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The mission of the ALLEN INSTITUTE is to unlock the complexities of bioscience and advance our knowledge to improve human health.

$21M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $19,155,275, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,344,474 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,189,199 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+14 grants · $18M
$137,464
Median grant
14
States reached
$367M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$3,459,548
THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$3,388,837
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$2,518,196
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$1,939,391
ZETTA AI LLC$1,106,162
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$942,942
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$814,693
THE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$658,856
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$589,446
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$581,098
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$510,914
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$507,779
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$481,611
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$428,247
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$142,483
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $589k → 16%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $449k → 22%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.1M → 14%ZETTA AI LLC: $1.1M → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $508k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $1.0M → 16%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $815k → 7%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $581k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $3.5M → 9%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $428k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $3.4M → 11%THE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $659k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $943k → 16%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $910k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $496k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $843k → 16%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $713k → 7%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $474k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $3.2M → 9%THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $852k → 11%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $742k → 14%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $777k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $2.1M → 9%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $659k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $448k → 16%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $530k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1.2M → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $691k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1.9M → 9%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $482k → 14%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $627k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $566k → 11%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $511k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $623k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $819k → 9%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $591k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $550k → 11%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $513k → 16%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $483k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UC BERKLEY: $1.1M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $424k → 11%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1.9M → 17%THE REGENTS OF THE UC BERKELEY: $1.0M → 10%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $884k → 17%THE REGENTS OF THE UC BERKLEY: $393k → 10%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2.5M → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.7M → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $485k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
MD
AZ
NC
AL
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $2.2M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.9M · 89% · 10 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

East Asia and the Pacific$174k · 8% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$70k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49M · 31 repeat orgs$827k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
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Total granted

$49M
$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-24%

Still filing today

52%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $562k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +49%
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +0%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    one grant, 2019 · $113k · revenue -24%
  • RI
    READCOOR INC
    one grant, 2019 · $73k
  • UO
    University of Wisconsin Madison
    one grant, 2021 · $58k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
6
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
11
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
12
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; the most unlike its peers is Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $5,282,225 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyBaylor College of Medicine: $4,493,473 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineThe Trustees of Princeton University: $4,453,128 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $3,952,866 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3,495,862 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,160,846 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $2,477,320 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,141,295 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,540,987 · Education+8 more: $4,653,905 · Education+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $11,529,444 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $2,469,089 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA …ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1,528,041 · OtherROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,391,315 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDZETTA AI LLC: $1,292,613 · OtherZETTA AI LLCTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $984,681 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $902,459 · Other+14 more: $2,703,708 · Other+14 moreThe Broad Institute Inc: $2,666,044 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $754,106 · HealthAddgene Inc: $309,784 · HealthKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $280,458 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $231,590 · HealthJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $516,560 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $112,843 · Science & Tech
Education$35,651,907Other$22,801,350Health$4,241,982Science & Tech$629,403

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $5,282,225 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $4,493,473 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $4,453,128 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $3,952,866 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3,495,862 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $3,160,846 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $2,666,044 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $2,477,320 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,141,295 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,540,987 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,172,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,077,758 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $902,459 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $807,523 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $754,106 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $739,104 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $516,560 over 4y, 19% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $481,611 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $335,993 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAddgene Inc: $309,784 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $280,458 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $231,590 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $112,843 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $25,227 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFONIA STATE UNIVERSITY EAST BAY FOUNDATION INC: $14,089 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Addgene Inc ↗
  • Who funds KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗

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 Univers…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Allen Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Allen Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Addgene Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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