· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS | $5,014 |
| ABIDING WORD CHURCH | $3,640 |
| LAKE POINT CHURCH | $3,639 |
| UPPER VALLEY VINEYARD | $3,500 |
| NEW LIFE | $2,955 |
| SOUTHERN OAKS CHURCH | $2,404 |
| MARY IMMACULATE CHURCH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,290 |
| GIVE NEW LIFE FAMILY CHURCH | $1,000 |
| LA PROMISA FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LPLA PROMESA FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +18%
Compassion International Incorporated3× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +16%- IFINVOLVED FOR LIFE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
- ACA CHRISTIAN MINISTRY OF NATL PARKSone grant, 2024 · $4k
- MHMILE HIGH VINEYARD CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
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.
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
To provide food and clothing for the residents in madison, tennessee and surrounding davidson county residents that are in need. we also provide sack lunches to the homeless in the area.
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Manna of life ministries, inc. is a non-for-profit faith based program dedicated to serving the homeless and destitute. our goal is to address their immediate hunger needs and ultimately, to emplower them to reverse their current situation.
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
Bringing hope, healing, and recovery to seattle's homeless through a christ-centered approach.
Metro relief seeks to mobilize, empower, restore, and satisfy the needs of the oppressed. it draws people toward christ as the ultimate provider of their needs, and guides them in transforming their own loves as well as thoise people…
Expressing God's love by reaching out to the hurting and homeless of the Great Lakes Bay Region by providing shelter and care, proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, and establishing Christian disciples among disadvantaged people.
Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 77 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Allen Christian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allen Christian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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