· Private foundation
Allan 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH | $6,000 |
| SISTERS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL GIRLS COLLABORATIVE | $5,000 |
| SEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANTATION | $2,500 |
| STERNYS WAY INC | $2,500 |
| MOUNT AUBURN PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| NUYA INC | $2,000 |
| THE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $1,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| AATS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SHADY SIDE ACADEMY | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- ASAmerican Society Of Transplantation4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +3%
- NGNATIONAL GIRLS COLLABORATIVE3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +7%
- AFAATS FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SHSEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2025 · $3k · revenue 0%
- NINUYA INCone grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
- MBMY BROTHER'S TABLE INCone grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
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 mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Education and Research
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
To conduct medical conferences and disseminate publications updating members on new medical procedures and developments.
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The objectives of the society for surgery of the alimentary tract are; 1.) to stimulate, foster, and provide surgical leadership in the art and science of patient care; 2.) to teach and research the diseases and functions of the alimentary…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I and the most unlike its peers is The Mount Auburn Preservation Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 The Mount Auburn Preservation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds American Society Of Transplantation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GIRLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds STERNYS WAY INC ↗
- Who funds AATS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NUYA INC ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHER'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds The Higginson 1908 Foundation Inc ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Allan 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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.