Michigan · Private foundation
Allen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $37,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 50
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 55% of the organizations Allen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $812k 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 | 43 | $1.8M | 51% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $1.5M | 55% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $1.6M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 50 | $1.8M | 70% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $1.6M | 80% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $493,753 | 5 | n/a |
| Interlochen Center for the Arts | $304,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Michigan State University | $264,256 | 5 | n/a |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $210,712 | 2 | 0% |
| Traverse Bay Area Isd | $193,398 | 4 | n/a |
| Flint Cultural Center Corporation | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Saginaw Valley State University | $123,768 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of the Interlochen Public Library | $120,000 | 4 | 27% |
| West Midland Family Center | $110,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Agape Community Transformation | $106,210 | 3 | 27% |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Allen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Allen Foundation
- How much does Allen Foundation give?
- Allen Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $1,753,448 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Allen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (29%), Health (20%), Education (18%).
- Who are Allen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($494k), Interlochen Center for the Arts ($305k), Michigan State University ($264k).
- Does Allen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Allen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Allen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Consumers Energy Foundation, Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation, Midland Area Community Foundation.
- Where is Allen Foundation based?
- Allen Foundation is based in MI.
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