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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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$70kHealth$24kAnimals$21kYouth Development$10kEducation$9kReligion$8kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$869k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH$6,000
NATIONAL GIRLS COLLABORATIVE$5,000
SISTERS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE$5,000
SEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC$2,500
STERNYS WAY INC$2,500
MOUNT AUBURN PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC$2,500
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF TRANSPLANTATION$2,500
NUYA INC$2,000
SHADY SIDE ACADEMY$1,000
MY BROTHERS TABLE INC$1,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$1,000
AATS FOUNDATION$1,000
THE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION$1,000
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$1,000
CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$134k · 10 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$134k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

90%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AS
    American Society Of Transplantation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +3%
  • NG
    NATIONAL GIRLS COLLABORATIVE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +7%
  • AF
    AATS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SH
    SEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2025 · $3k · revenue 0%
  • NI
    NUYA INC
    one grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I
    one grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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5
Association for Academic Surgery

To conduct medical conferences and disseminate publications updating members on new medical procedures and developments.

Education
6
American Academy of Arts & Sciences

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…

Social Science
7
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
10
The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract Inc

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…

Health
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
5/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Mount Auburn Preservation Foundation Inc: $67,500 · Arts & CultureThe Mount Auburn Preservation Foundation IncSEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $21,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR BIOME…AATS FOUNDATION: $4,500 · HealthAATS FOUNDATIONAmerican Society Of Transplantation: $12,500 · OtherAmerican Society Of …SISTERS OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE: $7,500 · OtherSISTERS OF DIVINE PR…THE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherTHE THORACIC SURGERY…HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1,000 · OtherMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC: $1,000 · Other+2 more: $500 · OtherSTERNYS WAY INC: $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationNUYA INC: $2,000 · EducationSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationNATIONAL GIRLS COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $1,000 · Community ImprovementCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$70,200Health$25,500Other$25,500Education$11,250Youth Development$10,000Community Improvement$1,000Human Services$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Mount Auburn Preservation Foundation Inc: $67,500 over 6y, 53% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $21,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Society Of Transplantation: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GIRLS COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTERNYS WAY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetAATS FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE THORACIC SURGERY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNUYA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Higginson 1908 Foundation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Allan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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