Michigan · Private foundation
Allen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $168k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Allen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 32 | $168k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $147k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $169k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $220k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $175k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $151k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $135k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harbor Light Community Chapel | $107,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Reliant Mission Inc | $97,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Camp Lael | $58,700 | 4 | 8% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $28,500 | 6 | 2% |
| New Beginnings Ministries | $24,650 | 3 | n/a |
| Gabby's Ladder Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Monroe County Fair Association | $15,500 | 1 | 57% |
| Grace Centers of Hope | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Macomb Symphony Orchestra | $13,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Michigan Dyslexia Institute Inc | $12,550 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 31 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harbor Light Community Chapel | $107,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Reliant Mission Inc | $97,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Camp Lael | $58,700 | 4 | 8% |
| Habitat for Humanity | $28,500 | 6 | 2% |
| New Beginnings Ministries | $24,650 | 3 | n/a |
| Gabby's Ladder Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Monroe County Fair Association | $15,500 | 1 | 57% |
| Grace Centers of Hope | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Macomb Symphony Orchestra | $13,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Michigan Dyslexia Institute Inc | $12,550 | 4 | 1% |
| One Sheep Ministries | $12,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Forgotten Man Ministries | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Radiant Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Harbor Springs Library | $9,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Genesis the Church | $9,000 | 2 | n/a |
| All Nations | $8,750 | 1 | 11% |
| Farming For Our Future Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Jewish Jewels Inc | $6,700 | 4 | 1% |
| Thin Blue Line of Michigan | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Royal Oak Civic Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Judson Center Inc | $4,800 | 1 | 0% |
| International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bear River Health Foundation | $3,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Project Feed the Kids Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Heartbeat of Monroe Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Monroe Area Soccer Association | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
| American Diabetes Association | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Birmingham Public School | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stitching Sisters Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Monroe Police Charities | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| First English Evangelical Lutheran Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($658k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Allen Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Allen Family Foundation
- How much does Allen Family Foundation give?
- Allen Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $168,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Allen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (33%), Human Services (13%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
- Who are Allen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Harbor Light Community Chapel ($107k), Reliant Mission Inc ($97k), Camp Lael ($59k).
- Does Allen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Allen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Allen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include DTE Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Allen Family Foundation based?
- Allen Family Foundation is based in MI.
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