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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 FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$30k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$757kEducation$550kEnvironment$259kInternational$207kArts & Culture$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$165kHuman Services$151kCivil Rights$96kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k56 grants · $178k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $235k
$3,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$25,000
NATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE FUND$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$20,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$20,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$20,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$19,000
SOLVE MECFS INITIATIVE$15,000
MAYO CLINIC$15,000
HOPE LODGEAMERICAN CANCER SOC$12,000
PROPUBLICA$12,000
ANN'S PLACE$12,000
OPERA THEATRE ST LOUIS$10,000
red cross$9,000
hmb coastside adult health$7,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $3k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $19k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $2k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $1k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $1k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $1k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $1k → 10%ANN'S PLACE: $12k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%ANN'S PLACE: $11k → 9%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $1k → 10%ANN'S PLACE: $11k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%ANN'S PLACE: $10k → 9%ANN'S PLACE: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%ANN'S PLACE: $10k → 9%ANN'S PLACE: $10k → 9%ANN'S PLACE: $9k → 9%ANN'S PLACE: $8k → 9%BILL WILSON CENTER: $1k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $1k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
AZ
AR
NC
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 97 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.

97 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
15

Total granted

$2.6M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
-22%

Still filing today

41%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
    4× · 2017–2023 · $128k · revenue +29%
  • PO
    PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST
    6× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +164%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • PR
    PROJECT REDWOOD
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • HL
    HOPE LODGEAM CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • NS
    NORTH SHORE-LIJ HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
10
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
Center for Science in the Public Interest

The center for science in the public interest is america's food and health watchdog. cspi envisions a healthy population with reduced impact and burden of preventable diseases and an equitable food system that makes healthy, sustainable…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is California Health Advocates. 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

53 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. 53 of the 122 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
32/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE FUND: $169,000 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCE DEFENSE FUNDTIDES FOUNDATION: $128,500 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $126,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC: $84,000 · OtherSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INCHOPE LODGEAMERICAN CANCER SOC: $74,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $66,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $96,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC+83 more: $830,211 · Other+83 moreUNTIL THERE IS A CURE: $180,000 · HealthUNTIL THER…THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $30,000 · HealthTHE J DAVI…KEVINS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ATTN DINA SABIA: $17,000 · HealthKEVINS COM…VALLEY VIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Health+3 more: $10,200 · HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $109,000 · InternationalMEDECINS S…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $63,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $47,500 · InternationalUNITED STA…+5 more: $20,300 · International+5 moreANNS PLACE INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $67,600 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $11,500 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesKQED INC: $120,950 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC: $29,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $128,055 · EducationDaraja Education Fund: $8,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $7,100 · Education+3 more: $10,150 · EducationPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $117,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $13,500 · Environment+2 more: $5,425 · Environment
Other$1,574,211Health$249,200International$239,800Human Services$172,100Arts & Culture$157,450Education$153,805Environment$135,925

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNTIL THERE IS A CURE: $180,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $128,055 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $120,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $117,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $109,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $96,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANNS PLACE INC: $90,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC: $84,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $67,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $63,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $47,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $29,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $23,200 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation: $20,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKEVINS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ATTN DINA SABIA: $17,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budget1214 FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetKINGS MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIRE BRIGADE INC: $16,900 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $13,599 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVALLEY VIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $11,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA HEALTH ADVOCATES: $11,400 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHAITIAN EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES: $9,230 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetFARMING HOPE: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDaraja Education Fund: $8,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $7,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHENABLE INC: $6,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $4,950 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNational AIDS Memorial Inc: $4,200 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWOODSIDE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,100 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKING THE CHAIN THROUGH EDUCATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING GOD'S CHILDREN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMINAR: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBILL WILSON CENTER: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives: $2,825 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $510 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $300 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds UNTIL THERE IS A CURE ↗
  • Who funds CULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ANNS PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT REDWOOD ↗
  • Who funds ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Womens Sports Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KEVINS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ATTN DINA SABIA ↗
  • Who funds 1214 FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KINGS MOUNTAIN VOLUNTEER FIRE FIRE BRIGADE INC ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Tides FoundationGordon E and Betty I …ImpactassetsincMarin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…Tides CenterAmg Charitable Gift F…National Philanthropi…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA21.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Allen Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allen Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 122 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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