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Allen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARBOR LIGHT COMMUNITY CHAPEL | $29,500 |
| RELIANT MISSION | $17,000 |
| MONROE COUNTY FIREFIGHTERS ASSN | $15,000 |
| PEACEMAKERS INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| ALL NATIONS | $8,750 |
| CRU MINISTRIES | $8,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,100 |
| UNITED WAY OF MONROE | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY HARBOR LIGHT | $5,000 |
| ONE SHEEP MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| PAULA'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MONROE CO | $3,000 |
| OAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS | $3,000 |
| MACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 13 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CLCAMP LAEL4× · 2019–2023 · $59k · revenue +9%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +149%
- GLGABBY'S LADDER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- MMMONROE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $18k
- RERIVER'S EDGE CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $16k
- MCMONROE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue ×73 · 57% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
Beacon of hope's mission is to be god's hand offering christ-centered, inclusive, accessible and professional mental health counseling.
seeking to put Gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope
Midland's Open Door (MOD) operates two crisis shelters, one for women and children and one for men. MOD's programs are designed to meet the immediate needs of homeless individuals by providing a safe and loving environment where each…
It is the mission of Fresh Start Ministry to be the hands and feet of God by serving others in need in Monroe County. we have a mens and womans shelter and a program to help people get back on there feet
To provide home ownership opportunities to low income working families
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
Mfa brings people of faith together, institutions and organizations to build community and address the root causes and results of poverty, violence and division.
We believe that the first six years of a childs life are the most critical. We offer a high quality learning environment to a diverse community of children and families.
To mobilize area churches to transform lives by meeting physical and spiritual needs with the love of Jesus
Meet emergency needs in Southwest Michigan
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judson Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CAMP LAEL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds GABBY'S LADDER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MONROE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MONROE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTERS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds MACOMB SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN DYSLEXIA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds One Sheep Ministries ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN MAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Harbor Springs Library ↗
- Who funds ALL NATIONS ↗
- Who funds Farming For Our Future Inc ↗
- Who funds Jewish Jewels Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Allen Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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