Colorado · Private foundation
Allen Family 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.
- $240k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $934k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Allen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 15 | $235k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $271k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $181k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $128k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $118k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $55k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $94k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $74k | 30% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Seminary | $381,100 | 8 | n/a |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $285,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Prager University Foundation | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Insight in It Together Foundation | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Bible Study Fellowship | $21,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Watermark Community Church | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Denver Rescue Mission | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Westmont College | $8,250 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($149k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Allen Family Foundation 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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Allen Family Foundation
- How much does Allen Family Foundation give?
- Allen Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $240,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Allen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Education (28%), Civil Rights (18%).
- Who are Allen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Denver Seminary ($381k), Alliance Defending Freedom ($285k), Prager University Foundation ($250k).
- Does Allen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Allen Family Foundation 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Allen Family Foundation based?
- Allen Family Foundation is based in CO.
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