California · Private foundation
Allen Family Charitable Trust
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.
- $413k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2025
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 67
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Allen Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 67 | $412k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 63 | $337k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $317k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $274k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $282k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $323k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $248k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $235k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Until There Is a Cure | $180,000 | 7 | 15% |
| Culinary Institute of America | $128,055 | 4 | 0% |
| Kqed Inc | $120,950 | 8 | 0% |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $117,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $109,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $96,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Anns Place Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc | $84,000 | 9 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $67,600 | 9 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $63,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Allen Family Charitable Trust 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tides Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Tides Center · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Allen Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Allen Family Charitable Trust give?
- Allen Family Charitable Trust reported 69 grants totaling $412,590 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 67 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Allen Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (20%), Environment (10%).
- Who are Allen Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Until There Is a Cure ($180k), Culinary Institute of America ($128k), Kqed Inc ($121k).
- Does Allen Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Allen Family Charitable Trust 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 Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Allen Family Charitable Trust based?
- Allen Family Charitable Trust is based in CA.
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