

Helping Hands Grant Program

The Foundation offers special Helping Hands grants to charitable, social or humanitarian organizations where employees volunteer. Applicants can benefit the organization with a monetary gift through this program.

Scholarship Program

After careful consideration and a thorough evaluation of the Scholarship program, The Allstate Foundation has made the very difficult decision to sunset this employee/agency program. In this year of reassessment and focus, the Trustees directed the Foundation team to make even greater societal impact, primarily in teen driving and empowerment for victims of domestic abuse. That meant the scholarship program, which is off mission for the Foundation, would unfortunately have to come to a close.

The Foundation is very proud to have played a small role in helping to educate hundreds of Allstate students over the past decade.

Agency Hands in the Community Grants

Allstate agents find many ways to reach out to the communities where they live and work. To honor their involvement, The Allstate Foundation awards $500 grants to nonprofit organizations where Allstate agents volunteer.

Ray Lynch Award

Each year, The Allstate Foundation honors one special agent for his or her outstanding community work. This award honors Ray Lynch, an agent who gave his Fayetteville, N.C. community exemplary business leadership and personal service for 32 years until his untimely passing in 1999.

In 2007, we presented this award to Vicki Pitmon, an agent from Loveland, Colo. For the past seven years Pitmon has served a unique role in the Loveland community, dedicating more than 12,000 hours as a victim advocate to help victims of domestic abuse and other violent crimes overcome crisis situations, realize safety and get back on their feet. Pitmon received a $5,000 Allstate Foundation grant, which she directed to Alternatives to Violence.