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Allen 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $721k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| FOOD RESCUE | $100,000 |
| HIDDEN HARVEST | $100,000 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL | $99,718 |
| THE BRIDGE FOOD CENTER | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $62,470 |
| NMC EXTEDED EDUCATION & TRAINING | $60,000 |
| GRAND TRAVERSE AREA CHILDREN'S GARDENT | $60,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY | $54,000 |
| NORTHWEST EDUCATION SERVICES | $51,074 |
| STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| MICROBINE HLTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| AGAPE COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION | $47,210 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $43,196 |
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 (FY21–25, $369k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
52 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 22 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $762k 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
Trustees of Tufts College2× · 2020–2021 · $211k · revenue +39%- WMWEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER3× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +45%
- ACAGAPE COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION3× · 2021–2025 · $106k · revenue +16% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCRAWFORD CO COMM ON AGINGone grant, 2021 · $269k
- ANACTA NON VERBA URBAN YOUTH FARMone grant, 2024 · $150k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2023 · $128k
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.
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
The nashville food project brings people together to grow, cook, and share nourishing food, with the goals of cultivating community and alleviating hunger in our city.
To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.
Gleaners' mission is to be a leader in the fight against hunger. we do this by joining with others to optimize equitable access to nutritious food for those of us facing hunger and working to overcome the conditions causing food insecurity.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…
We believe that food is a human right and that food has the power to bring people together. Our vision is to build a stronger, healthier, and hunger-free Coralville community. Powered by community support, the Coralville Community Food…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association and the most unlike its peers is Mpc Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 173 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 INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds Flint Cultural Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE INTERLOCHEN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WEST MIDLAND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AGAPE COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION ↗
- Who funds NUYA INC ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACTA NON VERBA YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING GROVE ↗
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: Consumers Energy Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Midland Area Community Foundation · Alden and Vada Dow Fund · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · Laura Ludington Hollenbeck Foundation · The Patricia and David Kepler Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Frankenmuth Insurance Foundation · The Carls 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 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.
- Community Clinic Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Common Roots Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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