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Allen Foundation Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $470k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED STATES SPACE AND ROCKET CENTER | $600,000 |
| THE GATHERING PLACE OF MILTON INC | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH - ADVANCEMENT | $120,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| MILTON HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $50,000 |
| COPPER VIEW ANGEL FUND | $50,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN DACHSUND RESCUE | $35,000 |
| SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| DYSLEXIA CENTER OF UTAH NEW HEIGHTS INC | $20,000 |
| ITALIAN-AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| CLEMENTINE RANCH | $5,000 |
| KANDU INDUSTRIES INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $605k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
62 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +5%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches4× · 2018–2021 · $150k · revenue +9%
- MHMILTON HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND4× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +160% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- BMBYU MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2017 · $150k
- TITHIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -46%
- BYBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
Provide service dogs for qualified disabled military veterans diagnosed with ptsd, tbi or msi located in the state of wisconsin.
The humane animal welfare society of waukesha county leads the community in animal welfare and assures sanctuary for animals in need.
Underdog pet rescue is an all-breed companion animal rescue and vet clinic based out of dane county, wisconsin. our mission is to find permanent homes for animals in need and to enrich lives by strengthening the connection between animals…
Our mission is to foster compassionate human and animal connections; forge safe, healthy, and thriving communities for animals; provide care and transitional sheltering to animals; provide leadership and guidance to the animal sheltering…
The organization is dedicated to reducing pet overpopulation, eliminating euthanasia as a means of controlling pet overpopulation, and preventing animal suffering in utah.
Humane society providing animal stray service and animal care including adoptions, redemptions, and surrenders for residents located in dodge county, wi and surrounding areas.
The mission of the Idaho Humane Society (IHS) is to advocate for the welfare and responsible care of animals, protect them from neglect and cruelty, and promote humane education, awareness and compassion for all living creatures.
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
The mission of wvhs is to serve the community through education, protection and pet adoptions. we continue our mission by taking care of displaced pets, rescuing injured and lost animals, providing spay/neuter programs, investigating…
Fetch wisconsin rescue is dedicated to the rescue & rehabilitation of unwanted, neglected, and abused dogs found in shelters across the midwest, as well as dogs surrendered by local owners unable to care for them.
Pawsitive perspectives assistance dogs' (pawpads) mission is to facilitate the power of the human-canine bond, and enhance the lives of others, through the process of training assistance dogs and the outcome of placing them with people…
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wisconsin Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 31 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 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 113 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Gathering Place of Milton Inc ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MILTON HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds THIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN AMERICAN CIVIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COPPER VIEW ANIMAL ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN DACHSHUND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Dyslexia Center of Utah New Heights Inc ↗
- Who funds MILTON AREA YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY - ↗
- Who funds MidWest Dachshund Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds OSHKOSH AREA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Canines With a Cause ↗
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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Walter & Jessie Francisco Char Fnd Xxxxx8003 · Burmester Charitable Trust Xxxxx1007 · Claremont S Jackman Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Jpc Foundation · Veridian Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah
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 Trust 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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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