How much does Allen Institute give?

Allen Institute reported 31 itemized grants totaling $19,155,275, out of $21,344,474 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Allen Institute fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (75%), Science & Tech (22%), Education (4%).

Who are Allen Institute's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: University of Washington ($12M), Baylor College of Medicine ($4.5M), The Trustees of Princeton University ($4.5M).

Does Allen Institute fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Allen Institute?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johns Hopkins University.

Where is Allen Institute based?

Allen Institute is based in WA.

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Allen Institute

The mission of the ALLEN INSTITUTE is to unlock the complexities of bioscience and advance our knowledge to improve human health. Using an open science, multi-scale, team-oriented approach. The ALLEN INSTITUTE focuses on accelerating foundational research, (see schedule o) developing standards and models, and cultivating new ideas to…

$21M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 31
Itemized grants FY2024: 24
Organizations funded FY2023: 29%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $19M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $137,464
Largest grant, FY2024: $3,459,548
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 24; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 14
Total assets, FY2024: $367M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Allen Institute funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthScience & TechOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	27	$16M	19%
FY2023	24	$10M	29%
FY2022	18	$5.4M	39%
FY2021	13	$5.8M	46%
FY2020	8	$3.8M	38%
FY2019	12	$4.8M	17%
FY2018	10	$4.4M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$47MScience & Tech$14MEducation$2.3M

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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Washington	$11,529,444	5	n/a
Baylor College of Medicine	$4,493,473	7	0%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$4,453,128	3	0%
California Institute of Technology	$3,495,862	7	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$3,160,846	3	0%
The Broad Institute Inc	$2,666,044	6	0%
University of California Berkeley Foundation	$2,477,320	3	0%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$2,469,089	7	n/a
Rockefeller University	$1,528,041	2	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$1,391,315	2	n/a

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All grantees of Allen Institute by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Washington	$11,529,444	5	n/a
Baylor College of Medicine	$4,493,473	7	0%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$4,453,128	3	0%
California Institute of Technology	$3,495,862	7	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$3,160,846	3	0%
The Broad Institute Inc	$2,666,044	6	0%
University of California Berkeley Foundation	$2,477,320	3	0%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$2,469,089	7	n/a
Rockefeller University	$1,528,041	2	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$1,391,315	2	n/a
Zetta Ai LLC	$1,292,613	2	n/a
New York University	$1,172,600	3	0%
Washington University	$1,077,758	3	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$984,681	3	n/a
Trustees of Boston University	$902,459	2	0%
Duke University	$807,523	2	0%
Seattle Children's Hospital	$754,106	4	0%
Johns Hopkins University	$739,104	2	0%
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laborator	$535,648	2	n/a
J Craig Venter Institute	$516,560	4	19%
University of Chicago	$481,611	1	0%
University of California San Francisco	$319,557	2	n/a
Addgene Inc	$309,784	3	1%
University of California Davis	$294,790	2	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$288,949	2	n/a
University of Minnesota	$282,584	4	n/a
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals	$280,458	5	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$270,219	2	n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$231,590	4	0%
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	$199,957	2	n/a
Arizona State University	$163,201	2	n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska	$155,557	3	n/a
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	$112,843	1	0%
Readcoor Inc	$72,665	1	n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison	$57,500	1	n/a
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College	$25,227	1	0%
Appalachian State University	$24,464	1	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$21,722	1	n/a
Nc State University	$16,895	1	n/a
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc	$14,089	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Allen Institute supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Johns Hopkins UniversityMD13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Allen Institute

How much does Allen Institute give?: Allen Institute reported 31 itemized grants totaling $19,155,275, out of $21,344,474 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Allen Institute fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (75%), Science & Tech (22%), Education (4%).
Who are Allen Institute's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: University of Washington ($12M), Baylor College of Medicine ($4.5M), The Trustees of Princeton University ($4.5M).
Does Allen Institute fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Allen Institute?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johns Hopkins University.
Where is Allen Institute based?: Allen Institute is based in WA.