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Allen Family Foundation Inc

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.

$106k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$58k
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.

Religion$260kHealth$90kEducation$65kAnimals$25kInternational$20kHuman Services$15k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$819k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH$57,500
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
TOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER$8,000
NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY$5,000
FOREVER YOUNG VETERANS$5,000
PORTER LEATH$5,000
MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF$5,000
DESOTO HOPE COMMUNITY CANCER SUPPOR$5,000
SOUTHERN JEWEL DOG RESCUE$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 14%RISON BAPTIST CHURCH: $5k → 15%LAKESHORE CHURCH: $7k → 22%NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $5k → 14%MOVING WITH HOPE: $10k → 9%UNION UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $10k → 17%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10k → 21%FIRST GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 10%LAKESHORE CONGREGATIONAL METHODIST: $10k → 23%RISON BAPTIST CHURCH: $5k → 15%NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $5k → 14%MOVING WITH HOPE: $5k → 9%PIONEER MISSIONS GLOBAL: $5k → 15%MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 17%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10k → 21%FIRST GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 10%NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $5k → 14%UNION UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 17%NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH: $58k → 10%NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $5k → 14%UNION UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%WEST INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $5k → 17%NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH: $25k → 10%PIONEER MISSIONS GLOBAL: $5k → 15%MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 17%MAPLES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $10k → 10%MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 17%NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 10%MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 17%NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 10%MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 17%TOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER: $10k → 10%MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 17%TOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER: $8k → 10%MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $5k → 17%TOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER: $8k → 10%PORTER LEATH: $5k → 17%TOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER: $5k → 10%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUND: $10k → 17%SOUTHERN JEWEL DOG RESCUE: $5k → 10%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUND: $5k → 17%TOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER: $5k → 10%FOREVER YOUNG VETERANS: $5k → 17%TOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER: $5k → 10%JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUND: $5k → 17%GRACEWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 10%GRACEWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH: $10k → 10%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Allen Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in TN; by stated purpose, 35%.

Allen Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$434k · 17 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -90% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$434k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-90%

Still filing today

59%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
ReligionHealthEducationOther
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

  • TOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +287%
  • SH
    SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    5× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • MU
    MAPLES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • LC
    LAKESHORE CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
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
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
2
Wounded Spirits Ministries

The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…

Recreation & Sports
3
First Methodist Church

The methodist church is a global denomination that opens hearts, opens minds and opens doors through active engagement with our world. the mission of the methodist church is to make disciples of jesus christ for the transformation of the…

Religion
4
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
6
Jubal Band Ministries

Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.

Religion
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
9
Todd Worldwide Ministries
Housing & Shelter
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Awakening to God Ministries

Awakening to god ministries (atg) provides love, comfort and hope to people who are suffering in the u.s. and around the world by providing spiritual, physical, mental and emotional solutions. in fiscal year 2024, atg partnered with prayer…

Religion
12
Message to All Nations Man

To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Porter-Leath; the most unlike its peers is Desoto Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH: $102,500 · OtherNEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCHSPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $50,000 · OtherSPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE …NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETYFIRST GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherFIRST GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCHGRACEWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherGRACEWOOD BAPTIST CHURCHSOUTHERN JEWEL DOG RESCUE: $20,000 · OtherSOUTHERN JEWEL DOG RESCUEMOVING WITH HOPE: $15,000 · Other+7 more: $56,650 · Other+7 moreTOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER: $56,000 · ReligionTOGETHER MINISTRY CENT…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSECATALYST MISSIONS INC: $10,000 · ReligionCATALYST MISSIONS INCPIONEER MISSIONS GLOBAL: $10,000 · ReligionPIONEER MISSIONS GLOBA…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $30,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T…DESOTO HOPE: $15,000 · HealthDESOTO HOPEFOREVER YOUNG VETERANS INC: $10,000 · HealthFOREVER YOUNG …THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEWEST INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $5,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY…UNION UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · Education
Other$304,150Religion$96,000Health$60,000Education$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER: $56,000 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetSPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $50,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDESOTO HOPE: $15,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetUNION UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOREVER YOUNG VETERANS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCATALYST MISSIONS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPIONEER MISSIONS GLOBAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEWEST INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPORTER-LEATH: $5,000 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 TOGETHER MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SPEECH & HEARING CENTER OF THE MIDSOUTH DBA MEMPHIS ORAL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DESOTO HOPE ↗
  • Who funds UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOREVER YOUNG VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds CATALYST MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER MISSIONS GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEWEST INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds PORTER-LEATH ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Grace Foundation …Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Grace Foundation of Memphis Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 23 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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