· Private foundation
Allen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HIDDEN HARVEST | $100,000 |
| FOOD RESCUE | $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 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| MICROBINE HLTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| AGAPE COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION | $47,210 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $43,196 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
89 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. 89 of the 173 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Allen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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