North Carolina · Private foundation
Allen Christian 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.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,955
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,014
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $506k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Allen Christian Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $26k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $26k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $26k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $27k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $28k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $28k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Pointe Baptist Church | $11,244 | 4 | n/a |
| Abiding Word Church Inc | $9,954 | 3 | n/a |
| First Evangelical Church | $8,440 | 4 | n/a |
| Prestonwood Baptist Church | $5,434 | 4 | n/a |
| La Promesa Foundation | $5,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $4,817 | 3 | n/a |
| Joyce Meyer Ministries Inc | $4,188 | 3 | n/a |
| Lakepoint Church | $3,639 | 1 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church | $3,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Upper Valley Vineyard | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Pointe Baptist Church | $11,244 | 4 | n/a |
| Abiding Word Church Inc | $9,954 | 3 | n/a |
| First Evangelical Church | $8,440 | 4 | n/a |
| Prestonwood Baptist Church | $5,434 | 4 | n/a |
| La Promesa Foundation | $5,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $4,817 | 3 | n/a |
| Joyce Meyer Ministries Inc | $4,188 | 3 | n/a |
| Lakepoint Church | $3,639 | 1 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church | $3,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Upper Valley Vineyard | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Involved for Life Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Prestonwood Caring People Network | $2,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Memphis Union Misson | $2,450 | 4 | 0% |
| Adventures in Missions Inc | $2,190 | 1 | n/a |
| Church Health Center of Memphis Inc | $2,080 | 4 | 0% |
| Vail Religious Foundation | $1,745 | 1 | 0% |
| New Life Family Church | $1,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Mid-South Food Bank | $1,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Calvary Rescue Mission | $900 | 2 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Iowa | $583 | 1 | 0% |
| Fathers of St Edmund Southern Missions Inc | $400 | 2 | n/a |
| Reconciliation Outreach Ministries Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Oblate Missionary Society Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Gideons International | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Streets Ministries Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Church of the King Inc | $45 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($82k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Allen Christian Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Dallas Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Allen Christian Foundation
- How much does Allen Christian Foundation give?
- Allen Christian Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $25,942 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Allen Christian Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (64%), Human Services (5%), Health (4%).
- Who are Allen Christian Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lake Pointe Baptist Church ($11k), Abiding Word Church Inc ($10k), First Evangelical Church ($8k).
- Does Allen Christian Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Allen Christian Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Allen Christian Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Allen Christian Foundation based?
- Allen Christian Foundation is based in NC.
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